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People Quotes


"I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them."


"Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it."



"You can be sure that I will always consider how changes to Social Security will impact people with disabilities when considering the various proposals offered for reform."


"Show interest in all people, not just those from whom you want something. Making people feel important and good about themselves is just the right thing to do."



"I understand people who boo us. It's like going to Broadway show, you pay for your tickets and expect to be entertained. When you're not, you have a right to complain."



"There are people out there who want me to fail, who want Jude to fail, who want our relationship to fail."


"Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people."


"Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of."


"This has resulted in more and more people becoming inner-directed and having as their only goal, getting as much as they can get out of the system and putting as little into it as possible."


"What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river."



"People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me."


"I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife."


"They say it figures MTV would do such a vulgar, awful, horrible show and they completely miss that it's satirizing the people who watch MTV."


"The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality."


"The Democratic Party is a house of many mansions. It is a body which is extremely important in representing all kinds of people in all parts of the country who have very broad and very different views."


"People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance."


"Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow."



"I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk."



"We are having Internet Governance discussions and meetings and a very large number of people are discussing the future of the Internet who have no clue as to what the Internet is except that it is important and that they have to be involved."


"That's Tommy, this great producer who comes in contact with people and must have a mental library of personnel who are great for this and great for that, and he brought this whole group of musicians to the project that I'd never worked with before."


"Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act."


"I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because people's lives don't have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying."



"I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That's what I worry about more than I worry about jazz."


"Prices have stayed up because people in control of supply decided they could keep them up."


"But so long as we can keep this crew of fantastic people together and can continue to make real breakthrough films in this category, as well as characters that stay true to what we've done in this first film, I'd be more than happy to be a part of it."



"Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it."


"Beyond that, states had to also have electronic voting machines that made it possible for people who are physically handicapped to vote in private... and the computerized voting machine made it very easy for, particularly, the blind."



"The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist."



"Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason or another."



"There's five cameras, I don't know how many people in the audience... depending on where we're taping, there can be anywhere from 300 to 5,000 people, so the contestants are nervous."
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