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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."
"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."
"Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually."
"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."
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"Part of keeping space open is not to try to choose a form - to spend more time thinking about content, and let form take care of itself."
"Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point."
"When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained."
"To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner."
"My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility."
"Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way."
"I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it."
"I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get the sweet part without the bitter."
"To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'."
"If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing."
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