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People Quotes
"I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity."
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"If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't learn."
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"With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches."
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"I don't want to be a 'teen star' because so many people don't ever grow out of that."
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"President Bush has had an outstanding Secretary of State in Colin Powell and there are not many people who could replace him, making Condoleezza Rice an excellent choice."
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"There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all."
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"People are often afraid for me. They think that I am going to break. I can make it through a set."
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"My show was revolutionary, ground-breaking. When I came on the scene, people were not doing a thing."
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"I think it's unconscionable for a Senator from Massachusetts to come down here and tell the people of Florida what's right for them. It's arrogant and irresponsible."
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"I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA."
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"You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That's why, when you play a concerto, you play with a small orchestra, in some place where you don't feel that it is as important as Carnegie Hall."
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"People are realizing that color has no bearing on what's known as brotherhood."
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"Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win."
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"The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people."
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"People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things."
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"If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice."
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"The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way down at the bottom in terms of total numbers and growth."
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"Four hundred million in India, and millions everywhere, have told you, precisely, that the colored people are not going to die for anybody: they are going to die for their independence."
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"Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts."
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"You can't inspire people if you are going to be uninspiring."
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"I knew that people were going to talk about it, I knew it was embarrassing, and I knew it was a big deal. But did I think that it was going to be this thing that followed me for, you know, the next years to come? I guarantee you, 25 years from now, I'll be known as the girl that lip synced on 'SNL.' But, you know, it was a weird thing. Not fun."
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"I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying."
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"People who know me well, call me Elizabeth. I dislike Liz."
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"If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like."
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"I think that the game is the game. I think that expansion is good for the game because it gives more jobs to the people and more ballplayers can play, but I think the game is still the game. The ballplayers, they come into the game with one thing in mind - it's their job."
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"Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves."
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"Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people."
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"Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people."
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"America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people."
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"My job is not babysitting people; my job is focusing on making the best band I possibly can."
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"Bobby was one of the few people I had ever known who really wanted to do something for me."
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