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"For some people, their idea of getting tough is longer suspended sentences."
Jeremy Larner
"For some people, their idea of getting tough is longer suspended sentences."
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"People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States."
Louis de Bernieres
"People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States."
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"I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don't expect people to hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you and unzip your fly for you."
Shel Silverstein
"I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don't expect people to hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you and unzip your fly for you."
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"I'm in that comfortable niche where I'm not that famous and sometimes people do need to put a barrier between them and their followers. When you're real famous you need to do that but I'm not that famous so I don't need that kind of barrier."
Tony Levin
"I'm in that comfortable niche where I'm not that famous and sometimes people do need to put a barrier between them and their followers. When you're real famous you need to do that but I'm not that famous so I don't need that kind of barrier."
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"There should be a moral principle there that says, let's green the ghetto first. Let's go to those communities where they have the least ability to pay for that retrofit and make sure they get that help, make sure they get that support. And give the young people standing on those corners the opportunity to put down those handguns and pick up some caulking guns and be a part of the solution."
Van Jones
"There should be a moral principle there that says, let's green the ghetto first. Let's go to those communities where they have the least ability to pay for that retrofit and make sure they get that help, make sure they get that support. And give the young people standing on those corners the opportunity to put down those handguns and pick up some caulking guns and be a part of the solution."
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"These people hate the United States, not for what we do, but for who we are and what we are."
Paul Bremer
"These people hate the United States, not for what we do, but for who we are and what we are."
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"People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent."
Bob Black
"People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent."
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"To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
Richard Henry Lee
"To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
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"I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all over this country saying public supports restoration in restoration of the Everglades, protection of the parks and the creation of monuments."
Bruce Babbitt
"I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all over this country saying public supports restoration in restoration of the Everglades, protection of the parks and the creation of monuments."
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"People tend to believe the bad rather than the good."
Giovanni Boccaccio
"People tend to believe the bad rather than the good."
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"A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in."
Anita Brookner
"A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in."
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"No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will."
Euripides
"No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will."
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"And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world."
Anne Frank
"And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world."
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"I think that, you know, this is a different year than most years. We've got to tell the American people that we have to live with less. We have a $13.5 trillion debt. And the only way to do that is an honest campaign with honest people."
Ken Buck
"I think that, you know, this is a different year than most years. We've got to tell the American people that we have to live with less. We have a $13.5 trillion debt. And the only way to do that is an honest campaign with honest people."
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"Most people I run into say, I haven't missed an episode. Either you like Survivor or you don't, but if you do, you're a loyal viewer."
Jeff Probst
"Most people I run into say, I haven't missed an episode. Either you like Survivor or you don't, but if you do, you're a loyal viewer."
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"Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the emotion of the great melodies, even without the words."
Kenny G
"Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the emotion of the great melodies, even without the words."
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"The important part of the present development is the anti-capitalist sentiment that is permeating our people."
Gregor Strasser
"The important part of the present development is the anti-capitalist sentiment that is permeating our people."
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"The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present."
Lane Kirkland
"The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present."
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"Sitting here now today, I can forgive a lot of the English people because it only takes a hand full of bad people to do something stupid like that and it can make the whole country look bad."
Marvin Hagler
"Sitting here now today, I can forgive a lot of the English people because it only takes a hand full of bad people to do something stupid like that and it can make the whole country look bad."
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"At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, 'No, that's what people want, so that's what is given.' But it's not in your control. It's just what happens to you, and that's what's frightening."
Julia Ormond
"At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, 'No, that's what people want, so that's what is given.' But it's not in your control. It's just what happens to you, and that's what's frightening."
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"I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about, say, pink people except that they're black."
Larry Rivers
"I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about, say, pink people except that they're black."
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"In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall."
Bob Dylan
"In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall."
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"Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right."
Steve Harvey
"Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right."
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"Don't you hear people saying things you can't believe they're saying?"
Joel Schumacher
"Don't you hear people saying things you can't believe they're saying?"
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"Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places."
Brian Aldiss
"Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places."
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"Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges."
Bob Dylan
"Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges."
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"People have said to me 'I hope you won't let happen in Washington what is happening in Kansas.'"
Dennis Moore
"People have said to me 'I hope you won't let happen in Washington what is happening in Kansas.'"
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"I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people."
Carol Kane
"I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people."
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"When Americans invade Iraq, Bush says, we will be greeted as liberators by the Iraqi people, proving that taking out Saddam Hussein was the right thing to do."
Howard Fineman
"When Americans invade Iraq, Bush says, we will be greeted as liberators by the Iraqi people, proving that taking out Saddam Hussein was the right thing to do."
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"When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature."
Ernest Hemingway
"When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature."
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"I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other."
Russell Simmons
"I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other."
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"I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever."
Sam J. Jones
"I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever."
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"When something hasn't been around much for a while, and one example of it turns up and catches people's eyes, they go looking for more like it - until they get tired of it again."
Stanley Schmidt
"When something hasn't been around much for a while, and one example of it turns up and catches people's eyes, they go looking for more like it - until they get tired of it again."
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"Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain some level of comfort."
Julian Schnabel
"Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain some level of comfort."
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"I've seen the hell these people go through."
Darrell Hammond
"I've seen the hell these people go through."
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"Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves."
Alexis de Tocqueville
"Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves."
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"The stopping of the Judicial courts, had been blended, in the minds of some people, with the redress of grievances considered only as a mode of awakening the attention of the legislature."
George Richards Minot
"The stopping of the Judicial courts, had been blended, in the minds of some people, with the redress of grievances considered only as a mode of awakening the attention of the legislature."
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"Of a very religious linebacker: He knocks the hell out of people, but in a Christian way."
Sammy Baugh
"Of a very religious linebacker: He knocks the hell out of people, but in a Christian way."
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"People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy."
Anton Chekhov
"People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy."
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"If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will."
David Swift
"If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will."
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"A lot of things that I can't get into the room for, even just to be seen, is because they're just saying 'No. they're not casting non-white.' You're lumped into a category with people who are just not white."
Sandra Oh
"A lot of things that I can't get into the room for, even just to be seen, is because they're just saying 'No. they're not casting non-white.' You're lumped into a category with people who are just not white."
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"People keep pushing me to be the center of attention... I would prefer to be on the sidelines, because that's where you see more."
Gong Li
"People keep pushing me to be the center of attention... I would prefer to be on the sidelines, because that's where you see more."
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"The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument."
Max Roach
"The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument."
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"People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them."
Dave Barry
"People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them."
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"Everything is more complicated than it looks to most people."
Frederick Lewis Allen
"Everything is more complicated than it looks to most people."
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"The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's."
Mason Cooley
"The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's."
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"Sam Walton's values are: treat the customer right, take care of your people, be honest in your dealings, pass savings along to the customer, keep things simple, think small, control costs and continuously improve operations."
Michael Bergdahl
"Sam Walton's values are: treat the customer right, take care of your people, be honest in your dealings, pass savings along to the customer, keep things simple, think small, control costs and continuously improve operations."
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"A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate."
Julien Green
"A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate."
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"I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen."
Carson McCullers
"I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen."
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"As so often happens with Washington scandals, it isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up."
Tom Petri
"As so often happens with Washington scandals, it isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up."
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