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People Quotes


"Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing."


"The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves."



"Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad."


"The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people."


"About 30 million people see me every week - I'm a happy man."


"It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people."


"You're an unusual person," she said."Bill didn't like you, but he never likes anything different. He's so-so prosaic. Don't you think that when a person gets older he should become-broadened in his outlook?"



"Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire."


"I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people."


"In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage."


"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."


"There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies."



"Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less."


"I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy."


"I try to make films that move people when they are in the theater and make them think only after they leave."


"Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice."


"Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country."


"Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear."


"One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged."


"I've had. It's the real me. People don't deserve anything less."



"As long as there are only 3 to 4 people on the floor, the country is in good hands. It's only when you have 50 to 60 in the Senate that you want to be concerned."


"During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet."


"People are usually afraid to say what's on their mind."


"Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not."


"We're from the ghetto. Venus is a ghetto Cinderella. People from the ghetto don't get nervous."
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