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People Quotes
"Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people."
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"You can't imagine how much detail we know about brains. There were 28,000 people who went to the neuroscience conference this year, and every one of them is doing research in brains. A lot of data. But there's no theory. There's a little, wimpy box on top there."
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"I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster."
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"Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being."
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"In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas."
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"I never like being touched, ever. People used to say I held my breath when they were hugging me. I still do."
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"The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty."
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"They know that the column resonates in the community. They know that people like it, and yet they don't have room for one column once week that consistently got it right."
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"I think the blues will always be around. People need it."
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"I never look at a note. I just roam the stage. The people do not want to leave."
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"It's interesting, the more successful you become the more people want to give you stuff for nothing."
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"If people can't deal with their problems, they numb themselves a little bit."
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"We still seem to trigger that intensity in people, which was quite incredible."
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"My mouth has a tendency to get me into trouble, but because I'm so small and I take on people who are lager than me. If someone punched me, I'd get my drummer beat them up."
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"But Jesus changes your attitude towards yourself and towards other people."
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"Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder."
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"Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave."
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"Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read."
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"I'm not a public figure at all. I don't really go out a lot to places where there are people like those who sit at the bottom of your driveway."
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"I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize."
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"I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that."
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"People expect a lot more from someone they think looks interesting. It's a burden."
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"I've seen a lot of real out-of-line attitudes since I have been in the WWF and those people are still there or are getting a second or third chance or something like that."
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"The great musicians are those who can reach people, who can make people feel something."
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"People like the idea of the trio and so I did mostly trio."
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"People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do."
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"If I go to a restaurant, other people stare. The meal is ruined."
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"We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court."
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"There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musicians."
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"People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back."
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"Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people."
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"The supply of leaks is very large. It's helpful for us to have more people in this industry. It's protective to us."
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"I am honest and want to hear what the people have to say. I do not want to enrich myself in this job."
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"There's so many wonderful gospel people out there, and I don't necessarily want to compete with those people."
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"As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous."
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"My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation."
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