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People Quotes


"People who know how much they're worth aren't usually worth that much."


"I feel horribly vindicated. Three thousand people died who didn't have to die."


"The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative."


"Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things."


"Quite a few people have commented during the campaign that more help is required for small businesses. SMEs need support and encouragement in their early stages, and in Cambridge the links to the University and the huge pool of expertise here helps that."


"There is nothing wrong where we reach a point where maybe everybody could claim a victory. I think it would be good for the American people, which should be our first priority."


"People are going to see both of us and think it's an Abbott and Costello kind of thing. It's not an easy switch. It's not an easy transition from TV to film."



"If people take the film and screen it whenever possible for their social and professional networks, we can continue to make a difference. It is one more element we have to use in the ongoing effort to take back our country."


"We are going after a targeted group of businesses that are creating opportunities for themselves using other people's property. The Internet has very little to do with this."



"Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add, perhaps even a touch of envy too, because of the solace."



"What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives."


"The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who's new."


"The largest single contributor to Iraq's security is that effort of Iraqi people who continue to step forward to join the various Iraqi security forces."


"Strong efforts have been made in Ohio to curb the authoritarianism of our Secretary of State, Kenneth Blackwell, as he has purged people from lists in our State in particular precincts where voters are heavily minority."


"Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people."


"It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own."


"When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars."


"We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income taxes."



"Why don't you put that in the headline: 'He Only Did Three With Doris!' Set a lot of people straight."


"We obviously want to produce things that people want. We are going to continue to do that in an environmentally responsible way, while still being aware of the physical, scientific, and practical issues that we have to deal with."



"Marc Bolan had inspired so many people to pick up a guitar and join a band."


"I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books."


"A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't."


"I'm always really surprised by people who are comfortable revealing all of their secrets on TV or in a magazine. It's actually quite shocking to me."


"We need to make sure parents and coaches are aware of the dangers an on the look-out for the warning signs. Performance enhancing drugs are too damaging to young people for parents and coaches to not be involved."


"I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves."


"The thing that people seem to miss about not just Google, but also our competitors, Yahoo, eBay and so forth, is that there's an awful lot of communities that have never been served by traditional media."



"I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me."


"People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate."


"Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their tuition now, they will pay higher taxes to pay other people's tuition for the rest of their lives, most of them ended up agreeing with me."


"There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people."


"And if you're getting a poll coming out month after month saying something and then all of a sudden does an enormous swing in one direction - you are dealing with a more volatile electorate than most people believe they have."


"I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up or not being this very cool, amazing person that I wanted to be."


"Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description."
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