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People Quotes


"Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people."


"People can't imagine an enemy that would cut someone's head off before a video camera and spread it out across the world. But that has happened with the kind of enemy we are now facing."


"When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows," people just stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, for free.""


"We started the company out of frustration with the employer that we had because we were building great stuff and there was no way that this stuff was ever going to get into the hands of the people who could use it."


"I think people are tired of politicians trying to poke each other in the eye."


"Traveling around I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know."


"Everything that I'm attempting to do is based on my understanding of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and what he wanted for his people."


"There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations."


"To be known by the public, honestly. People come up and tell them how good I make them feel."


"His unit is in charge of 5,000 homes, and they've only been able to search about 2 percent of them. People are standing on roofs or sticking their hands out of air vents so they can get rescued."


"They see us interacting with people, they see us doing serious interviews, they see us having fun, and when you're conversing with someone, you get a much clearer impression of who that person is than if they are just reading into a news piece."


"It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness."


"Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying."


"The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people."


"I think I'm so old I'm in. We call it the 'Tony Bennett Syndrome.' For some reason, young people think I'm cool."


"Like anywhere, we had to make people understand that we were there with good intentions, and that we were there with respect. We started making contacts with the people in the neighborhood three months before shooting began, so that everyone involved was comfortable."


"I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself?"


"This country isn't a melting pot. Think of this country as a stir fry. That's what this country should be. A place where people are appreciated for who they are."


"People are talking of his susceptibility to the rising delivery, but let me tell you that when you are out of form, every ball looks like a hand grenade."


"We must take care that globalization does not become something people become afraid of."



"Cutting taxes for very high income people an average of more than $100,000 a year for people that make more than a million dollars a year is not an effective way to get the economy going."


"It is said by the rebels at Roxbury that Col. Watson has given his quota to support the people."


"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses."



"Some people come in and really freak. There's movement everywhere, even a dancing housekeeper!"


"Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon the British people to participate in a 24-hour strike. It shows how far to the right the Labour Party's gone."


"It is not for the State Department or even the Secretary of State to say when and how the resources of the American people will be spent."


"I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background."



"Our world and our state have been transformed, but, in contrast, we as people have not been."


"We are battling fanatics who kidnap and behead civilians and shoot fleeing children in the back. There can be no dialogue with such people, and the American people understand this."


"I'd much rather be in a movie that people have really strong feelings about than one that makes a hundred million dollars but you can't remember because it's just like all the others."
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