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People Quotes


"I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation."


"People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good."



"If we build something great, like we have at Travelers Group so far, a whole host of people benefit."


"I absolutely believe in assimilation. I don't believe I'm any different from straight people. My wants and needs are the same as theirs. I don't look at sexual orientation as that big of a deal. It's just an orientation."


"As an actor, that's the best thing you can do, really take people along on a story and tell them something."


"The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason."


"In spite of everything, I still believe that people are truly good at heart."


"Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me."



"If you let other people do it for you, they will do it to you."


"But the Congress has made the determination that certain kinds of information can be protected even though the American people may want to have access to information."


"I am pleased to see that information campaigns, such as the America's WETLAND effort, are getting the message out, and people are beginning to realize that wetlands loss in Louisiana affects us all."



"When oil and gas prices went up dramatically and filled up the state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged - directly to the people of Alaska."


"I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out."



"The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose."


"People don't come to Asheville very often, and they don't know I'm there. I enjoy it. I like it."


"There aren't many American directors here trying to direct a Japanese yakuza film. When you combine that with the fact that I don't speak much Japanese and this was an independent film I was financing myself - people were curious about what I was doing."


"I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people."


"The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians."


"The American people elected us here to cut spending so we can create an environment for jobs in America. The House has acted. We have demonstrated that we want to see spending, discretionary spending, brought down to levels of 2008. We've seen no counteraction. We have seen no position that has been expressed by the other side at all."



"I have tried to teach people there are three kicks in every dollar: one, when you make it; two, when you have it. The third kick it when you give it away - and it is the biggest kick of all."


"As I came to New York, it was for me a new beginning. To discover what people are living here. What do they need, what do they expect, what would they like to be the image and the performance of the New York Philharmonic?"


"I really think it is amazing that people actually buy software."



"Starbucks is my main fix and it's usually you people working in there - sometimes they're actually shaking. It just makes me feel horrendous because I've been in that situation."



"I had an awful first quarter but I picked it up. To all you single guys out there, it's not how you start the date, it's how you finish it sir. A lot of people can, you know, start the date with flowers and candy, but if you don't finish the date - you know what I mean?"


"The majority of surveys throughout this Nation show that the American people are advocating for a comprehensive and realistic approach to immigration reform."


"People know me, and want to know me, as a baller more than anything else."


"A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me."


"With creative people, truly new horizons open up."


"To make big steps, you've got to take action yourself and not listen to other people."



"My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people."


"Democrats couldn't care less if people in Indiana hate them. But if Europeans curl their lips, liberals can't look at themselves in the mirror."



"I've worked with an awful lot of people. Katy Hepburn, Spencer Tracy."


"I tell people, Don't take my advice. What do I know?"
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