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People Quotes


"We need to take responsibility and educate people. That's why black folks don't like me. I always say it's our responsibility to make safe neighborhoods. It's our job to get them cleaned up."


"Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave."


"President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and their team have failed the American people, and that is why their majority will soon be out the door."


"People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz."


"A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you."


"I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear?"


"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."


"The people who influence you are the people who believe in you."


"I'm the guy, I'm kind of like the, uh, Everyman, so I think people just relate to that."


"Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!"


"Mel is nuts. He puts on a suit and a tie and acts like a normal person so people think he's okay. He's definitely out in left field. He's got the ambition of a boy."


"If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice."


"It's hard to notice things without people noticing me and that takes some getting used to."


"If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on."


"I try to support groups that are about educating people about different races, different religions, different cultures and different situations so that we can break down the barriers of prejudice and bigotry."


"Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people."


"Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying."


"Being a Southern person and a blonde, it's not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you, they think of you as not being smart."


"I want people who will stand up to me. People who are not afraid to say exactly what's on their minds, even though that's probably not what I want to hear. That's what I want."


"The best defense against these people is to educate parents and children of the dangers that come along with the Internet and by limiting access to certain sites during the school day."


"These people are amazing. It's so emotional I was thinking about wearing waterproof mascara."


"If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience."


"I think that people who have Vegas throat are people who sing from their throats only."


"Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose."


"In my own sphere I did everything that could possibly be expected of a man who believes in the greatness of his people and who is filled with fanaticism for the greatness of his country, in order to bring about the victory of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist movement."


"Because I was in Atlanta, people didn't realize I'm one of the real forefathers in the game."


"In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals."


"When you're out there with thousands of people it's probably better to have a bigger show to look at, and it turned out really well and they videoed it for me."


"For the Archivist, this role is a result of his obligation to preserve and assure timely and maximum access to our governmental records in the evolving historic saga of the American people."


"I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion."


"The participation in European elections was always not very exciting. People are very interested in European issues, but they don't see the person who is representing Europe."


"It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark."


"There's nothing like walking out and watching the people get turned on. Nothing in the world could replace it."


"Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives."


"No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden and win libel suits, and in those cases I think they ought to win."


"I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50's when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn't win the Tony Award."


"Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that."
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