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People Quotes


"Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing."


"Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people."


"The place where the system and people's intentions meet is the political arena."


"Creative people are very insecure people because they don't know whether people like them or are in awe of them. That insecurity always comes out. It makes them a better actor, I feel."



"To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind."



"Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim."


"I'd always maintained an image so that people wouldn't approach me."


"I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on."



"I speak to people who have been through so much more."



"I do expose my body, but only because I think people should have something nice to look at."


"I believe we should appeal to people at the higher levels."


"The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them."


"We are all human and I want to relate that message to all people."


"I believe I'm going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I'm going to die high off the people. I believe I'm going to die a revolutionary in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle."


"There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television."


"Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice."


"It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts."


"If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions for the others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this."


"I'm not convinced that what are traditionally considered to be male energies or qualities or female energies or qualities really have as much to do with gender as many people think they do."


"As a Michigan senator, I feel a special responsibility to protect the Great Lakes. They are not only a source of clean drinking water for more than 30 million people but are also an integral part of Michigan's heritage and its economy."



"People used to think we just faked all that stuff... it was all written, rehearsed. The fact that it looks as cobbled together as it does is just that we weren't very good."


"All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today."


"I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build."


"I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did."


"An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run."


"When you're working with good people it brings good things out in you."


"Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show."


"In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never went back to that part of the world again, and I consider it the same in space exploration."


"It wasn't about the X's and the O's and the strategy; it was more about keeping 12 guys focused and committed to a task. That group dynamic, and then helping them to grow as people and basketball players."


"I let people know that it was all right to do the kinds of things I did."


"Sometimes in my class I have people come in and do monologues inspired by people they know and I always find that to be useful to do specifics about somebody and then you're actually doing a character and not doing some random old lady or something."
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