People Quotes
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The more you make people alike, the more competition you have. Competition is based on the principle of conformity. (p. 135)
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I was raised in a tribal situation, among cannibal people.
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Some of Donald Trump's gifts that obviously allowed him to execute one of the biggest political upsets in history, those are ones that hopefully he will put to good use on behalf of all the American people.
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A lot of people have been overexposed. Where people are fed up. I pray that that never happens with me.
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It's not surprising that truly humanitarian manifestos originate frequently in minority circles or with people whose consciences are troubled by the problems of minorities.
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People have come to this country from everywhere, and people from everywhere have made America great. Our immigration policy should reflect that truth, and our elected officials, including our President, should respect it.
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If you're going to be honest with yourself, you have to admit that you go into show business wanting people to talk about you and wanting everyone to know who you are. But that also means there are going to be a whole bunch of people who don't like you. No matter who you are.
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Oddly, for a book to do well merely because people like it is surprisingly rare.
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I hope people will like my novels after I'm dead. And I hope my children think about me in good ways, by and large.
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You know, different people are going to react different ways. And I don't think we should be intolerable because people do things a little differently.
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In teaching color, you teach people how to look something and see the tone in it and break it down to be able to paint it and reproduce that color. But then, I'm psychedelic, so I look at color differently. I like colors that are in contrast with one another, so that they flicker back and forth.
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I'm really interested in how people feel out new friendships, and at the start of college, that's really important.
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Enlightened legislation or enlightened social activity of whatever kind, does play into the hands of people with agendas of their own. If you legalize euthanasia, you provide a field day for people who like killing other people.
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It's all about making an experience. You go to the movies to see something you've never seen before. You want to get different people out there with different voices. So you see awesome huge spectacle or just a small unbelievable story you've never seen before.
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Portland is often trumpeted as being one of America's coolest, hippest cities. I've been to Portland many times, and I'm always like, "Yeah it's cool and hip, but also, where are all the black people? Why is this city so cool and hip, and also keeping the black people away?"
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I want to write books that can truly become a legacy and bring benefits to people.
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The American people frankly have been, over many, many years - to be blunt - fat, dumb and happy. If they want their children to compete with children in India, China or Korea, they better get them a far better education.
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You can't change the way people think, all you can do is give them a tool, the use of which will change their thinking.
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I believe that the kids, young people should have an opportunity to have Oscar nominated actors in their movies too.
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Andalways embrace things, people earthsky stars, as I do, freely and withthe appropriate sense of space.
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I think writers just can't come up with any new words for what we're doing, because we're not 'retro-' anything. Like, in 'Gold and a Pager,' we're not talking about what was current - pagers were cool to us, but they never stopped being cool; people just stopped using them.
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Jamming with other people will create energy and excitement that you can feed off, and which will help push you to do things you'd never dream of doing by yourself.
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Not everybody gets a chance to go fly around the country and spend time in places with people who aren't like them, where, again and again, you realize we're all generally alike.
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The reason so few people are successful is no one has yet found a way for someone to sit down and slide uphill.
