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People Quotes


"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."


"I wanted to show people I can do things other than the sophisticated bitch."


"Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level."


"These are the people who are going to see the pictures in my museum."


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


"There are a lot of people who might not get another chance to win a Super Bowl, not just me."


"In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it."


"Some other people are very lucky and always get in to the very best teams at the very best times and therefore go out and score lots of championship points and be in with a chance of the championship."


"The Telecaster doesn't really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played."


"I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' because I think we all have potential to do good things and all have the potential to do bad things."


"Statistics show that many people watch our show from the bedroom. and people you ask into your bedroom have to be more interesting than those you ask into your living room. I kid you not!"



"People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation - much like building a mosque at Ground Zero."


"I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them."


"You, I, we all encounter behaviors that we might say, I wouldn't do that. But she has a huge amount of contact with how people live. She sees more hospices and sink estates than most people."


"And then there's Israel - a lot of people support Israel, and it's important to Israel to take out Iraq. So it's all mixed together. It's a combination of motives."


"Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate."


"Daytime has been successful all these years because it caters to a very real need in the audience - to see something that's not nighttime fantasy. People watch daytime because it's like their lives."


"The most frustrating thing for me as a singer is that people have pinpointed me as an actress who suddenly woke up one day and decided that I wanted to sing."



"Only lately, like within the last few years, have I had people actually do an impression of me to me, which weirds me out to think of what they have picked up on, without ever realizing it myself."


"The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill."


"If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more."



"It's sometimes shocking to find out what people really believe in."



"Well, I think every now and again, some people deserve to get their butts chewed. Every now and again some people deserve a pat on the back. What I try and do is compliment folk who deserve a compliment, and chew folks out who deserve to be chewed out."


"It's up to people like us, all of us, to address and talk about things like runaway global warming and how we can use things like remote viewing to save our planet."


"The reason bin Laden staggered the planes going into the towers was so every camera would be focused on the second tower when the plane hit. It was not only the murder, but the perpetual image of the horror that permeated into people's consciousness."



"What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh."


"I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up."


"But on those occasions when I do strongly disagree with the Democrats and I don't say anything, I think I forfeit my right to have people pay attention to me when I say the things that I don't like about what Republicans are saying."


"I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."


"There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new."
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