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People Quotes


"Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results."


"When something is troubling me, people know about it."


"People were actually approaching me on the street and thinking that I was an athlete. They couldn't quite place it, but a runner, or swimmer or something."


"Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy."


"But some people will say you just did these programs. Well, yes, the programs are important and I'm proud of the programs, but mostly I'm proud of the way the San Francisco Symphony plays these programs."


"Sometimes, instead of purchasing a commodity out and out, people want to buy only the use of it, for a longer or shorter period. The price paid for such temporary use is commonly called hire."


"There is no question of the benefits that opening a market of a billion people will bring to American businesses. But as I said last year, this will test China and the world trade system."


"If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them."


"People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that."


"Some people like to do everything always the same thing. That's another way: To do the same thing."


"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."


"A company is only as good as the people it keeps."


"There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were."


"Maybe It's not the biggest blockbuster film, but there will be some people that will see it, that will be debating it, that will be questioning their own sense of spirituality. If the film resonates, then I have succeeded in what I set out to do."


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


"People don't realize who this band is always been because we're so young, and it's hard to get over that stigma."


"The infrastructure of the US is a long-term suspension of disbelief that such things won't be exploded deliberately by people who don't create anything."


"Some of the most miserable people I know are some of the richest people in America, they are the most miserable individuals I've ever seen."


"I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am."


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


"I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it."


"My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people."


"Why do we need to wait until somebody sells 10 million records to give people a show like that? What about us smaller, hungry folk? At least gimme a curtain!"


"We always see the innocent victims in the stories, and I am a little bored with that. I am much more interested in the price paid by the people who can fly."


"He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really."


"I can't stand being around anal people, especially anal people with big egos."


"I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back."


"First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas."


"I think good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess. You don't actually consummate it, but you get to pretend, imagine what it would be like."


"I've got news for you: There are going to be people other than Christians in the hereafter. What are you going to do about it? Are you not going to go?"


"I represent a district covering Rockland, Westchester and Bronx counties, all of which are part of the 9 million people that this water is so important for."


"I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human."


"People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps."


"We aren't people who believe that just because we're performers our opinions on everything need to be known."
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