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People Quotes


"I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen."



"Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them."


"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative."


"This magistrate is not the king. The people are the king."


"Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you."


"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."



"When you see people suffering and dying and hungry, this job gives you the ability to do something about it."



"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."


"I ask the vice president to stop dodging the issue with legalese, and acknowledge his continued ties with Halliburton to the American people."


"Young people are being elected for School Boards all over the country."



"People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument."


"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."


"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."


"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?"


"I've learned sometimes you just have to take the bad from people."


"I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them."



"I don't think people want to see someone buy a congressional race."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect."


"I'm sure it really is hard to be an oncologist, and actually, more and more people are surviving cancer."


"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."


"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."



"Here's one thing I can't understand: people who are friends with their exes."


"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."


"Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist."


"We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean people."


"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."


"We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones."


"I'm easy. Put me in an interesting location with good people and I'm there."



"Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention."


"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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