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People Quotes
"I think the number one thing that I find important is the importance of honesty with your friends and your parents, if you can be. But I think that telling people how you really feel, being who you truly are, being safe and taking care of yourself is the most important thing."
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"Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart."
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"I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?"
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"I think smart is sexy. I like smart people. People that are comfortable with themselves I think is very sexy. My cat is really sexy."
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"People want economy and they will pay any price to get it."
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"It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person."
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"If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people."
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"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
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"People get caught up in asking whether Americans should be going here or there. What it boils down to is the call of the Lord. If the Lord has called you to a specific area, that's where you are going to see the fruit."
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"You just don't want to push people into doing things that they really don't want to do. I don't think it's going to produce much."
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"Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch."
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"I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake."
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"A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position."
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"I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will."
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"I think that by October the whole company has to migrate to OpenOffice, and then I think it's by June next year we all migrate to Linux - you don't want to migrate 6,000 people both operating system and office suite in a single jump."
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"There's a kind of sick security some people get out of keeping away from people with disabilities. They are running away from any situation that's not totally pure and all-American and that requires them to do any thinking."
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"Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you're one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves?"
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"It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep."
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"People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross."
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"I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects."
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"People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates."
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"Mike Leigh encourages you to choose a person that you know to base your character on. You write a whole list of people that you know and you go through that list in great depth with him. And then he chooses one of those people from your list."
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"I build duets into bigger works. I like to see people working together. What we call a giant solo in my company is about four bars long while twenty other people are doing something dynamically. I like the charge that is set up by a lot of people doing something."
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"The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial."
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"People make fast moves around me, I react. I can't help it."
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"Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist."
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"Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good."
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"I've never tried to emulate anyone. I've never idolized people, I prefer instead to get off on attitudes."
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"People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't."
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"The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others."
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"Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people."
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"When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow."
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"Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals."
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"We do this basically for ourselves. People appreciate it, which is cool, but I think they appreciate that we're doing it for ourselves. We're doing it our way, and how people like it is not up to us. We like it."
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"People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to."
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