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People Quotes


"Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you."


"Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them."


"Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process."



"The current institutionally provided retirement plans will not cover people's needs upon retirement."


"The more we can purge ourselves of the diseases we create the more we can become magnificent people."


"I don't like being a voyeur, looking into other people's marriages."


"Transformation in the world happens when people are healed and start investing in other people."



"If people were really naked and everyone knew what each other was thinking, everyone would probably just laugh... or they'd lock each other up."



"The fact is that America relies on Amtrak to move people."


"I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together."


"People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes."


"The modern world is personal; people want to know intimate things."


"Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another."


"Yeah, the New York Times is very intellectual and very, very prestigious, but it doesn't reach the market that People magazine does."


"But here's the deal: If I were smart, I could figure out curling. If I were even smarter, I could figure out why people would actually watch other people doing it. I have tried. I can't. I can't even figure out the object of the game. Is it like darts? I just don't get it."



"They are very personal, emotional songs - people react to them very strongly."


"There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again."


"They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land."


"I know I'm not going to sing like Aretha Franklin or Elvis Presley or any of those people."


"One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives."


"Many people are target people. Once when Louis B. Mayer insulted me I poured a glass of water over his head."


"You can learn a lot from people who view the world differently than you do."


"People say it's a movie about boxing, but... I don't agree at all. I don't think it's a movie about boxing. Boxing is like a platform. It's just a stage where this is played out."



"The CIA could not face up to the American people and admit that its former employees had conspired to assassinate the President; so from the moment Kennedy's heart stopped beating, the Agency attempted to sweep the whole conspiracy under the rug."


"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."


"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."


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



"Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but that's only when people asked me what I wanted to be. In fact, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I didn't ever believe that I was good enough to be come one."


"The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have a picture in your head and to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need."


"Dark impulses certainly exist in me and, I think, in most people."



"Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for."


"People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city."
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