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People Quotes
"I don't care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter."
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"So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids."
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"I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was."
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"Returning to South Carolina meant getting a normal job in a normal town with normal people and marrying a normal person. I wanted the glamour and opportunity of the world."
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"Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them."
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"We need to put undercover security armed people at the curbside of the terminal with the uniform of policemen. We need to protect the terminal. We need to protect the security checkpoint, the gate, the aircraft, the perimeter."
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"If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air."
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"We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world."
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"You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself."
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"Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow."
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"There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production."
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"There are definitely worse people to be compared with. I think Brad Pitt makes interesting decisions."
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"People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something."
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"Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it."
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"I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut-or get angry from the gut."
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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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"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me."
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"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility."
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"Most people sell stock to pay taxes, but I didn't want to sell any stock."
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"People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not."
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"We know that 10 million more people will lose insurance in the next 10 years if we don't act."
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"We're absolutely American and distinctly so, I think. That's part of what people respond to outside of this country, part of the reason that we're such a huge band outside of the U.S., where we're not so popular now as we were 10 or 12 years ago."
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"Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win."
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"I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways."
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"The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard."
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"You're feeling the responsibility for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people on your shoulder in a way that I couldn't feel as lieutenant governor."
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