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People Quotes
"Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words."
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"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."
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"It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important."
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"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."
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"My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about changes to Python internals or at least standard libraries."
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"I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors."
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"Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga."
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"I think that most people really know if it's a really great album."
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"You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad."
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"Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic."
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"The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think."
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"I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in."
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"People ask me why I keep getting injured but I have just had to accept it is one of those things that happen."
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"HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it."
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"It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are."
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"Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve."
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"People who annoy people are the luckiest people in the world."
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"Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set."
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"Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs."
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"If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive."
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"I think a lot of people have a misconception of what the kitchen is about, but you know the grueling part of it is also the pleasure of it. That's why I think you have to have a certain mentality to understand what that is and be able to handle it."
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"When you have an accident, they will save their own people, and those who have worked with you or with the NGOs are left. Unfortunately, this happens always. It is not an excuse at all."
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"People do want to know the personal things. How far is too far to go with personal lives?"
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"It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit."
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"Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word "census," and people fall asleep."
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"I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions."
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"As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if you're a celebrity because people care."
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"The people of Chicago are a proud people - and for good reason."
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"It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding."
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"One of the attractive things about being in Scotland is that we have a very good pipeline of new people coming into the company from the excellent universities around us."
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