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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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"Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them."
Sally Quinn
"Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them."
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"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative."
John Stuart Mill
"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative."
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"This magistrate is not the king. The people are the king."
Gouverneur Morris
"This magistrate is not the king. The people are the king."
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"Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you."
Logan Pearsall Smith
"Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you."
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"Well no administration ever wants an independent overseer, and there are very good career people who are in charge of this investigation, but it could get hairy."
Nina Totenberg
"Well no administration ever wants an independent overseer, and there are very good career people who are in charge of this investigation, but it could get hairy."
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"Ideas are more powerful than people."
Jim DeMint
"Ideas are more powerful than people."
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"When you see people suffering and dying and hungry, this job gives you the ability to do something about it."
Frank R. Wolf
"When you see people suffering and dying and hungry, this job gives you the ability to do something about it."
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"I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the know child."
Dick Francis
"I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the know child."
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"As our cities have developed, they've built sometimes small villages or communities that were in place. And we've taken for granted all of that child care, the neighbourliness, the help that you get from people nearby."
Susan Oliver
"As our cities have developed, they've built sometimes small villages or communities that were in place. And we've taken for granted all of that child care, the neighbourliness, the help that you get from people nearby."
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"I ask the vice president to stop dodging the issue with legalese, and acknowledge his continued ties with Halliburton to the American people."
Frank Lautenberg
"I ask the vice president to stop dodging the issue with legalese, and acknowledge his continued ties with Halliburton to the American people."
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"Young people are being elected for School Boards all over the country."
Birch Bayh
"Young people are being elected for School Boards all over the country."
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"Over and over again-in the movie, I have nine different people who have worked for Fox News network who have come forward and talked on camera, three of them anonymously, by the way."
Robert Greenwald
"Over and over again-in the movie, I have nine different people who have worked for Fox News network who have come forward and talked on camera, three of them anonymously, by the way."
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"They had certainly exasperated them, and could not disperse them, as after every charge - and some of these drove the people right against the shutters in the shops in the Strand - they returned again."
Walter Crane
"They had certainly exasperated them, and could not disperse them, as after every charge - and some of these drove the people right against the shutters in the shops in the Strand - they returned again."
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"People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument."
Will Rogers
"People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument."
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"All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people."
Alvar N. C. de Vaca
"All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people."
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"Our country is blessed with a democratic political system that is sensitive to the wishes of our people."
Denzil Douglas
"Our country is blessed with a democratic political system that is sensitive to the wishes of our people."
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"But at a certain point, and I don't really know... people have asked me this. I don't know exactly what it was that pushed me towards directing, but I think it was a naive notion that if I directed I would be able to play all the roles. A kind of greed."
Peter Bogdanovich
"But at a certain point, and I don't really know... people have asked me this. I don't know exactly what it was that pushed me towards directing, but I think it was a naive notion that if I directed I would be able to play all the roles. A kind of greed."
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"Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose."
Dan Gable
"Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose."
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"A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?"
J. D. Hayworth
"A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?"
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"I've learned sometimes you just have to take the bad from people."
Darrell Hammond
"I've learned sometimes you just have to take the bad from people."
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"I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them."
E. V. Lucas
"I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them."
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"I don't think people want to see someone buy a congressional race."
Frank R. Wolf
"I don't think people want to see someone buy a congressional race."
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"There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave."
Louis Kronenberger
"There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave."
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"Two weeks later, we played our first concert and had 100 people there. It was pretty cool."
Will Champion
"Two weeks later, we played our first concert and had 100 people there. It was pretty cool."
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"As a social good, I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order to fool other people about them. They want to appear healthier than they are, smarter, more honest and so forth."
Richard Posner
"As a social good, I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order to fool other people about them. They want to appear healthier than they are, smarter, more honest and so forth."
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"Well, I guess most people would only know me from The O.C. I did a few episodes of Gilmore Girls before that. I was also a client on a lot of lawyer shows."
Adam Brody
"Well, I guess most people would only know me from The O.C. I did a few episodes of Gilmore Girls before that. I was also a client on a lot of lawyer shows."
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"Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it."
Kitty Kelley
"Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it."
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"I didn't want the record to be cold and I don't think it's cold at all. I felt it was very people oriented."
Jon Crosby
"I didn't want the record to be cold and I don't think it's cold at all. I felt it was very people oriented."
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"This meeting was like many of the meetings that I would go to over the course of two years. The only way I can describe it is that, well, the president is like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people. There is no discernible connection."
Paul O'Neill
"This meeting was like many of the meetings that I would go to over the course of two years. The only way I can describe it is that, well, the president is like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people. There is no discernible connection."
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"Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect."
Bryant McGill
"Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect."
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"I'm sure it really is hard to be an oncologist, and actually, more and more people are surviving cancer."
Marcia Wallace
"I'm sure it really is hard to be an oncologist, and actually, more and more people are surviving cancer."
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"I was little impressed with this rough and ready way of persuading people to renew their contracts and decided that I was now quite free of any obligations."
Pietro Mascagni
"I was little impressed with this rough and ready way of persuading people to renew their contracts and decided that I was now quite free of any obligations."
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"Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem."
Benjamin Hoff
"Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem."
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"I know who I am and can deal with the use of Indian mascots... But I know it can be demeaning to a group of people. Maybe it would be all right if they were truly honoring the people and are giving due respect to the people they are representing."
Leonard Little
"I know who I am and can deal with the use of Indian mascots... But I know it can be demeaning to a group of people. Maybe it would be all right if they were truly honoring the people and are giving due respect to the people they are representing."
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"Here's one thing I can't understand: people who are friends with their exes."
Timothy Hutton
"Here's one thing I can't understand: people who are friends with their exes."
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"There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people."
Jean Giraudoux
"There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people."
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"When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people."
Seneca
"When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people."
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"Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist."
Auberon Waugh
"Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist."
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"We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean people."
Evan Bayh
"We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean people."
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"Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions."
Booth Tarkington
"Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions."
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"Well they have an input into policy but in the end governments are elected to put together policy but the good thing about the Wentworth Group is that you know you've got 11 pretty capable people with a lot of good ideas."
John Anderson
"Well they have an input into policy but in the end governments are elected to put together policy but the good thing about the Wentworth Group is that you know you've got 11 pretty capable people with a lot of good ideas."
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"We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones."
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"The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors."
William Hazlitt
"The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors."
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"I'm easy. Put me in an interesting location with good people and I'm there."
Jane Curtin
"I'm easy. Put me in an interesting location with good people and I'm there."
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"Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention."
Simone Weil
"Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention."
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"Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people."
Andre Dubus
"Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people."
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"Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs."
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"In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave."
Naomi Weisstein
"In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave."
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"Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either."
Meg Cabot
"Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either."
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