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"We ought to know that all people are not the same and so we must not expect the same attitude from all people. Different people behave differently and that is what makes different people different."

"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"

"Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States."

"People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else."

"Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them."

"It only takes five people in black robes to determine such crucial issues for our country as abortion, pornography, same-sex 'marriage,' and religious liberties."

"It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge."

"I think that people ran out of oxygen and don't really know what happened up there, maybe some of them just made things up because they weren't sure what had happened."
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"Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt."


"My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility."


"If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum."


"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."


"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."


"We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under."


"The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count."


"To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain."


"When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained."
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