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People Quotes


"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."


"It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous."



"You've got two people that are well known in South Dakota, respected. We'll see how it all shakes out."


"People still come up to me and ask whether I am Louise Brown or if they've seen me somewhere else before."


"People make a big fuss over you when you're President. But I'm very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn't go to my head."


"To the socialist no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another people, for to him colonial peoples, too, are peoples, and, as such, parts of the national state."


"People are surprised to find out that an awful lot of people think that they're idiots."


"I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I view my role as writer and also as oral communicator."



"I've been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the vision I have."


"People need loving the most when they deserve it the least."


"We ask from the heart that supermarkets, which are now more profitable and selling more, help us to take care of the pocketbook of the people by not raising prices."


"You see, party labels do not ensure unanimity any more than trying to cast the challenge we confront as a people through a partisan prism."


"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people."


"What we should be trying to do is to encourage people to establish private retirement accounts and help them take pressure off the Social Security system."


"People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities."



"To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired."



"The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail."


"I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need."



"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."


"So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country."


"But I have to grow out of it, because it's very boring, really. Even when you're telling people how crap you are, you're still banging on about yourself."



"I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is the sensibility for good writing. Just opening your veins all over the paper is not necessarily going to be interesting. I wanted to speak to people."


"I find that one must accept the people in such a way as they are."


"It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for."


"The American people are not anti-immigrant. We are concerned about the lack of coherence in our immigration policy and enforcement."


"I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me."



"It was just really, really tough getting anything when you were a female. Basically, I just took advantage of everything I could. But when people are going to flat out tell you they're not going to hire anyone that's female, there's not much you can do about it."


"In any event, the proper question isn't what a journalist thinks is relevant but what his or her audience thinks is relevant. Denying people information they would find useful because you think they shouldn't find it useful is censorship, not journalism."



"Neither political party is clean when it comes to tactics that divide our people."


"I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go."


"If we invest in the American people, the American people always bring this Nation a good return."
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