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People Quotes



"Because I hate fake people and I always think I'm never fake."



"What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it."


"Walking into a room filled with people you don't know but who know you brings out your worst vulnerabilities."


"The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people."


"People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they never have changed Mr. Gable's role, or most of them."



"The people of one county can not be indifferent to the welfare of the people in another county."


"HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country."


"Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution."


"The most important thing a mayor does is hire talented people to run the city."



"You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't."



"I think we're giving people something new that people didn't know was out there before."


"We do not need to end Medicare. We don't need to throw people who are younger than 55 years old to the wolves which is what we do."


"If you can't find the next McDonald's, I'll find the next McDonald's. But it's vital to be with people who with looking for 'em, because they do exist. They are created."



"Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week."


"With four people you can create one very strong kind of energy, but if you can get 65 people working together, and swinging together, that's a whole other kind of energy."


"There's obviously some validity to it. But I think it also points out that you obviously can do it on your own because people have been doing it long before they had the stuff."


"If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but you've embraced it. Basically, I do what a lot of people do, but I've been able to win."


"You cannot limit yourself to one area of specialized craft. Instead, regardless of craft, you have to charge all forms of expression that lead to the community, to other people, with meaning."


"I went there and helped him shuffle pictures of people, and one of the agents asked me if I was interested in acting. Of course, I was a little bit interested in it; I'm sure that's part of the reason I moved to L.A. even though I never admitted it to myself."


"To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing."


"Being a Southern person and a blonde, it's not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you, they think of you as not being smart."


"I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after."



"You know no one ever accomplishes something like this without a lot of help from good people along the way. And this is certainly true in my case, and I would like to thank some of those people."


"Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations."



"I think that people who have Vegas throat are people who sing from their throats only."



"As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department."


"Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed."


"People say it's not ambitious, but it is actually quite ambitious wanting to help people."


"Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made."



"I don't have many people showing up at my door. Very few people come out. When they do, I get a little suspicious. I live way up on a hill, way, way back in the country."


"In the most important sense a creationist is a person who believes in creation, and that includes people who believe that Genesis is a myth and that creation involved a process called evolution and consumed billions of years."



"I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people."


"One problem was that my direct testimony was in writing, so a lot of people didn't get to see it. I hope they see it, because I think it built a very strong case."



"Forty years later, people still swear they can hear his offstage scream."


"My career has been different from most people, but I knew what I was not going to do. I knew I was not going to be controlled. I knew there was a price for this, but I did not know there was as large a price as it turned out to be."


"If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart."


"If there are 10 people there, two or three are going to recognize you."
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