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People Quotes
"I believe that a contract, or at least an understanding, exists between the American public and the American advertiser concerning what advertising is, what its limitations are and what price people will pay for it."
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"Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public."
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"When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country."
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"The United Nations cannot stand by and witness the destruction of the people of West Papua."
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"The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed."
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"I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so."
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"I like to make people look as good as they'd like to look, and with luck, a shade better."
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"I think people are going to have a choice to make in the fall. But I think there's no doubt there are enough seats in play that could cause Republicans to gain control. There's no doubt about that."
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"As I got more successful, I felt it was more incumbent upon me to help the other people. I did more and more and the more I did the more I wanted."
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"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."
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"It's not important to how the band functions or to what we do. That's just many people's opinions on what they see. A lot of people project stuff on you, but that's okay."
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"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."
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"Whenever I meet people who seem really sweet and unassuming, I kind of wonder about them."
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"Why thrust your kid into that? You try to protect them from all the bad people out there."
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"There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second."
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"Two people could build an outhouse in four hours. They're not complicated."
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"I know all about you. You're the people waiting on the shoreline with the warm towels and the hot chocolate after the woman swims the English Channel."
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"I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe."
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"There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter."
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"People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate."
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"I like doing radio because it's so intimate. The moment people hear your voice, you're inside there heads, not only that, you're in there laying eggs."
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"Oh, the miraculous energy that flows between two people who care enough to get beyond surfaces and games, who are willing to take the risks of being totally open, of listening, of responding with the whole heart. How much we can do for each other."
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"The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make."
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"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree."
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"We have people who are healers and those who posses a certain animal magnetism."
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"It's flattering to make a picture which becomes a classic within 10 years; it's not so flattering, however, when people get the impression it's the only picture you've ever made."
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"I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way."
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"Since far fewer people are recruited to serve in a voluntary military, the connection between America and its military is increasingly tenuous and less personal."
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"When people are smiling they are most receptive to almost anything you want to teach them."
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"A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them."
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"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."
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"Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well."
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"This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance."
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"I understand about the relative strengths of people, and I don't think people have to be anything. They can be nothin' if they want to be."
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"It's a little gross to put yourself in every song. I mean, how interesting do people really think you are?"
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