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"I choose to do unattractive people, because then I can pretend they think they're attractive."
Amy Sedaris
"I choose to do unattractive people, because then I can pretend they think they're attractive."
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"We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people."
Sherrod Brown
"We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people."
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"I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts."
Trisha Goddard
"I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts."
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"I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model - because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else."
Britney Spears
"I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model - because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else."
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"He doesn't make it so complicated but just really allows the lyric to come through even though there's a lot of production going on. I think that's the key and that's the magic, it's making sure that people could still connect with the lyrics while they're on the dance floor."
Deborah Cox
"He doesn't make it so complicated but just really allows the lyric to come through even though there's a lot of production going on. I think that's the key and that's the magic, it's making sure that people could still connect with the lyrics while they're on the dance floor."
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"I race to win, not to please people."
Bernard Hinault
"I race to win, not to please people."
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"A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really."
Lenny Kravitz
"A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really."
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"People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong."
Diane Sawyer
"People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong."
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"The good news, though, is that I find in my political travels that people, as regular citizens, are more interested than ever in getting together and having discussions. They want to hear about other viewpoints that differ entirely from what the administration is putting out."
Jim Hightower
"The good news, though, is that I find in my political travels that people, as regular citizens, are more interested than ever in getting together and having discussions. They want to hear about other viewpoints that differ entirely from what the administration is putting out."
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"But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty."
Amy Sedaris
"But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty."
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"It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not."
Jean de la Bruyere
"It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not."
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"For about seven years. I really like it there. There are a lot of great musicians. The scene is very open. A lot of stuff going on. People's ears are really open, they are not closed. A lot of scenes here, people just get tunnel vision and are into one thing."
John Zorn
"For about seven years. I really like it there. There are a lot of great musicians. The scene is very open. A lot of stuff going on. People's ears are really open, they are not closed. A lot of scenes here, people just get tunnel vision and are into one thing."
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"We had a huge audience, we sold truckloads of albums. If we do something that's cool, people will listen to it. If we don't, we would be selling people short."
Andy Taylor
"We had a huge audience, we sold truckloads of albums. If we do something that's cool, people will listen to it. If we don't, we would be selling people short."
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"Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information."
John Pomfret
"Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information."
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"I have a great interest in a number of things, perhaps too many. I admire people who seem to concentrate on only one fixed discipline to the exclusion of almost everything else."
Tom Glazer
"I have a great interest in a number of things, perhaps too many. I admire people who seem to concentrate on only one fixed discipline to the exclusion of almost everything else."
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"I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people."
Marc Almond
"I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people."
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"We also have a conference call feature where up to five people can talk on one Skype call."
Niklas Zennstrom
"We also have a conference call feature where up to five people can talk on one Skype call."
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"There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans."
Dan Hicks
"There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans."
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"This is about black people selling out other black people."
John Mellencamp
"This is about black people selling out other black people."
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"You don't stay married for 35 years by accident. I think that that's willful and intentional and something that both people really want."
Ashley Judd
"You don't stay married for 35 years by accident. I think that that's willful and intentional and something that both people really want."
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"I don't like that, because there are a lot of people whose works I admire as actors or actresses, or musicians. And you know, I've been a big fan of different musicians or actors."
Laura Bush
"I don't like that, because there are a lot of people whose works I admire as actors or actresses, or musicians. And you know, I've been a big fan of different musicians or actors."
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"We watched the U.S. citizenship immigration services web site in March. They had six million, two hundred thousand hits, and two million people downloaded applications for citizenship. So what we're doing is attempting to help people in that process."
Luis Gutierrez
"We watched the U.S. citizenship immigration services web site in March. They had six million, two hundred thousand hits, and two million people downloaded applications for citizenship. So what we're doing is attempting to help people in that process."
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"People don't understand that that's really what it is. They're looking for a magic phone number or something. And to a certain extent, I understand that, because comedy is treated so much as a stepping stone by a lot of people."
Todd Barry
"People don't understand that that's really what it is. They're looking for a magic phone number or something. And to a certain extent, I understand that, because comedy is treated so much as a stepping stone by a lot of people."
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"Comedy is much more challenging, because you have to have the same level of belief but you have to make people laugh, and that's definitely a challenge."
Jenna Elfman
"Comedy is much more challenging, because you have to have the same level of belief but you have to make people laugh, and that's definitely a challenge."
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"I figured the people who liked the sort of thing I was doing would come see it. If it was only 200 then that was alright and if it was 2000 then that is alright as well. I wasn't really interested in the big numbers; I was just interested in some numbers."
