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"States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions."
Noam Chomsky
"States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions."
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"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."
Earle Brown
"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."
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"I do feel that the trend is away from ageism and toward a recognition that older people have a unique voice."
Daniel Petrie
"I do feel that the trend is away from ageism and toward a recognition that older people have a unique voice."
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"I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different."
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"I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me."
Thomas Merton
"I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me."
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"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."
Evan Thomas
"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."
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"For too long, Democrats have been telling people what they want to hear. I'm going to tell you what I believe."
Deval Patrick
"For too long, Democrats have been telling people what they want to hear. I'm going to tell you what I believe."
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"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."
Gouverneur Morris
"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."
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"It is my really sincere desire that we get an opportunity to play long enough for people to really grab on and become fans, because I think it's a great project."
Ron Glass
"It is my really sincere desire that we get an opportunity to play long enough for people to really grab on and become fans, because I think it's a great project."
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"Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection?"
Steven Pinker
"Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection?"
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"No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other."
Thomas Berger
"No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other."
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"I only knew a few people, literally a handful of people, al of whom had been in the Party long before I was, all of whom were known by the FBI and were known to the Committee."
Edward Dmytryk
"I only knew a few people, literally a handful of people, al of whom had been in the Party long before I was, all of whom were known by the FBI and were known to the Committee."
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"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."
Kenneth Koch
"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."
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"Forty years ago, we were on the tail of the Front Page era. There was a different point of view. Reporters and editors were more forgiving of public people. They didn't think they had to stick someone in jail to make a career."
Mike Royko
"Forty years ago, we were on the tail of the Front Page era. There was a different point of view. Reporters and editors were more forgiving of public people. They didn't think they had to stick someone in jail to make a career."
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"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."
Kenneth More
"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."
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"What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those people encountering and that I want to explore - it all proceeds sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, and scene by scene."
Chaim Potok
"What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those people encountering and that I want to explore - it all proceeds sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, and scene by scene."
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"The next release of mainline is going to have a lot of the advanced features people want, by the way."
Bram Cohen
"The next release of mainline is going to have a lot of the advanced features people want, by the way."
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"Many of America's historical cornbreads were staple breads for people who didn't have many other options."
Jeremy Jackson
"Many of America's historical cornbreads were staple breads for people who didn't have many other options."
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"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."
Michael Hayden
"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."
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"A lot of people are upset that I'm not working. They say it's a disgrace."
Marcel Carne
"A lot of people are upset that I'm not working. They say it's a disgrace."
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"In some ways that fight gave me more respect around the world and helped me be even more popular because so many people felt my pain and saw that I was robbed."
Marvin Hagler
"In some ways that fight gave me more respect around the world and helped me be even more popular because so many people felt my pain and saw that I was robbed."
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"There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old."
Barry Took
"There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old."
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"I am not a lesbian and I am not a slut, and somehow I am going to make people believe me."
Vanessa Williams
"I am not a lesbian and I am not a slut, and somehow I am going to make people believe me."
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"Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do."
Will Rogers
"Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do."
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"How can one know anything at all about people?"
Anna Freud
"How can one know anything at all about people?"
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"It's good to get out of the closet and talk about it and find out other people's views."
Heather Matarazzo
"It's good to get out of the closet and talk about it and find out other people's views."
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"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."
Amanda Burton
"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."
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"Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are."
Robert Motherwell
"Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are."
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"After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?"
Russell Hoban
"After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?"
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"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."
Jon Favreau
"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."
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"I was a lousy waiter, dealing with people and having people in your face like that."
Judge Reinhold
"I was a lousy waiter, dealing with people and having people in your face like that."
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"I was what? - twelve years old - and I was thrown in the cells with these people, so I learned fast."
Gregory Corso
"I was what? - twelve years old - and I was thrown in the cells with these people, so I learned fast."
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"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."
Bill Alexander
"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."
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"I like roles that people don't recognize me in."
Penelope Cruz
"I like roles that people don't recognize me in."
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"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."
John Sayles
"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."
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"Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great."
Edmund White
"Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great."
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"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."
Julie Taymor
"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."
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"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."
Kay Bailey Hutchison
"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."
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"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."
Andy Van Slyke
"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."
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"It really doesn't matter to me what people say about me anymore."
Aimee Mann
"It really doesn't matter to me what people say about me anymore."
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"Bing Crosby sings like all people think they sing in the shower."
Dinah Shore
"Bing Crosby sings like all people think they sing in the shower."
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"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."
Bill Irwin
"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."
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"I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it's really important to me to give people who look like me a chance to see themselves. I want to see myself as the hero of any story. I want to see myself save the world from the bomb."
Sandra Oh
"I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it's really important to me to give people who look like me a chance to see themselves. I want to see myself as the hero of any story. I want to see myself save the world from the bomb."
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"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."
Frank Lautenberg
"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."
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"The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep."
Alan Patrick Herbert
"The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep."
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"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."
Claire Trevor
"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."
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"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."
Sally Quinn
"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."
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"We Americans are a peculiar people. We are for the underdog, no matter how much of a dog he is."
Happy Chandler
"We Americans are a peculiar people. We are for the underdog, no matter how much of a dog he is."
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"But most people don't come up to me and express a lot of emotion."
Jim Hodges
"But most people don't come up to me and express a lot of emotion."
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"I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild."
Tina Weymouth
"I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild."
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