“There are two kinds of people in this world. 'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person.”

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The speaker is contrasting self-centered people with people who think in terms of shared effort and community. The last sentence says the speaker identifies with cooperation rather than individualism.

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Originally said in English.

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About Clint Eastwood

American actor and filmmaker

Clint Eastwood is an American actor and filmmaker, known for a screen career that made him a lasting cultural icon of masculinity. Born Clinton Eastwood Jr., he first found success in the Western television series Rawhide, then rose to international fame in the mid-1960s. He is especially associated with Sergio Leone’s Dollars Trilogy, where he played the “Man with No Name,” and with the Dirty Harry films, in which he portrayed Harry Callahan across the 1970s and 1980s. In 1986, he was elected mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, and served for two years.

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