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People Quotes


"We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day."


"I loved that it was about human relationships and then it was a mystery without falling into the trap of a thriller per se, because it pulled you in through people rather than through events or effects."


"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made."


"The writers are writing human beings, and they're writing about the human condition and how difficult it is to function in that condition. I think it's one of the charms of the show, the idea of redemption and working towards becoming better people, for everybody involved."


"I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I'm with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them."


"I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people."


"Obviously every one of them was special to that particular team, all the people that were involved with it."


"Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people."



"When you do a movie in the studio system, there's a committee. A committee of six or seven people you answer to. There's two or three producers, a studio executive and one or two people above that studio executive."


"The Australian people want to help build this country into a great nation. This budget... has not realized the capacity of the Australian people. It has underestimated them. It has let us down."


"I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people."


"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen."


"People in the U.S. will watch anything if it's put in front of their face over and over again. I like to see what's possible, more than anything."



"Sometimes the problem is not the people in the band, but the people around the band."


"You know, when people want to get any information, research information, it will all exist on these Web sites."


"I believe people are afraid to be still because we're used to being stimulated."



"I read a book recently by a psychiatrist who was able to interview a few serial killers and she had a thesis on how you could figure these people out. And she thinks that there are things that could tell you whether someone has the potential to do that."


"When people realize that they have been forgiven of everything, it becomes a little bit easier for them to forgive others."


"I think people could be a bit friendlier. The only real contact you have with people is when they're annoyed if you've had a party - you know, it's been a bit too noisy for them or something."


"I think that people ran out of oxygen and don't really know what happened up there, maybe some of them just made things up because they weren't sure what had happened."



"No movement finding itself in this stage of struggle can operate by getting authority from the leading body of the political organs for even minor action that is taken and we don't even know in the case of the actions which have publicize whether they are in fact our people."


"We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected."


"Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them."


"He exists and we have four people who identified him and I know who he is, where he is, what his phone number is, everything about him that one needs. All I need is a criminal trial so I can have him subpoenaed."


"I've had a lot of people tell me they wish I were their principal."



"I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you."


"Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly."


"You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand."



"Two stops after I got on, these two unbelievable short people got on, and the way they were looking at me, I could tell. They wanted to bite my ankles!"


"I think anything that has to do with sexuality makes people very interested."


"I think people, for the most part, actually want what they think is best."
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