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People Quotes


"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free."



"Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground."


"Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them."


"The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun."


"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing."


"On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar."


"We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization."


"The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people's minds, in people's heads."


"I just don't talk about who I'm going out with, that's it. It's an odd thing to sit around describing yourself to 10 different people every 5 minutes yet it's kind of therapeutic in a way."


"I have no idea what the U.S. intends to do further there and what would be the reaction of the Iraqi people. I only know that the sole option is to leave Iraq to the Iraqi people."


"People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it."



"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."


"People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency."


"If there is a doubt, I believe that I must put myself forward and undergo the people's judgment."


"We are just interested in dealing with the people we're paying every day. We know federal law allows them to vote in a union at anytime, but we think we can resist that by talking to our own people and giving them enough upside."


"There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant."


"Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people."


"Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel."


"People who are employed in a way they don't like - my heart cries for them."


"It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel."


"It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are considered to be Thai have traveled abroad in a great number."


"But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people."


"I have been extremely touched by these signs of affection on the part of all the Thai people."


"I showed people that it's not about guessing what people can do. It's about saying, 'Here, show me what you can do.'"


"We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ."


"When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa."


"Would you allow a people to come from somewhere else and occupy a part of the United States, and set up an independent state, and, after 50 years, you would not be able to stay on this land?"


"It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer."


"I feel very, very proud that so many people have copied me."


"National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people."


"The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people."


"From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality."


"Our people get profit-sharing checks. I got a report the other day that says that 84 percent of our people participate in our stock purchase program, where they can buy stock at a 15 percent discount."


"In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations."


"It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people."


"I am concerned because even in the past two years that were the jubilee years, I have seen evident signs which show that the people are still in great difficulties, and there are things that still need to be remedied and looked after in many areas."


"National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence."


"And I think I find, I know a lot of people around, in different cities, and so it's not - it might sound strange - but it's not that hard to say good-bye, because I know there's other people where I'm going. I can sort of fit in in a lot of places."


"I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept on reinventing herself."
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