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People Quotes
"Now we are using the body scanner to scan the pilots. They became the dangerous people of this country?"
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"The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens."
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"The office has oversight of people who do analysis and oversight of people who do operations, but it is not charged with doing either. That is an important point to make. Those functions are performed by the CIA, DIA and other agencies."
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"I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else."
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"Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States."
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"We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free."
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"Too many people let others stand in their way and don't go back for one more try."
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"I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think all great actors listen well and I've learned that from a lot of the very good actors with whom I've worked - to really listen to what people say."
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"People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property."
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"Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now because we don't have people who have the capability to not only train fighters but also train and create decent respectable citizens of the world."
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"People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune."
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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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"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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"I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing."
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"In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves."
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"One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly."
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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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"Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year."
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"I have always loved to sit in ferry and railroad stations and watch the people, to walk on crowded streets, just walk along among the people, and see their faces, to be among people on street cars and trains and boats."
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"A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things."
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"Rich people march on Washington every day."
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"People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead."
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"They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon."
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"We see the people that have got stars in their eyes, but if you've really got what it takes, you can get from, say the beginnings, to the top in about five years."
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"You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things."
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"It really bothers me when people don't use coasters. Particularly on my table."
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"I can't stand when people say, Don't hate me because I'm beautiful. OK, how about I hate you because you said that'"
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"The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom. That's the reality. He will be killed by us, or he will be killed by his own people so he's not captured by us. We know that."
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"Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability."
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"I've always felt robbed of something by people not knowing I was a Jew."
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"People always think that if you eat anything as a model, it's amazing. I used to tease them and say, you know I'm going to throw up afterwards."
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"Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York."
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"Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own."
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