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People Quotes


"The earth and its resources belong of right to its people."


"People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't."


"I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then."


"Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit."


"Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end."


"If two people were exactly alike, one of them would be unnecessary."


"If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors."


"We want to turn our inventory faster than our people."


"It is often said that the magnitude of a people is measured by their ability to know how to win."


"Washington is a great international city and in the congregation we have people who are rich and poor, black and white, and from every part of the world."


"You're feeling the responsibility for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people on your shoulder in a way that I couldn't feel as lieutenant governor."


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


"We had every problems starting a big top could have. The tent fell down on the first day. We had problems getting people into the shows. It was only with the courage and arrogance of youth that we survived."


"Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies."


"It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into."


"People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights."


"Having had cancer, one important thing to know is you're still the same person at the end. You're stripped down to near zero. But most people come out the other end feeling more like themselves than ever before."


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



"The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well."


"They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people."


"We're not very accepting of people who act strangely."


"I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else."


"If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants."


"We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors."


"Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."


"People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity. Clean vulgarity can be very shocking and that, in my view, gives greater involvement."


"Several tons of dynamite are set off in this picture - none of it under the right people."


"I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true."


"I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words."


"I think smart is sexy. I like smart people. People that are comfortable with themselves I think is very sexy. My cat is really sexy."


"Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the other way around, which is not very helpful."


"You've got people who didn't serve with John Kerry saying they did serve with John Kerry in the boat. With George Bush, we can't find anybody who did serve with him."


"Often dismissed or underestimated by political opponents, President Reagan had the most valuable weapon in the political arsenal: a bond with the people."
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