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"I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different."
Martin Gore
"I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different."
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"I have, on the other hand, felt ill will from various people in the industry and the press."
Rob Lowe
"I have, on the other hand, felt ill will from various people in the industry and the press."
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"In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either."
Ike Turner
"In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either."
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"I'm certain that it was an incredible gift for me to not only be friends with some of the greatest blues people who've ever lived, but to learn how they played, how they sang, how they lived their lives, ran their marriages, and talked to their kids."
Bonnie Raitt
"I'm certain that it was an incredible gift for me to not only be friends with some of the greatest blues people who've ever lived, but to learn how they played, how they sang, how they lived their lives, ran their marriages, and talked to their kids."
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"We got to do a few things with President Clinton. To be invited to Washington again to play with Ashanti and all those other cool people there in front of President Bush and the rest of the world feels awesome. I'm really looking forward to going."
Darius Rucker
"We got to do a few things with President Clinton. To be invited to Washington again to play with Ashanti and all those other cool people there in front of President Bush and the rest of the world feels awesome. I'm really looking forward to going."
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"Because, first of all, we were becoming aware during that tour that there was a group of people that was following the band around, and they weren't interested in coming in to the shows, they were just interested in hangin' out outside and tryin' to break in."
Phil Lesh
"Because, first of all, we were becoming aware during that tour that there was a group of people that was following the band around, and they weren't interested in coming in to the shows, they were just interested in hangin' out outside and tryin' to break in."
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"Give the people not hell, but hope and courage."
John Murray
"Give the people not hell, but hope and courage."
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"We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure."
Gerald Brenan
"We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure."
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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
Hunter S. Thompson
"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
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"It sustained me... I can't tell you how much their support meant to me when I was leaving and coming back and even while I was gone, there was a part of me that knew people were pulling for me."
Alice Barrett
"It sustained me... I can't tell you how much their support meant to me when I was leaving and coming back and even while I was gone, there was a part of me that knew people were pulling for me."
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"Unfortunately, sometimes people don't hear you until you scream."
Stefanie Powers
"Unfortunately, sometimes people don't hear you until you scream."
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"Yes, the first job I had at the studio was Snow White. I don't like the term particularly, but I got stuck with the human characters. They just didn't have that many people who could draw humans."
Marc Davis
"Yes, the first job I had at the studio was Snow White. I don't like the term particularly, but I got stuck with the human characters. They just didn't have that many people who could draw humans."
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"You have to remember when we were going once a month, we were putting out issues that were 480 pages, and people were complaining that these were too big, I can't get through a 480 page magazine every month."
James Daly
"You have to remember when we were going once a month, we were putting out issues that were 480 pages, and people were complaining that these were too big, I can't get through a 480 page magazine every month."
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"I just hope people don't get sick of us. I'm sick of us and I'm in Destiny's Child."
Beyonce Knowles
"I just hope people don't get sick of us. I'm sick of us and I'm in Destiny's Child."
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"So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window."
Gerard Way
"So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window."
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"It appalls me that the people who decide what Americans will be watching on the tube have never been to the United States. Not the real United States."
John Ratzenberger
"It appalls me that the people who decide what Americans will be watching on the tube have never been to the United States. Not the real United States."
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"I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists."
Kathy Acker
"I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists."
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"There's nothing more fun than sitting in a circle playing with people who are really into it."
Kathy Mattea
"There's nothing more fun than sitting in a circle playing with people who are really into it."
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"Fahrenheit 9/11 took public domain information that should have been on the news every night and put it in a film that a lot of people went to see. But still Bush has never had to answer those charges."
John Sayles
"Fahrenheit 9/11 took public domain information that should have been on the news every night and put it in a film that a lot of people went to see. But still Bush has never had to answer those charges."
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"People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned."
James A. Baldwin
"People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned."
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"I'm a perfectionist. I'm not going to cheat the people."
Dick Dale
"I'm a perfectionist. I'm not going to cheat the people."
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"Steven and I have worked together a lot and I'm far ahead of the curve than most people in knowing what he wants, but he knows far more than I know about what's important for the story. So, most of the changes he will make will involve story changes."
Dennis Muren
"Steven and I have worked together a lot and I'm far ahead of the curve than most people in knowing what he wants, but he knows far more than I know about what's important for the story. So, most of the changes he will make will involve story changes."
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"I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people."
Ethel Merman
"I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people."
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"Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it."
Norman Douglas
"Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it."
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"Groups like The Mountain Brothers just have to keep on doing what they're doing - just make it dope and just make it different. And not try to compete with other people of color."
Chad Hugo
"Groups like The Mountain Brothers just have to keep on doing what they're doing - just make it dope and just make it different. And not try to compete with other people of color."
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"I think there was a sense that the impact was being lost because the audience was so familiar with the form. You combine that with people's attention spans, which are clearly conditioned to be shorter now, and there's a need to vary the paradigm."
