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People Quotes
"So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids."
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"The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens."
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"Everyone is different, but I'm not standoffish at all. I'm not one of those people who prefer to write a note. I'll walk right up to you and ask you out! Even if the answer's no, I'm totally cool with it."
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"I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro."
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"Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live."
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"And that's very important, too, 'cause a lot of people just assume everyone's a Democrat, or everyone's a Republican or whatever, and they're not. And that's a really important thing to adhere to."
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"I believe people are in our lives for a reason. We're here to learn from each other."
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"I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy, not merely a belief system. Yeah, it's had media exposure because certain luminaries do Scientology, but millions of people do it who are not celebrities. It's not a threat or some cult."
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"I tried to do the commercial thing. But I don't want to keep shoving Twinkies down everyone's throat. People are hungry for something of more substance."
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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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"Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want."
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"When I used to go to Elvis's house was always a nightmare trying to get into the house because of so many fans outside the gate and he really couldn't go anywhere without sneaking in or doing something because people just wanted to be around him and to be with him."
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"I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience."
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"I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?"
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"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."
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"Because people have read those things in the newspapers, they think it is true. Ten years ago all these things I have just mentioned would have upset me."
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"If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like."
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"A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things."
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"Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy."
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"A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions."
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"I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way."
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"Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down."
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"Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance."
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"I try not to deal with people's hostility, though I must if they have something I need from them, as the professors did at Columbia or my landlord did."
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"You can't command people to do their best; they can only command that of themselves."
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"It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say."
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"People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite."
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"It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there."
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"When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless."
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