George Thorogood
"I figured the people who liked the sort of thing I was doing would come see it. If it was only 200 then that was alright and if it was 2000 then that is alright as well. I wasn't really interested in the big numbers; I was just interested in some numbers."
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"You live with the fear people might find out. Then you actually have the courage to tell people and they go, I don't think you are gay. It's enough to drive you crazy."
Portia de Rossi
"You live with the fear people might find out. Then you actually have the courage to tell people and they go, I don't think you are gay. It's enough to drive you crazy."
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"When I go in to see people - and I sell an occasional ad now - I never say, 'Help me because I am black' or 'Help me because I am a minority.' I always talk about what we can do for them."
John H. Johnson
"When I go in to see people - and I sell an occasional ad now - I never say, 'Help me because I am black' or 'Help me because I am a minority.' I always talk about what we can do for them."
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"Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish."
Sam Walton
"Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish."
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"I think that people have to have to have a sense of what ideas are one the progressive side, the Democratic side in order ultimately to be effective in the political world."
John Podesta
"I think that people have to have to have a sense of what ideas are one the progressive side, the Democratic side in order ultimately to be effective in the political world."
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"We were always surrounded by people who knew us very well and cared about us."
Mary-Kate Olsen
"We were always surrounded by people who knew us very well and cared about us."
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"In other words, unlike some people with new theories, we will go out, we'll go into a school and we get products and the products are evaluated, whether it's by teachers or others. The scores are quantified and then we compare performances."
Robert Sternberg
"In other words, unlike some people with new theories, we will go out, we'll go into a school and we get products and the products are evaluated, whether it's by teachers or others. The scores are quantified and then we compare performances."
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"I've never wanted to play bank managers and real people particularly."
Richard O'Brien
"I've never wanted to play bank managers and real people particularly."
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"It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell."
Helen Reddy
"It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell."
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"I wonder why I keep playing such intelligent people?"
John Glover
"I wonder why I keep playing such intelligent people?"
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"The one thing that I have been struck with, after coming here to Congress is, how many people in Washington, D.C. talk about job loss like they are talking about the weather, or a natural disaster like an earthquake."
Stephen F. Lynch
"The one thing that I have been struck with, after coming here to Congress is, how many people in Washington, D.C. talk about job loss like they are talking about the weather, or a natural disaster like an earthquake."
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"Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end."
Graeme Le Saux
"Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end."
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"People have lots of misconceptions about me. My mum, who is half French and half Spanish, gets outraged when I'm called quintessentially English. I owe my looks to my mum-which was 90 percent of getting my first job. And, some people would argue, 90 percent of my entire career."
Helena Bonham Carter
"People have lots of misconceptions about me. My mum, who is half French and half Spanish, gets outraged when I'm called quintessentially English. I owe my looks to my mum-which was 90 percent of getting my first job. And, some people would argue, 90 percent of my entire career."
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"The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark."
Pam Brown
"The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark."
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"People care and are willing to help me out my desperate circumstances."
Sam Worthington
"People care and are willing to help me out my desperate circumstances."
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"What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other."
Barbra Streisand
"What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other."
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"It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away."
Saad Hariri
"It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away."
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"My specialties are corpses, unconscious people and people snoring in spectacular epics."
Gig Young
"My specialties are corpses, unconscious people and people snoring in spectacular epics."
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"In its best prewar year, Europe with almost 300 million people had a gross national product of 150 billion dollars. In that same year, the United States with 150 million people had a gross national product of 300 billion dollars."
Paul Hoffman
"In its best prewar year, Europe with almost 300 million people had a gross national product of 150 billion dollars. In that same year, the United States with 150 million people had a gross national product of 300 billion dollars."
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"Value is what people are willing to pay for it."
John Naisbitt
"Value is what people are willing to pay for it."
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"In earlier times, so many people sang much more. You know as a kid you'd go to some kind of religious training and or summer camp or whatever it was and you'd learn to sing a lot of songs."
Michael Tilson Thomas
"In earlier times, so many people sang much more. You know as a kid you'd go to some kind of religious training and or summer camp or whatever it was and you'd learn to sing a lot of songs."
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"I get a lot of independent films from people who are starting out."
Loretta Devine
"I get a lot of independent films from people who are starting out."
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"Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds."
Logan P. Smith
"Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds."
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"I am providing a service that many people obviously value."
Matthew Lesko
"I am providing a service that many people obviously value."
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"There will always be a few people who just want to knock you down or are jealous or just want to be horrible for the sake of it. I don't know what drives someone to be nasty."
Geri Halliwell
"There will always be a few people who just want to knock you down or are jealous or just want to be horrible for the sake of it. I don't know what drives someone to be nasty."
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"We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day."
James Wolfensohn
"We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day."
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