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People Quotes


"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."


"In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened."


"It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die."


"I know the district. I know a lot of people in the district. I know how to get where I'm going."


"America is hungry for people who believe in something."


"The whole point is to hook people and keep them interested."


"I would like to see us find Osama Bin Laden, but let's say we did capture him. Let's say we did kill him. How much good would that do? There's still thousands of people behind him. It's this huge thing."


"You'll find superstition a contagious thing. Some people let it get the better of them."



"I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930."


"People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh."


"It is amazing how nice people are to you when they know you're going away."


"People want riches; they need fulfillment."


"The administration is using the devastation of Hurricane Katrina to cut the wages of people desperately trying to rebuild their lives and their communities."



"I don't want to have people brought in simply because they are black or Asian."


"It is so weird to be on this side of that, because when you're starting out, and it seems like you're starting out for so long, you look up to the people who have made their mark. And you sort of want to be that."



"Look at all the billionaires. If I know 15 billionaires, I know 13 unhappy people."


"Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, original... and the rest are generally following on, copying."


"People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid."


"After The Matrix, I cannot wear sunglasses. As soon as I put them on, people recognize me."


"I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made."


"There are people walking around the streets of Kansas City who are unemployed, while one of our largest employers is not only sending jobs aboard, but then turning around and making a statement about preserving jobs."



"The thing about hip-hop is that it's from the underground, ideas from the underbelly, from people who have mostly been locked out, who have not been recognized."


"People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think."



"Across the board, people are looking at the problem, but simply not changing anywhere near fast enough."


"I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!"



"I know my flaws before other people point them out to me."


"People who produce good results feel good about themselves."


"The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined."


"I've always held to the belief, though, that people who do too much acting training always look like they're acting, you know?"


"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them."


"From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people's good."


"An awful lot of people think it's easy to lift recipes out."


"And for a very special group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don't want a hand out just a hand. We are happy to give them one."


"What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people."


"There certainly have been a lot of changes, although they come in such gradations that most people have either forgotten, or, if they're too young, they never knew about them in the first place."


"Ronald Reagan gave our party a bowling alley image as opposed to a country club image. We were talking to people who go bowling on Thursday night, and they were understanding what we were saying."
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