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People Quotes


"People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that."


"When people don't believe in you, you have to believe in yourself."


"I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated."


"I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States."


"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."


"I try to be careful to not just say it's a greatest hits show because we've also made efforts to keep people up to date so to speak because we continually write and record and put out albums."


"I don't care what people think. people are stupid."


"I refuse to be held responsible for bringing back a wave of pasty-faced people into the world."


"I guess my enthusiasm kind of rubs off on people."


"In recent years, the choice of drugs on these reservations and throughout my district has been methamphetamines. It has destroyed the rule of law among the reservation people. It is killing our tribal youth in this country."


"People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately."


"My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people."


"I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back."


"Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face."


"The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach."



"There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance."



"There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all."


"The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own."


"Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die."


"I think English people were a lot better at breakdancing than they were at making records."


"Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom."


"The earth and its resources belong of right to its people."


"We in the industrialized world make a greater difference because our ecological footprint, our impact on the condition of the environment, is 40 to 50 times larger than that of people in the developing world."


"We need to take responsibility and educate people. That's why black folks don't like me. I always say it's our responsibility to make safe neighborhoods. It's our job to get them cleaned up."


"Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit."


"So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country."


"You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right."


"We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think."


"People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart."


"Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney."


"The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen."


"Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners."


"Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves."
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