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People Quotes


"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."


"Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do."


"Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included."


"I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience."


"I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues."


"And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area."


"You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about."


"In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to."


"It is the earnest hope of our people that the world may see the day when all nuclear weapons are abolished."


"The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so."


"For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples."


"I wonder what kind of lives they will have built for themselves when they turn 45 and can't really have any connection with people because they are so used to fleeting sexual."


"For some people, their idea of getting tough is longer suspended sentences."



"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."


"I think people tuned in a lot to see Barbara when she first came here and they just didn't like the show they saw. I think it was dull. It was sterile."


"You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right."


"I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world."


"But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside."


"I understand people who boo us. It's like going to Broadway show, you pay for your tickets and expect to be entertained. When you're not, you have a right to complain."


"If you can't laugh at yourself, then how can you laugh at anybody else? I think people see the human side of you when you do that."


"I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair."


"But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth."


"There was an opening in the ER program at King Drew, so I spent the next month there, fascinated with the range of pathology that I observed, the diversity of skill that the ER physicians had to acquire, the variety of cases, and the ability to interact closely with people."



"It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed."


"You can feel like, 'I look really bad', but to other people you can be really gorgeous."
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