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People Quotes
"Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices."
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"Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room."
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"We urge all democratic nations and the United Nations to answer the Iraqi Governing Council's call for support for the people of Iraq in making the transition to democracy."
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"To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people."
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"People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy."
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"People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages."
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"Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well."
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"There's this notion that allows people to create their own collection of songs, so it rewrites what a song is. They may only want 10 seconds of something, or they may only want this particular song, or they want this group of songs. It becomes much more user-controlled."
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"A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions."
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"It will never be Hollywood, the same way people think it should be. I think it will grow and it will be healthy and it will expand into more than one production house."
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"I think if we're going to live in this - in this world - in this technological world where information can be disseminated so quickly, we have to be serious and take firm, strong action against those who are putting American lives at risk. Because this will put people's lives at risk."
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"There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on."
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"Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives."
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"I hope you will respond to the crisis of confidence that Watergate has created by opening up your administration and reaching out to people in a more magnanimous spirit."
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"I don't know if it matters what country you're from, size of the city you're from, urban or rural, there are people that are hurting each other everywhere."
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"I'm a judge. It seemed to me that it was critical to try to take action to stem the criticism and help people understand that in the constitutional framework, it's terribly important not to have a system of retaliation against decisions people don't like."
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"It's totally different. I usually don't tell people about the Pleased if they know me from the harp. And if they are there to see the Pleased, I usually don't tell them about the harp. I am nervous that these people will expect something similar."
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"One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing."
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"Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don't limit myself."
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"Well, for one thing, the executives in charge at Cartoon Network are cartoon fans. I mean, these are people who grew up loving animation and loving cartoons, and the only difference between them and me is they don't know how to draw."
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"Everyone is different, but I'm not standoffish at all. I'm not one of those people who prefer to write a note. I'll walk right up to you and ask you out! Even if the answer's no, I'm totally cool with it."
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"Even if you do succeed most people wouldn't notice anyway."
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"If you don't want to deal with them, fine. But don't hamper other people from dealing with them."
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"We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition."
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"There are congressmen in our congregation, judges, federal reserve governors. And there are also people who are homeless and some who are mentally ill. To be able to talk to each of those people is something that I've had to learn how to do over the years."
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"Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think."
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"The best people I know have had a lot of obstacles to overcome."
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"Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood."
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"The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists."
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"If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming."
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"People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools."
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"I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that."
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"This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute such motives to another man is to imply you're harboring them yourself."
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"It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for."
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"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."
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