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People Quotes


"People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift."


"Is it possible that my people live in such awful conditions? I tell you, Mr Wheatley, that if I had to live in conditions like that I would be a revolutionary myself."


"When people tell you they saw your last picture - well, the way they say it sounds like they hope it was."


"Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place."


"Having had cancer, one important thing to know is you're still the same person at the end. You're stripped down to near zero. But most people come out the other end feeling more like themselves than ever before."


"I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try."


"I'm just honored that people still like us and people are still nice to me."


"To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people."


"Bobby was one of the few people I had ever known who really wanted to do something for me."


"As soon as people see my face on a movie screen, they knew two things: first, I'm not going to get the girl, and second, I'll get a cheap funeral before the picture is over."


"The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world."


"The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. We are guardian of rights, and we have to tell people things they often do not like to hear."


"If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy."


"The world is divided into people who do things - and people who get the credit."


"The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk. It happened with anybody who is really original."


"But a lot of businesses out there don't see the return on investment, they look at it as a liability, and until they can understand that proactive security actually returns, gives them a return on investment, it's still a hard sell for people."


"The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods."


"All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They."


"If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur."


"The Iraqi people are living better lives now than three year ago, no longer living in fear."


"Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, sometimes very emotionally, any attempts to analyze this notion."


"What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things."


"I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression."


"We had such a wonderful set of circumstances in Wilmington. Yes, the four of us became famous literally overnight, but we were in a small town and we always knew when people were coming down. We always knew when to behave."


"How do we know that Moses was grown up? Because he went out unto his brethren, and was ready to bear the burdens and share the plight of his people. Maturity is sensitivity to human suffering."



"Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss."


"A lot of people say I'm bent, and I've heard it so many times that I've almost learned to accept it."


"Now we are using the body scanner to scan the pilots. They became the dangerous people of this country?"
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