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People Quotes
"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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"The problem is going to be finding the right words and implementing it in a way that is really dealing with people that are inciting and not preventing honest discussion of the underlying causes of this horrendous political situation the world is in now."
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"Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people."
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"If two people were exactly alike, one of them would be unnecessary."
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"People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things."
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"I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways."
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"I have no use for people who hunt for what they call sport."
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"Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right now. And what the American people like is to think the underdog still has a chance."
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"There was a point in the '80s when I looked out at my audience and I saw people that - were I not on the stage - they'd sooner slug me as they walked by me on the sidewalk. And I realized that I was way beyond the choir."
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"Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices."
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"Like my colleagues, I did about 10 to 15 town hall meetings on this issue; and what I found is people came with a sincere interest to learn, a sincere interest to cut through the rhetoric and understand how this Medicare bill impacts them in their daily lives."
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"When they do bring on new people, it's good for the show. It's like getting a new toy. The writers enjoy it because it's a whole new character that they can write for, one that they aren't used to writing for. They can try different things."
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"I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else."
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"It used to be that you knew your neighbors and maybe your coworkers - the people in your physical vicinity."
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"Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything."
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"It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter."
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"The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected."
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"An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it."
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"People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I don't think that's limited to Haiti."
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"I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible."
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"It's totally different. I usually don't tell people about the Pleased if they know me from the harp. And if they are there to see the Pleased, I usually don't tell them about the harp. I am nervous that these people will expect something similar."
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"I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects."
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"The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way."
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"If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are."
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"People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure."
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"My agent said that I was one of the top three busiest people in the country."
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"People should be a little loony, Helena. That's the best thing about them."
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"People have a preconceived notion about who I am and it's interesting. It's like picking who you want to win for the Oscars and not seeing the movie."
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"In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA."
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"Cambridge is thriving and Britain is working. We have been telling people - 'if you value it, vote for it' - and this is particularly relevant in Cambridge."
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"There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out."
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