If you don't give power to the words that people throw at you to hurt you, they don't hurt you anymore - and you actually have power over those people. (Stephen Colbert)

If you don't give power to the words that people throw at you to hurt you, they don't hurt you anymore - and you actually have power over those people.

Stephen Colbert

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