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People Quotes


"The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times."


"It's a great story. It's available for anyone else who wants to try it. We're not brilliant. We're not unbelievable. We're just two people who hit a nerve. I think it can be done again and again and again. More people should try it."


"Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves."


"Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person."


"The International Brigades provided a shock force while the Republic trained and organized an army from an assemblage of individuals. The Spanish people knew they were not fighting alone."


"Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend."


"I wanted to make a film about stupid people that was very vulgar and deeply stupid. From that moment on I can hardly be reproached for making a film that is about stupid people."


"Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within."


"Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented."


"I wish I could see over crowds and small groups of people."


"For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people."


"The big political news, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he's running for governor of California, and already, people are chanting, 'Four more vowels, four more vowels.'"


"Other than motherhood, the eight years that I spent at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, I have incredibly fond memories of. It's a beautiful place, with four seasons up in Wisconsin. And really wonderful people."



"Some people are really good at maneuvering their careers and images and I'm not one of those people."



"People know who you are when you've never met them. For them, through interviews and seeing you perform, they feel like they know you and you've never seen them before. It's really different, but it's awesome."


"People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them."



"Ukraine is also successfully moving toward democracy and making progress expanding freedoms and rights to its people. We can help Ukraine achieve these goals and improve its economy by normalizing trade relations."



"There was a little bit of ham in me. And there's a lot of people say there's a lot of ham in me."


"I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars."


"There's something to be learned by listening and absorbing and watching before you start telling the people who have been there how to rearrange chairs."


"People break down after a couple of hours. All the defenses go down, and there's a kind of communication that if I spent 20 years in a living room with one of these people, I would never, never know as much about them as I do in that one day."


"Yeah, I do feel badly sometimes, not for whose coming up and getting roles I'm not right for anymore but the people I compete with, who range from Uma Thurman on up."



"This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people."


"The American people are being victimized more than any free market would warrant."


"The more things you own, the more people you need to employ."


"It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour."


"What drives people to public service is a sense of possibility. If you haven't sensed that possibility you don't get started in the same way, you don't feel you can have an impact."


"While people out there on the spot certainly have to be held accountable for what they've done personally, the chain of command responsibility for this strikes me as just as important and should be dealt with."



"I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations."



"A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal."



"There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are."


"Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it."


"But if the UN cannot or will not revise its rules in ways that establish beyond question the legality of the measures the United States must take to protect the American people, then we should unashamedly and explicitly reject the jurisdiction of these rules."


"I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the military or in the police."


"Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character with a real path towards citizenship."
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