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"I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak."


"Kevin, as the whole cast is, just wonderful people and great people, and people who are attracted to this kind of material and accepting the idea of going to Newfoundland and knowing the kind of lack of amenities."


"People in Indiana have known me for 25 years. They've known George Bush four."


"Normal people don't just wake up in the morning and say I think it'd be a good idea to run for president of the United States."


"You know, since the reviews have come out and people have reacted to it, I've realized that is in a sense what has happened. But as I was writing them, I didn't feel a part of any tradition. I think that would have been too overwhelming, in a sense."


"Most people are awaiting Virtual Reality; I'm awaiting virtuous reality."


"Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess."


"Names are what people sometimes use to excuse their thoughts and actions towards you."


"When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled."


"People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside."


"Before there was any talk of a movie, people would sometimes ask me what actors I would imagine playing these characters. And the only thing I could ever say is: I have such a clear idea of these characters that they'd have to play themselves."


"People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament."



"The platform we had in Dallas, the 1984 Republican platform, all the ideas we supported there - from tax policy, to foreign policy; from individual rights, to neighborhood security - are things that Jefferson Davis and his people believed in."


"There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything?"



"The true value of sport is more than the skills that young people learn."


"I like to go to parties where I know everyone. How are you going to have fun with people you don't know?"


"You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things."


"The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible."


"If there's one thing I hope people are certain of it's this: I'm looking out for YOU - the taxpayer."


"The American people likewise want to see enforcement first, no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enforcing existing laws and closing loopholes to reaffirm that our great Republic is, in fact, a nation of laws."


"You were able to sing something they related to instantly, because it was part of what you felt. It was part of what you had already traveled through. It's part of the people you were associating with daily. It was all of that."


"To me, that means getting back to the point where our Constitution means that you don't tap people's phones and poke into their e-mail and you don't arrest people and keep them hidden for a year and a half without charging them."


"The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them."


"It's a whole team of people working 24 hours around the clock to make me look like this."


"It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of."


"I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them."


"Melodic songs that people can relate to has always been our thing."



"If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow."


"People have known of Shakespeare's homosexuality down through the ages."


"The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers and lures to readers, with hundreds of short stories every month, don't exist. Most of the doors for new people have been sealed."



"In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite."
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