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People Quotes


"We played in bars and other such establishments and anywhere where people would listen. Sometimes they did, and sometimes not. The outfits we wore were classics of the 50's."


"It's very dangerous to wave to people you don't know because what if they don't have hands? They'll think you're cocky."


"Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was."


"The key to truly rebuilding our central city on a vital and sustainable foundation is people."


"As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people."


"You must be one of the few people with a copy of that. I don't think they printed too many."



"Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important."


"When dealing with illegal immigration, the answer is simple; enforce Constitutional mandates, and you will protect Floridians and the American people."



"Talking Heads, for me and Chris, was a very personal thing that we shared with a lot of people. In a way, I'm glad it's over, because it allows us to move beyond the restrictions that followed."


"People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week."


"If politicians continue to promote separatism in Australia, they should not continue to hold their seats in this parliament. They are not truly representing all Australians, and I call on the people to throw them out."


"Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right."


"I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people."


"A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire. It's not something I'm interested in trying. I would fail miserably at it, so why even bother?"


"I'm interested in why people compromise when they shouldn't. It comes back to what V's about in a sense. We've all got ideals, but given the right circumstances, we'll forget about them and put them behind us. I'm very interested in why people do that."


"I don't believe he had a responsibility to even answer that question - you have no responsibility to answer personal questions that people have no right to ask you."



"This is all new to me, these re-releases. I don't know how these things do. I don't know if it will be people who saw it originally or young people."


"Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win."


"The cast called her Lucy, but everyone else called her Mrs. Ball. She was honest with people. If she liked you, you knew it. If she didn't, you knew it, also."


"Some people are still not into us. That makes sense. We haven't really done a lot of press. We haven't put ourselves out there in ways that a lot of people would know we are still around. Unless you tour or record, they don't know you are around."


"I don't enjoy other people's dramas, and I don't enjoy mine."



"If I did everything, I probably wouldn't be here talking to you. There aren't too many people who can actually double me, so I do most of my stunts though."


"In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people."


"People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line."


"We said in our 21st Century Party paper there are 61 mosaic groups, which the market research people use as different socio-economic categories and half of our members come from just five of those groups and that is very narrow - too narrow."


"But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and he's very perceptive about people, and you know, that's fine."


"The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage."


"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."
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