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People Quotes


"Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition."


"I think the number one thing that I find important is the importance of honesty with your friends and your parents, if you can be. But I think that telling people how you really feel, being who you truly are, being safe and taking care of yourself is the most important thing."


"People think that I'm a really outgoing person because of how I am on stage. But I'm not. I'm really shy."


"People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to."


"I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?"


"I think smart is sexy. I like smart people. People that are comfortable with themselves I think is very sexy. My cat is really sexy."


"I think it will bring back discussion about Columbine. When Columbine happened it was the topic of the week, and we shouldn't have just moved on to something else. Whether people like the film or not, it's going to make them think about what happened."


"People say, You paid your dues, but I never paid any dues. It's always been a great trip."


"Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the other way around, which is not very helpful."


"The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods."


"I'm a judge. It seemed to me that it was critical to try to take action to stem the criticism and help people understand that in the constitutional framework, it's terribly important not to have a system of retaliation against decisions people don't like."


"If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities."


"Good gossip is just what's going on. Bad gossip is stuff that is salacious, mean, and bitchy; the kind most people really enjoy."


"It doesn't worry me that people have criticised the building."


"Yeah, yeah. I, I don't think I'm always right. But I don't think young people are always right, either."


"Olympians are the product of the Movement, and to get them to the stadiums, pools and playing fields, it takes the actions of legions of people who might not be Olympians."


"Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud."


"We need to put undercover security armed people at the curbside of the terminal with the uniform of policemen. We need to protect the terminal. We need to protect the security checkpoint, the gate, the aircraft, the perimeter."


"Mike Leigh encourages you to choose a person that you know to base your character on. You write a whole list of people that you know and you go through that list in great depth with him. And then he chooses one of those people from your list."


"I'm excited and encouraged to see people getting involved with their public lands and forests. We really need the public's help to repair these heavily used recreation sites."


"If you don't want to deal with them, fine. But don't hamper other people from dealing with them."


"There were schools and hospitals who were ready to take people with undescribed injuries, but not necessarily ready to take people with severe radiation poisoning."


"Bush is a frat boy in the White House but we've had that before. But I wasn't one of those people that was threatening to leave the country. By the way none of those people have left the country. Alec Baldwin is still here."


"I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters."


"A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job."


"There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices."


"But some people will say you just did these programs. Well, yes, the programs are important and I'm proud of the programs, but mostly I'm proud of the way the San Francisco Symphony plays these programs."


"I deal with first-hand sources. And give the people, even John Sununu, the opportunity to respond to what I've been told by first-hand sources."


"Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own."


"Sometimes people who get wealthy when they are very, very young, it's a curse to them. They don't realize it."
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