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People Quotes


"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."


"I think it's awful that the state of Oklahoma a couple of years ago passed this law to give the same tuition to illegals as they do to people who are residents of Oklahoma. I think it's wrong."


"Some people like going to the pub; I enjoy going to the gym."


"I would not run for president. I really like what I'm doing now. People say I'm giving them energy and hope."


"We know well and we know chronically ill, but there is a whole bunch of gray in between where I think we can heal people before they become chronically sick. I believe our thoughts make us sick."


"The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste."



"There is no question of the benefits that opening a market of a billion people will bring to American businesses. But as I said last year, this will test China and the world trade system."


"Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted."


"I find it difficult to judge myself, but people say that I have become a bit more socially acceptable over the years in terms of my material; which apparently at the beginning - though I never really intended it to be - was man hating and now is just a bit more cuddly."


"If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do."


"My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold."


"Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after."


"No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions."



"I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?"


"In a lot of aspects it's cooler that we don't have a lot of really overly famous people in the band."


"When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters."


"But I was in the Radiohead studio today and Phil was there drumming and Thom was there playing. We feel like we've only just stopped and already people are wanting us to carry on."


"The more people involved in making a movie, the worse it is, generally."



"Of course I'm a publicity hound. Aren't all crusaders? How can you accomplish anything unless people know what you are trying to do?"



"It is not yet too late for the Indian people to decide on rapid, ordered progress. I can assure them that the British people are as determined upon self-government for India as they are themselves."


"I think we're really - we're doing a really great job doing our show, and other shows are doing a great job doing theirs, and we'll just see what people have to say."


"My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph."


"The Democratic Party needs to look carefully at moving towards the middle, where the American people are."


"When people approach you angrily, you take them very seriously, and, if you're like me, with the faint suggestion that you can be angry too, and that you would like to know what the shooting is about."


"I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum."


"The infrastructure of the US is a long-term suspension of disbelief that such things won't be exploded deliberately by people who don't create anything."


"It's nice because working in England I'm know for working in television and theater when you get a chance to come out, it is quite fun to be out from behind the mask. You need to let people know who you are."


"One way to bring down crime in the state of California and every state in the union is to have an enforceable border. That means let's build that border fence. When people want to come into this country, let's ask them to knock on the front door."


"It's the same with people knowing absolutely everything there is to know about an actor. I actually think the more personal information you have about an actor, the more you have to carve out for yourself when you go to a movie and see them in it."


"I'm one of the few people who really like Eyes Wide Shut."


"I'm manipulating the audience. I'm making sure people sympathize."


"People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom."


"I think it helps a lot when they tell people that Teri Hatcher likes you. If you're Teri Hatcher's boyfriend, suddenly you're hunky I guess. I've spent 40 years being average and now I'm Teri hatcher's boyfriend and here we are. I've been really fortunate."


"The book is really, really dark, to the point where some people that I've talked to have said that it could be a series. And I'm like, Where? VH1? It's a little hard for VH1."


"A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking."
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