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What draws me to family... if I were a psychiatrist, I'd say an enormous amount of unresolved personal material. If I were an anthropologist, I'd say families are at the root of social structures - they shape our identity, our belief systems - and so I find them fascinating. Also, I love the idea that families have narratives that are essentially the family story that is passed along generation to generation - and the rifts start when people question the story.

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I've seen that many times in rural African villages where people have nothing but a hut and a bowl. The joy in the children's eyes is something you wish you could package and bring back to America.

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Don't worry about people from your past there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.

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For the political leader the religious doctrines and institutions of his people must always remain inviolable; or else has no right to be in politics, but should become a reformer, if he has what it takes!

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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , People Quotes , Generosity Quotes

In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever. The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit. And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet; we're so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.

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It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

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Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.

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You don't really stay attached to things. Life goes on, so you don't really sit around and think about how they are relevant to other people. You hope that whatever you create will be [relevant].

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We live in this world of tweeting, and social media, and anti-social media, and all the rest, so no matter what you say, there is going to be what people say is a firestorm. I don't know what a firestorm is.

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The extraordinary lies in the path of ordinary people.

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The sort of seeing cruelty and callousness of that sort from young people is heartbreaking.

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No matter who you are or what you do, there will always be some people who don't like you

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I care what 51 percent of the people think about me.

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I owe my solitude to other people.

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In order for the U.N. to be effective, there must be consequences if people thumb their nose at the United Nations Security Council. And we will work with people on the Security Council to achieve that objective.

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People either buy nuclear power, nuclear reactors from outside, and don't train their own men, or they just don't go into nuclear power at all, they are so afraid of it.

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Ideas don't desert you; ideas aren't treasonous to you, but people can be.

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If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.

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I do not interfere, and people become rich by themselves.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , People Quotes , Taoism Quotes