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People Quotes
"Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade."
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"I don't think I'm bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this."
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"You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go."
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"People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people."
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"The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way down at the bottom in terms of total numbers and growth."
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"People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way."
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"Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year."
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"When you won that title you should know now that you are representing a whole country or nation with your actions and you are now in a glass house or under a microscope and you better be ready to make your people proud."
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"The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it."
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"There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon."
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"If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants."
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"I did a voice for Odo, but people don't recognize you by your voice."
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"We do this basically for ourselves. People appreciate it, which is cool, but I think they appreciate that we're doing it for ourselves. We're doing it our way, and how people like it is not up to us. We like it."
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"People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity. Clean vulgarity can be very shocking and that, in my view, gives greater involvement."
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"Actually, I think most people accept the existence of qualia."
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"Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours."
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"I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband."
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"Americans are somehow obsessed with her, and something about me hit a spot with people in Japan."
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"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me."
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"I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious!"
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"People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't."
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"The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children."
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"I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for."
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"If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next."
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"Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies."
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"Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animals as cats and cows and raccoons. They're like the people who become successful and then don't want to be reminded of the old neighborhood."
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"There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority."
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"People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film."
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"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
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"It really bothers me when people don't use coasters. Particularly on my table."
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"It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep."
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"One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing."
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