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“My definition of poor are those who need too much. Because those who need too much are never satisfied.”
Source : “Can Uruguay's Pauper President Be an International Role Model?” by Orion Jones, bigthink.com. 2017. 
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“People wanna say that they're part Native American or mixed, or anything other than black. We're raised to believe that there's something better about not being fully black, something eccentric about it. I'm saying I used to tell girls that I was mixed, which is a bold-faced lie!”
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“I work on stories rather than individual pictures.”
Source : "Sebastião Salgado's best shot". Interview with Leo Benedictus, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2009.
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“If you're going to be an artist, you have to create music that moves you, and to not try to fit in so much with what's happening around you. It's a career choice.”
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“When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you're living a less performed life.”
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“It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.”
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“Sentient compassion is a must; it has to be developed in order to alleviate cruelty and thoughtless acts. That won't happen if you develop a sense of compassion. You'll have that connectedness, that knowing that the same life that's in you is in every other being, so you're not going to mishandle life.”
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“If you're a short-seller, that's a cacophony of negative reinforcement. You're basically told that you're wrong in every way imaginable every day. It takes a certain type of individual to drown that noise and negative reinforcement out and to remind oneself that their work is accurate and what they're hearing is not.”
Source : "Interview with Jim Chanos". Graham & Doddsville, a Columbia Business School investment newsletter,
