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People like Clyde McPhatter who came out of the black churches - like Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin - were all church singers who became great pop singers because gospel singing is very close to the blues.

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If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

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Most people who serve in Washington have been trained either as lawyers or as political operatives--professions that tend to place a premium on winning arguments rather than solving problems.

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I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence.

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A faith gained in strength only when people were willing to lay down their lives for it.

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Let people take death seriously, and not travel far.

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I feel like my life is something purposeful. Many people have told me that after they listen to my talk, some point which I made, they got certain ideas and their whole life is changed. They are happier.

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It is no coincidence that one cardinal rule in brainwashing is to remove from the victim all photographs of himself and people he has known.

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Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.

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I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.

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And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning.

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I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones.

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Tell people - and they may forget... show them - they may remember... but involve them and they will understand.

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I guess if people all followed the basic principles of their own religions, they would love everybody instead of hating half the world.

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People demand freedom only when they have no power.

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In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

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My work is always a ready-made... cultural, political, or social, and also it could be art - to make people re-look at what we have done, its original position, to create new possibilities.

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I've actually found - especially doing my cabaret show - I'm connecting with people in a way I haven't connected with them. I've found that when you're open and honest, people respond to that, whatever you're being open and honest about. You could then, when you lay that as the groundwork, say, "Here I am. This is what I think. I come in peace." Then you're able to push out, to be able to talk about more things. And that's been a really heartening thing about my life, actually.

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There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.

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People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet.

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