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People Quotes
"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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"Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist."
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"The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that. I think we absolutely have rights because there are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire."
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"A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!"
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"I've worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a place of being extremely challenging and dark within their way."
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"Our party cannot be all things to all people. It can't be. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's stop trying to curry favor with them."
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"Today, we can tell people we have a testing process and facilities in place on a nationwide basis."
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"The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people."
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"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me."
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"Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture."
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"What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself."
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"I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious!"
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"I think we have a number of young people - like yourself - who want to make a difference. I'm not sure the numbers are as large because I think the burden of getting elected to public office at the national level has become astronomically expensive."
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"It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh."
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"Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame."
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"I don't think I'm bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this."
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"The Russian people are suffering from economic fatigue and from disillusionment with the Allies! The world thinks the Russian Revolution is at an end. Do not be mistaken. The Russian Revolution is just beginning."
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"I'm surrounded by it. I have so many lovely people around me who are supportive, gentle, kind and considerate. I'm so grateful for every day that I'm on the planet and that continues to be so."
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"I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out."
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"I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for."
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"Some people have compared the Klan images to ecclesiastical figures."
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"I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out."
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"What I want the Congress of the United States to do, and frankly what I would like to see the President of the United States of America do, is speak a word of support to the people of Iran."
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"If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next."
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"I think the moral majority and religious right have been shrinking and having not quite as loud a voice in America, and all of a sudden people are coming to their own realizations going, 'Joe down the street is gay and he's a great guy.'"
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"There is little correlation between the circumstances of people's lives and how happy they are."
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"I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation."
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"That is why we are working with these various groups that have volunteers. We can get a lot of these things done. Nobody has dropped out, and a lot of people would like to join. We now know what each other does."
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"This country isn't a melting pot. Think of this country as a stir fry. That's what this country should be. A place where people are appreciated for who they are."
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"Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves."
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"But I think it's more fulfilling to be working with people."
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"A lot of people give up just before they're about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one."
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