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People Quotes


"You have to do things people see or you don't get to do anything."


"Listen, my day job is also Chief Creative Officer for Marvel, and it's a very painful job because we publish a lot of books, and there are things I see where I can punch people out. Therefore, we have some new people now, and the kids are going to read our books."


"You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself."


"The reserve currency role seems to add prestige to an area and some people in Europe have talked about the desirability of the euro becoming an international reserve currency."


"Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world."


"But I've worked where they've had animals before, and animal wranglers, the people who raise animals and train animals for films and television, they're all very, very professional."


"Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings."


"If it was up to the U.N., Saddam Hussein would still be killing his own people."


"Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own."


"It's hard to know what to say about somebody like that, except there are people who look for trouble. And trouble is very easy to find when you go looking for it."


"Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good."


"Yeah, we held a junior carp tournament on the St. Lawrence River in New York last August. I hosted that along with a couple of other people."


"I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies."


"People are often afraid for me. They think that I am going to break. I can make it through a set."


"Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I think part of it was he didn't want to be viewed suspiciously by the other people in the White House who rarely go anywhere."


"Learn to ask for what you want. The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for which is precisely where you were before you asked."


"I think it's unconscionable for a Senator from Massachusetts to come down here and tell the people of Florida what's right for them. It's arrogant and irresponsible."


"I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA."


"People understand we're on the doorstep of doing something really historic that will help the American people and strengthen our country for the long run."


"You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That's why, when you play a concerto, you play with a small orchestra, in some place where you don't feel that it is as important as Carnegie Hall."


"Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass."


"Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask."


"So what we have is a president that has brought this issue before the American people. We now understand that we can't wait. We understand every year we wait it gets $600 billion worse."


"All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year."


"When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it."


"People are realizing that color has no bearing on what's known as brotherhood."


"I'm surrounded by it. I have so many lovely people around me who are supportive, gentle, kind and considerate. I'm so grateful for every day that I'm on the planet and that continues to be so."



"There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water."


"President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and their team have failed the American people, and that is why their majority will soon be out the door."


"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members."


"We want to turn our inventory faster than our people."


"We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses."


"It is often said that the magnitude of a people is measured by their ability to know how to win."


"The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people."


"Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not."


"Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up."


"It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong."


"The best defense against these people is to educate parents and children of the dangers that come along with the Internet and by limiting access to certain sites during the school day."


"Four hundred million in India, and millions everywhere, have told you, precisely, that the colored people are not going to die for anybody: they are going to die for their independence."


"Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired from their jobs on its behalf."
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