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People Quotes


"People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy."


"Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people."


"All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions."


"Of course we have Queen Elizabeth as head of state, but in many ways we are a kind of republic. We don't have royals in Australia, so it was kind of unusual to run into those kind of people. But aside from that it was quite ordinary."


"I looked like an alien, and in front of the most beautiful people on TV."


"People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile."



"I just feel energized when I am around young, talented people. There is something about these kids that's amazing. I learn as much from them as they do from me."


"I believe people who are looking for a fresh idea and spirit have received Danielson. The conservative Christian press have been quite mean to us, but the mainstream "secular" press has been very, very nice."


"We know that when people are safe in their homes, they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families."



"Hollywood is a place that attracts people with massive holes in their souls."


"I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated."



"When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right."


"Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts."


"I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to."


"Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one."



"Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do."


"More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people."


"But last year there were 540,000 people, roughly, detained coming across the border illegally. Forty-five thousand of them came from countries other than Mexico, demonstrating the fact that Mexico itself now is a pathway into the United States for people all around the world, and we don't know what their intentions are."


"I've been doing everything I can to reach out and understand why people voted against me. They were trying to send a message. I have to be more sensitive in the way I express myself, and I have to be more thoughtful in the positions I take."


"According to the percentage people, you would be perfectly comfortable."


"People are, well, only human. We know that. The rule of law is borne out in identifying, condemning, and punishing those who violate the standards on which we all agree. This is exactly what we do in America."



"I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a way people who don't have to worry about such things never learned to prize it really, I believe."



"Popstars really draws you in. It's fascinating. It's interesting to watch people thrown together in that kind of a situation. Even if the egos weren't involved and they weren't trying to be world famous. It's the Real World, only better."



"What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible."


"Our intention is to give people, however you might stylize it, a tax cut or a pay raise."
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