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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."
100
"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me."
92
"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."
79
"Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground."
63
"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."
61
"People who are employed in a way they don't like - my heart cries for them."
57
"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."
56
"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."
56
"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."
56
"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing."
52
"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."
51
"If there is a doubt, I believe that I must put myself forward and undergo the people's judgment."
49
"I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but I still have my whole career ahead of me."
47
"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."
47
"There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant."
46
"After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity."
45
"We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ."
45
"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."
44
"Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse."
44
"It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer."
43
"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."
42
"Some people have active imaginations, but they don't know me and they're wrong if they think they do."
42
"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."
42
"Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice."
42
"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?"
41
"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."
41
"The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world."
41
"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."
41
"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."
41
"This has been a great victory for the Venezuelan people."
41
"We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination."
41
"It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel."
40
"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."
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