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"I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak."
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"Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution."
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"Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community."
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"The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people."
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"It is often said that the magnitude of a people is measured by their ability to know how to win."
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"Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body."
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"People are essentially red meat. They are."
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"I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging."
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"The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people."
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"In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved."
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"My sexuality has never been a problem to me but I think it has been for other people."
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"If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama."
God
"If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves."
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"We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them."
People
"It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it."
Act
"Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice."
Courage
"They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves."
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"You lose your manners when you are poor."
Manners
"Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?"
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"Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight."
Success
"It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour."
People
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