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People Quotes
"This is the most terrible thing that can happen in a friendly country if Thai people have to escape from the backdoor of an embassy."
172
"On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar."
170
"After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity."
170
"We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened."
170
"In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations."
169
"When a new generation watches the films, people might mention that it has improved their lovemaking. I guess it's because it isn't threatening. It was very sweet and delicate."
168
"How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out."
167
"The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world."
166
"The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight."
164
"The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun."
163
"For me, there are no my people and strangers, no bad people and good people. All people are equal for me."
162
"I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them."
162
"People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it."
162
"I want to encourage our people, to educate our people to have the courage to understand and fight for their rights."
161
"When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa."
161
"More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago."
161
"Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice."
160
"I am affected by what is around. I don't think many people would admit that."
159
"I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation."
159
"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing."
159
"Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories."
158
"The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants."
157
"Some people have active imaginations, but they don't know me and they're wrong if they think they do."
156
"I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but I still have my whole career ahead of me."
156
"We are a people who can bring about miracles if united."
156
"I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country."
155
"More and more people in my country recognise the dangers of having their governors appointed by Putin and having no influence in parliament because Parliament today is also following instructions from Kremlin and no longer represents its people."
154
"Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show us what you can do."
154
"It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here."
154
"I know the Haitian people because I am the Haitian people."
154
"Don't you know, priests, why our sermons do not touch the people's heart? Because we do not preach to the eyes, only to the ears."
153
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