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People Quotes


"The Coalition for International Justice estimated that 450,000 people in Darfur have died since the deadly genocide began some three years ago."


"I am not for raising taxes on the American people in a soft economy."


"I think that this liberal progressive agenda is not the thing that the American people want and it's antithesis to who we are as a constitutional republic."


"I just go in my back garden. It's the only place where people don't come and bother you."



"I've got a lot of stamina and I enjoy people, so having lots of people around doesn't freak me out."


"Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing."


"Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard."


"I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people."



"Whatever happened to a sense of idealism and embracing an idea that will help people and, in this case, children?"


"Again, like I said, we're not trying to censor anyone. If you think drugs are cool, fine. Make that movie. We are not going to stop you, or try to stop you, but we would encourage other people to be a bit more responsible about their portrayal of drug usage."


"People were so keen to get investment. In those days, there was quite significant unemployment in Northern Ireland, and that had been the general pattern in Northern Ireland for many, many years."


"It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured."


"Before I joined the project most of the English people with whom I had made personal contacts were left wing and affected to some degree or other by the same kind of philosophy."


"Influenza is a serious disease. Kids die of influenza, both in Japan and the United States, and if you give a drug to people who are at risk of dying, there will be people who die who got the drug,... There is no signal the drug is doing it as opposed to the disease."


"People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange."


"The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live."



"So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award."


"Jobs that cannot be delivered must never be promised. It's unfair to raise people's hopes that way."


"People enjoy our meat and our poultry, as I do as a consumer."


"Lots of people think it was Jimmy Page who had the first fuzzbox. It wasn't, No! it wasn't me either."



"I left Motown because of the regime of people who were there."



"I've been told I'm a player, but people still don't always return my calls."


"All the wrong people remember Vietnam. I think all the people who remember it should forget it, and all the people who forgot it should remember it."


"When people approach me about my films it is usually to tell me how much they hate them."


"I was walking around legally blind. Now I have 20-20 vision. I can't believe I spent so many years blurry, but I think that coincides with how I was feeling. Now I notice if people are watching me, but I also smile right back if someone waves, which helps."


"Anytime you do something from the heart, people just know it."


"This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky."


"I think we're in good shape, but the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina is in some small way mitigated by the fact that we now have more people talking about it, thinking about it and working on it, so that we will be more vigilant and ready."


"A budget should reflect the values and priorities of our nation and its people."


"I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery."


"Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything."


"My job is not babysitting people; my job is focusing on making the best band I possibly can."



"I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we."


"Some people are naturally thin and some people are naturally heavier. It doesn't mean that bigger is healthier, or much thinner is healthier, it's on an individual basis."


"At this point, I don't listen to other people too much. I'm not really that affected by anyone."
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