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People know there is a difference between what you do and what you accept. There is a difference between me knowing that people swear, me hearing people swear and me swearing, and everyone accepting that this is something you can do as much as you like.

— Steven Pinker

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.

— Nathan Lane

I just have a way about me where people know that they don't tell me what to do, they kind of just wait for me to do it.

— Estelle

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

— Margaret Mead

There's a gap between people knowing what I do and really believing that I still do that - and wondering what it is I really do.

— Bill Cosby

Generally speaking, I, like anyone else who does anything publicly, like it when people like what I do, and would like to hear as much.

— John Hodgman

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

— William J. H. Boetcker

The people who truly know me know what I'm like. There have been people who try to say things that aren't fair, and I check them. And then they don't like me because I checked them.

— Kobe Bryant

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

— Eminem

I think it's a given that people know what I can do vocally.

— Christina Aguilera

I don't expect to try to get people to like everything I do. I want them to respect what I do.

— Roger Goodell

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