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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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I'd like to be a president [known] as somebody who liberated 50 million people and helped achieve peace.

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You know, it's fashionable right now for people to be cynical. We go in cycles like this and right now a lot of people are saying, 'Oh, America is doing terribly' and 'What are we going to do?'

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A good coach encourages the same type of resilience in the people they work with. They encourage them to take risks. If the risk results in failure, they help all people to learn from the mistake and then go on to try another way.

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It is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.

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Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

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The economy is growing, productivity is high, trade is up, people are working. It's not as good as we'd like, but -- and to the extent that we find weakness, we'll move.

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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]

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I set out to really build this universe of interfaith connectedness, where people could see that other people in different parts of the world are very much like them.

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Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.

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Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as periods of great human affirmation. It's been associated with the power of the word, with the sacred, with magic and transformation, with the oral narratives that help a people cohere.

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Americans practice different faiths in churches, synagogues, mosques and temples. And many good people practice no faith at all.

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I think people underestimate the value of collaboration, especially for writers.

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Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so.

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I would say of all the things that have happened during the course of my presidency the knowledge that you have hundreds of thousands of people who have been killed, millions who have been displaced, [makes me] ask myself what might I have done differently along the course of the last five, six years.

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No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.

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It is better not to make merit a matter of reward Lest people conspire and contend.

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People learn twenty-five percent from their teacher, twenty-five percent from listening to themselves, twenty-five percent from their friends, and twenty-five percent from time.

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Most people in America understand that the rich people hire good accountants and figure out how not to necessarily pay all the taxes.

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I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority.

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