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People Quotes
"People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail."
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"Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think."
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"People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything."
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"The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants."
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"There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne, the great master swordsman and brilliant stunt double."
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"People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite."
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"I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated."
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"People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately."
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"I believe that this is not only the view of the people on both sides of the Strait. It is also the common expectation of the US, Japan and the international community."
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"I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies."
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"I don't see a groundswell of people willing to raise gas taxes right now. That leaves fuel economy standards as the only effective tool we have as a nation to make a dent in our dangerous and ever growing consumption of oil."
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"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members."
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"I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world."
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"We know that if we're going to remain economically competitive in the world, and viable as a civic democracy, that we're going to have to get more people educated to higher levels."
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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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"Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me."
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"However, the resources at our people's disposal are very few and we require assistance from the neighboring Arab countries, and for weapons in order to fight the enemy."
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"I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things."
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"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."
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"Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal."
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"It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves."
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"And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I'd be wearing a big T shirt, a big baggy T shirt and loose jeans. You know, to try and show people that there was more to me than just that."
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"Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade."
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"Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble."
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"I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then."
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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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"When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic."
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"People hear that and say I'm being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthful about what I'm doing and what I'm doing is channeling."
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"Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet."
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"You've got a beautiful country with so many beautiful people and so many beautiful things happening and stuff like that lets it down. I feel sad for them."
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"Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane."
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"It used to be that you knew your neighbors and maybe your coworkers - the people in your physical vicinity."
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"I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of credence."
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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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