Jim Lampley
"I think there was a sense that the impact was being lost because the audience was so familiar with the form. You combine that with people's attention spans, which are clearly conditioned to be shorter now, and there's a need to vary the paradigm."
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"There are lots of people in the world who do have the advantage of going to a good drama school and just decide that they want to be actors. There's nothing wrong with an untrained actor; they have to get their training somehow, they have to learn."
Erika Slezak
"There are lots of people in the world who do have the advantage of going to a good drama school and just decide that they want to be actors. There's nothing wrong with an untrained actor; they have to get their training somehow, they have to learn."
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"Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values."
Theodore C. Sorensen
"Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values."
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"One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that."
Ira Glass
"One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that."
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"I think they could of recast the children, I heard of people wanting to do something like that. That would be a nice little show to do but you know that show was of the 80's, I don't think the audience mind set is in that direction any longer."
Larry Hagman
"I think they could of recast the children, I heard of people wanting to do something like that. That would be a nice little show to do but you know that show was of the 80's, I don't think the audience mind set is in that direction any longer."
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"People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me."
Tanith Lee
"People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me."
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"I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever."
Vince Vaughn
"I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever."
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"Especially in the realm of bringing an opportunity to do something creative to people, as I said, who wouldn't ordinarily have that opportunity. I think that's very important."
Phil Lesh
"Especially in the realm of bringing an opportunity to do something creative to people, as I said, who wouldn't ordinarily have that opportunity. I think that's very important."
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"We ought to be doing that with decent standard housing but if we have people who are absolutely on the streets in this case, I think it makes sense that tent cities are preferred to not having tent cities."
Mike Lowry
"We ought to be doing that with decent standard housing but if we have people who are absolutely on the streets in this case, I think it makes sense that tent cities are preferred to not having tent cities."
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"So many people aren't ready for Hollywood - professionally or practically."
John Ratzenberger
"So many people aren't ready for Hollywood - professionally or practically."
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"That's the thing about the script, is that how these people were affected by their decision, and how it could ultimately kill them, and I mean literally."
Kevin Williamson
"That's the thing about the script, is that how these people were affected by their decision, and how it could ultimately kill them, and I mean literally."
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"The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all."
Benjamin Spock
"The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all."
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"Whatever our personal differences are, there are no bigger fans of this band than the people who are in this band."
Alex Van Halen
"Whatever our personal differences are, there are no bigger fans of this band than the people who are in this band."
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"This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity."
Lech Walesa
"This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity."
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"You do get some weirdos, but if there are any nice people out there who want to write to me pleasantly, then they'll get a pleasant reply back!"
Katie Price
"You do get some weirdos, but if there are any nice people out there who want to write to me pleasantly, then they'll get a pleasant reply back!"
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"If you have a good ear for dialogue, you just can't help thinking about the way people talk. You're drawn to it. And the obsessive interest in it forces you to develop it. You almost can't help yourself."
Robert Towne
"If you have a good ear for dialogue, you just can't help thinking about the way people talk. You're drawn to it. And the obsessive interest in it forces you to develop it. You almost can't help yourself."
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"People aren't interested in seeing themselves as they really are."
Jim Woodring
"People aren't interested in seeing themselves as they really are."
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"It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are."
Spike Lee
"It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are."
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"We cannot shun our values as an immigrant nation. This is a wrong path. And while possibly it is a short-term political victory based on division and based on creating a wedge issue that splits people in this country, it is a long-term defeat for this Nation."
Raul Grijalva
"We cannot shun our values as an immigrant nation. This is a wrong path. And while possibly it is a short-term political victory based on division and based on creating a wedge issue that splits people in this country, it is a long-term defeat for this Nation."
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"People should try eating no animal products for just ONE DAY a week."
Casey Affleck
"People should try eating no animal products for just ONE DAY a week."
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"People have to be confident about their sites. We're confident, number one, because under my administration we're managing our airports better than we've ever done before."
Richard M. Daley
"People have to be confident about their sites. We're confident, number one, because under my administration we're managing our airports better than we've ever done before."
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"You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy."
Lydia M. Child
"You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy."
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"I want to get people thinking."
James De La Vega
"I want to get people thinking."
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"I think we were just coming out and being ourselves, instead of operating within boundaries that other people had created. We decided to do away with those boundaries."
Michael Giles
"I think we were just coming out and being ourselves, instead of operating within boundaries that other people had created. We decided to do away with those boundaries."
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"Where I grew up in Dallas, things might be a little more traditional. People have the same things in mind. They're supposed to grow up, go to college, get a job, get married, and have children, grandchildren. That's the world I grew up in."
Lisa Loeb
"Where I grew up in Dallas, things might be a little more traditional. People have the same things in mind. They're supposed to grow up, go to college, get a job, get married, and have children, grandchildren. That's the world I grew up in."
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