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People Quotes



"Well, Hale was one of the first people who suggested to President Johnson that there should be a commission."


"I don't go to the cool, trendy restaurants. I go to either the holes in the wall or the super-fancy restaurants where there are no cool people."


"Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances."


"We couldn't generalize on the people. Some of them were known to be tough guys and they didn't say much, but some of them were kind of soft-headed, but they did that. That was an East German film."


"There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them."


"I've always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you're about."


"You are not content with the vast millions of tribute we pay you annually under the operation of our revenue law, our navigation laws, your fishing bounties, and by making your people our manufacturers, our merchants, our shippers."


"The American people do not have the information upon which they can hold the administration and responsible agencies accountable. I call that a coverup."


"Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones."


"There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag."


"The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it."


"The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better."


"With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts."


"People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked."


"It's a bit loose and the people in my group have got other groups. They don't have to have a total allegiance to me. I think that's really a bit weird and showing some weird insecurity."


"You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility."


"Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles."


"Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong."


"I meet with people in the industry on an ongoing basis."


"I found that I could make people laugh doing people like Shirley Bassey. Fortunately it worked."



"Studies have shown people listen to TV than watch it."


"The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right."


"Duke came to us. They volunteered to come to us and made a number of suggestions to some people on my staff. I don't know how I would characterize them, but there have been some discussions going back and forth between Duke and members of my staff."



"There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process."


"Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels."


"The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together."



"Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes."



"I do like to shock and surprise people. When it's all in good fun, of course."


"We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We're inheriting a situation - when people go back and study major banking crises a quarter century from now, the one that America developed in 2007 and 2008 is going to be one of those crises."


"I choose to do unattractive people, because then I can pretend they think they're attractive."
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