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People Quotes
"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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"The scientists at the end of the 19th century had people coming to them with this weird behaviour, and they didn't know what was going on but there seemed to be a similarity. They needed an answer, so they made up one."
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"I don't care what people think. people are stupid."
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"Laughter is the closest distance between two people."
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"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
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"I'll sing as long as people want to hear me, and I'll be able to sing as long as I'm alive."
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"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
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"People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude."
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"People are going to get older and young guys are going to come in and race and get more competitive."
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"People always expect you to be jumping out of a Rolls Royce and being in the papers for drunk and disorderly or sleeping around."
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"I think English people were a lot better at breakdancing than they were at making records."
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"I can't tell you how many people have asked me to show them Stray Cat Strut and that little diminished run on the C. I guess my brain is wired backwards. I don't know what possessed me to do that, but I did."
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"I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA."
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"You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people."
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"This is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of... well, my grandfather was a minister and sort of Protestant, and this was rather depressing to me."
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"I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure."
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"There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water."
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"My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people."
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"The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed."
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"We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory."
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"You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right."
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"If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness."
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"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."
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"My only obligation is to keep myself and other people guessing."
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"When I was a kid, people who got divorced were people who had no gumption."
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"One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you."
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"Like my colleagues, I did about 10 to 15 town hall meetings on this issue; and what I found is people came with a sincere interest to learn, a sincere interest to cut through the rhetoric and understand how this Medicare bill impacts them in their daily lives."
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"You can't inspire people if you are going to be uninspiring."
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"I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on."
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"I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it."
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"Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people."
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