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People Quotes


"States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions."


"What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line."


"I do feel that the trend is away from ageism and toward a recognition that older people have a unique voice."


"I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different."


"We're understanding what Obama is. He is the great teacher. He is this guy that stands above everybody. There's some condescension in it, but he stands above everybody and says, 'Now, listen. You people have to stop blaming each other unreasonably. You have to get along here and I am going to show you the way.' It is a pretty brave role in many ways."


"For too long, Democrats have been telling people what they want to hear. I'm going to tell you what I believe."


"If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation."



"No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other."


"I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them."


"I am the reassurance that they have not changed. In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were."


"The next release of mainline is going to have a lot of the advanced features people want, by the way."


"I told them that free people always had to decide where to draw the line between their liberty and their security. I noted that the attacks would almost certainly push us as a nation more toward security."


"A lot of people are upset that I'm not working. They say it's a disgrace."


"There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old."



"I am not a lesbian and I am not a slut, and somehow I am going to make people believe me."


"It's good to get out of the closet and talk about it and find out other people's views."


"I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people."


"Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are."


"I find that people... very few people think that what they're doing is bad, and usually the people who think what they're doing is bad it has more to do with guilt."



"I was a lousy waiter, dealing with people and having people in your face like that."


"The news of the open military help to Franco from Hitler and Mussolini, and the heroic resistance of the people of Madrid, Barcelona and the big cities fired a widespread wish to help the Republic and its people."


"There are genres I don't care for, and I've never worked in those genres, and then sometimes there are people that I haven't liked and I haven't worked for those people. But if I feel like there's a movie that I would like to go see, I'll jump into it."


"And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do the richer Shakespeare. People will come to this and not know the story."


"There are elections in which everyone knows that 'the people have spoken' but they don't always know exactly what the people have said. This November's election was different. Not only did the people speak, they spoke clearly."


"Last year we had so many people coming in and out they didn't bother to sew their names on the backs of the uniforms. They just put them there with Velcro."


"It really doesn't matter to me what people say about me anymore."


"Bing Crosby sings like all people think they sing in the shower."


"People keep telling us, that they didn't know when they were booking tickets for it, but afterwards they say that they've had no sense that they were watching an old fashioned play."


"I had hoped to hear the President tonight tell the Congress and the American people exactly how he plans to tackle some of the important issues facing this country, unfortunately I did not."


"What a holler would ensue if people had to pay the minister as much to marry them as they have to pay a lawyer to get them a divorce."



"The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration."


"We Americans are a peculiar people. We are for the underdog, no matter how much of a dog he is."


"But most people don't come up to me and express a lot of emotion."



"I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild."
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