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People Quotes
"People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year."
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"Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out."
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"Let's cooperate and challenge the administration to cooperate with us because within the administration there are also moderates and people who are not fully comfortable with the tendencies that have prevailed in recent times."
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"The Republican Party is a much bigger tent than people give it credit for. We have a lot of what I guess you all call moderate Republicans."
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"It was an unknown thing, a lot of people had very bad trips and I like to be in control."
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"I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling."
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"Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them."
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"The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that. I think we absolutely have rights because there are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire."
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"Casting is everything. If you get the right people they make you look good."
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"If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are."
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"Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking."
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"I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually."
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"The entertainment industry is encouraging young people to defy and deceive their parents."
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"I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people."
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"I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don't always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends."
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"I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak."
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"You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in."
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"But this is an occupational hazard of being a scientist. You say this is the best information I have and then you realize that not everyone is going to read the footnotes or the whole book, so people are going to get the wrong impression."
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"When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century."
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"People enjoy sitting back knowing they won't hear a lot of four-letter words."
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"I can remember standing in the middle of the field after the race and seeing the American flag raised and hearing 'The Star Spangled Banner' and all the people singing it. Then I walked off the field and just kind of enjoyed the feeling."
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"I am very proud to be a part of the Livestrong Foundation. I am maybe only a member but I give everything I can to be sure that people understand that cancer is a disease for everybody - not only in France, in Europe, in Asia, it is all over the world. We must fight together, we must make something to fight the cancer, we must Livestrong."
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"Surveys have shown going back as far as you and I can remember that people have perceived a leftward tilt in the basic coverage that they get on TV news."
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"When people think it's successful, I'm grateful. When they don't - OK, I'll try again."
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"That's one of the great things about DVD: In addition to reaching people who didn't catch the movie in theaters, you get to have this interaction of sorts."
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"I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other."
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"If I have stepped on some people at times because I am at the top, it couldn't be helped. What should I do if someone gets hurt... retire?"
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"Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people."
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"Back then, we didn't know we were poor, and people were more proud then."
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"Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it."
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"But nowadays hymns are the norm, because people don't have much else to sing."
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"People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."
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"Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting."
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"Do you know, that is the root of the whole trouble - has been one of the roots at any rate - is people hearing things and then imagining some more and magnifying it and multiplying it."
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"I want people to like me. They don't have to always like my characters, you understand."
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"And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people."
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