Highlights

People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.

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...before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

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I'm hard put, sometimes - baby, it's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you.

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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

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No, everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowin’.

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"I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks."

“If there’s just one kind of folks, why can’t they get along with each other? If they’re all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other?"

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Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles ‘em.