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People Quotes



"When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now."


"I do remember that I was sitting in the make-up chair before the shoots for a commercial or film or other, and I thought: Sometime soon they are going to make a close-up of me and millions of people can see how many pimples I've got on my cheeks."


"I represent the views and the values of the people of the district."


"I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens."



"You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future."



"I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?"



"You're blinded by lights and you see all these people who come out, and it's exciting. It's scary and it's exciting all rolled into one."



"People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in an era where people didn't like that."


"Well, I'm telling them two things. One is that, look, this is going to be something when the American people realize - once it's passed - that, A, it does take care of preexisting conditions; B, you're insurance rates aren't going to skyrocket; C, the insurance companies aren't going to be running the show like they were before; D, you're going to be in a position where you can keep your insurance that you have. That once the American public realizes that, you're going to get a reward for this. They're going to be rewarded."


"I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else."


"I've been told that I have a lot of energy. The secret is that I use renewable resources. Some days I'm solar powered. Some days I'm wind powered. And some people in this room might think I'm hybrid gas-powered. You'll just have to guess which it is today."


"But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them."


"Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people."


"Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many were homosexuals - the two things seem to go together."



"You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart."


"I did a film which was considered an independent movie with Dustin Hoffman and Andy Garcia called Confidence, and that's the type of film I was willing to take a chance on that because of the caliber of people involved with the film."


"Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing."


"I had years of therapy to recover from this. A lot of it had to with being a people pleaser, being the ultimate good girl. I wanted everyone to like me. I didn't really have a voice. I was afraid of growing up."


"People understand we have a dependence upon foreign oil. What they do not understand and find incredibly ridiculous is that we import refined product just making us more dependent on the industry."



"Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal."


"Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me."



"I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills."


"The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not."


"I find it interesting that many of the people who want to restrict fossil fuels live in well-developed countries where abundant and affordable energy is readily available."


"That's the main thing that attracts me - characters who have big journeys. I like playing those people."


"Walt understood all of those things, and even common things about people. For instance: Usually you get your idea of what kind of day it is by looking at the horizon, because the horizon is your eye level. So what Walt did is to eliminate the horizon."


"I never expected this to catch on in the way it did! Of course similar observations have been made by any number of people, and the distinction is obvious to anyone who thinks about the subject a little."


"Look, we are a rock group. But you should see all those things in perspective. People tend to blow up everything into ridiculous proportions. And then the fun is gone real soon."



"The people that really were important, that mattered, had a great foundation. I had no training. I had to learn while doing, and it was really difficult."


"I only went to one Star Trek convention and that was in the late '80s. I hadn't gone to a convention before that. It was quite amusing, with the people dressed up and all of that."



"There aren't many people who say that Europe is a territory, or Asia is a territory - it'd be suicide. And there are even more people in America than in Europe. I think it's strange, really. I basically see it as loads of different places."
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