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People Quotes


"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."


"I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to."


"When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me."


"I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors."


"I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren't getting it on the radio."


"So there clearly is a sense in which the Labour Party here, certainly at State level is reaching out and connecting with people and reflecting the aspirations and needs of, you know the mass of ordinary Australians."


"I think I've finally proven something to people who were cynical about me. Because they were cruel."


"Many people think I'm a television personality. I never have been! Just someone who acts it."


"It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing."


"The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency."


"I definitely feel, when I'm wearing the costume, that I could scare people and hurt them."


"There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, "There you are" and those who say, "Here I am""


"I don't like to watch golf on television because I can't stand people who whisper."


"As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to other people it is just another day."


"I think most non-Christians who try to be good people are probably better Christians than Christians."



"In the context of September 11, there were so many that lost their lives that - how do you single out one person? There were so many acts of heroism that day from so many people, whether it be firemen and police officers in New York and our agents also."


"It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups."


"I just have some restaurants to just go and eat there. Do mean places to watch people? I like to go shopping look for guitars and stuff with my friends. Look at Meyer, great old instruments, talk about pedals and stuff."


"The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development."


"Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories."


"A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people."


"When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long."


"I always think of the character as being me. But me wearing a 'coat', which may be a different way of speaking, moving or regarding other people. To me, acting is pretending, just like kids playing, only you pretend as if it were really, really real."


"To have united the purposes of an entire Nation, is the great historical achievement of the man in whose strong hands our President has placed the fate of our people."



"People essentially like local news better than network news."


"There are always protests, whether you do something good or bad. Even if you do something beneficial, people say you do it because it's advertising."


"I think people stop themselves from doing the things they want to do. I just think you never know how long you're going to be around so you might as well do the things that are intriguing. Nobody really cares anyway so you have to do what makes you happy."


"I could announce one morning that the world was going to blow up in three hours and people would be calling in about my hair!"


"If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!"



"The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people."


"People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage."


"I will fight hard to keep my seat in this place, but that will depend on the people who sent me here."


"I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have."
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