"For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past down to people without bothering to involve people, listen to their views or give them information about what we are doing and why."

-- Peter Mandelson

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“A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.”
“No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.”
“You can't choose your potential, but you can choose to fulfill it.”
“Don't be too concerned about what others think of you. It's what you think about yourself that matters!”
“Personally, I think they killed the bear because they were afraid of it. That s what people do, kill the things they re afraid of.”
“In a way, the whole music industry is just catering to the inherent esteem issues all these artists have - it lays it all out on the line and baits the artist, like a light baits a mosquito. And you go right into it. With every comment on the internet, you go up, you go down, and it's a big shitshow full of uneducated people.”
“I didn't relate well to people my age. Maybe the truth was that I didn't relate well to people, period. Even my mother, who I was closer to than anyone else on the planet, was never in harmony with me, never on exactly the same page. Sometimes I wondered if I was seeing the same things through my eyes that the rest of the world was seeing through theirs. Maybe there was a glitch in my brain.”
“There is one class of mind that loves to lean on rules and definitions, and another that discards them as far as possible. A faddist will generally ask for a definition of faddism, and one who is not a faddist will be impatient of being asked to give one.”

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