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People Quotes
"When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it."
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"Now, that is in a way also what scientists are trying to do they're trying to get people to see that the world can be represented in an alternative way and that it's right."
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"If people are going to be cooking the books, you're in trouble."
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"The evidence does not support abstinence-only interventions as the best way to keep young people from unintended pregnancy."
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"I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes."
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"The image we have would be impossible for Mickey Mouse to maintain. We're just... normal people."
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"You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening."
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"Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body."
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"What I am proposing this year are not lofty concepts far removed form the daily struggle so of ordinary Georgians. They are proposals that directly effect the lives of the people we serve."
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"I think the moral majority and religious right have been shrinking and having not quite as loud a voice in America, and all of a sudden people are coming to their own realizations going, 'Joe down the street is gay and he's a great guy.'"
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"There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people."
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"That's my personal view I would say most in my caucus agree with that but there are some who don't and I've always said that on these kinds of moral issues, people have the right to their own opinions."
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"People like my voice and say I can sing, but I don't like microphones in front of my face: it distracts me."
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"Some people are passionate about aisles, others about window seats."
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"People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights."
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"I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter."
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"Presidents with strong nerves are decisive. They don't balk at unpopular decisions. They are willing to make people angry. Bush had strong nerves. Clinton, who passed up a chance to eliminate Osama bin Laden, did not. Obama is a people pleaser, a trait not normally associated with nerves of steel."
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"But I think it's more fulfilling to be working with people."
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"In Arkansas alone, approximately three quarters of a million people are at risk of going hungry, and one in four children does not get enough to eat, so my goal is to bring awareness to this tragic issue."
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"The problem I have with making an intelligent statement is that some people then think it's not an isolated occurrence."
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"The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people that make them unsafe."
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"I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and from which one couldn't necessarily make a lot of generalizations."
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"I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five people that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department."
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"Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed to guarantee the debts of other institutions, including merchants, the industries, and the mills of the country?"
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"I let people make remarks about me, but it doesn't touch me, all those remarks."
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"And that's the one thing that people do not understand is that we have very low interest rates and if those go back to historical levels or even go back to scary thoughts that they're back in the late '70s, early '80s, then that's going to really be hard to actually pay off those debts. It's going to be a - it's going to be a very big problem."
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"I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance."
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"What I really resent most about people sticking labels on you is that it cuts off all the other elements of what you are because it can only deal with black and white; the cartoon."
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"I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center."
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"The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings."
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"Well, Neighbours wanted to do a song on the show, and they asked me what songs I had. I told them I'd just written this song, called Born to Try, and I had just gone overseas and spoken to some people from Song about it."
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"A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat."
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