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People Quotes


"We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third of the gay movement voted Republican."


"I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss them if other people want to discuss them."


"Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts."


"I was not someone who participated in other people's castles."


"You can't inspire people if you are going to be uninspiring."


"Influenza is a serious disease. Kids die of influenza, both in Japan and the United States, and if you give a drug to people who are at risk of dying, there will be people who die who got the drug,... There is no signal the drug is doing it as opposed to the disease."


"I knew that people were going to talk about it, I knew it was embarrassing, and I knew it was a big deal. But did I think that it was going to be this thing that followed me for, you know, the next years to come? I guarantee you, 25 years from now, I'll be known as the girl that lip synced on 'SNL.' But, you know, it was a weird thing. Not fun."


"People give me things at shows-the Robot from Japan. What I would treasure the most is a little doll of the general from the movie-and if they don't make it, I'll make my own and bring it to shows and sign it."


"The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live."


"You've got a beautiful country with so many beautiful people and so many beautiful things happening and stuff like that lets it down. I feel sad for them."


"When people use your brand name as a verb, that is remarkable."


"But these days there are a lot of younger people who would like to go into teaching but don't because the economic opportunities are sometimes elsewhere."


"There are so many people who have died of cycling, and that didn't happen when I was racing."


"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses."


"When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it."


"I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it."


"Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be enough to pay for either retirement or healthcare."


"They didn't sell, people just weren't used to the idea of living in apartments."


"Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality."


"I'm quite looking forward to the fact that people know me as Richard rather than Craig."


"People have been convinced that growth for growth's sake is a good thing."


"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."


"I don't like hawking 'round other people's memories. That wasn't part of the deal when I was born."


"I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known."


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


"I really haven't been cognitive of gas prices. It wasn't until I filled up my husband's Toyota Prius Hybrid that I had a moment of understanding of how people who drive gas cars feel."


"So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people. Let us have a moral victory that can shine as a light to all nations."



"They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon."


"We actually have a real community of people doing useful things."


"If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy."


"I guess what bothers me so much about what I now see going on in both Washington and in Texas is an effort to keep people from finding out about the mistakes of lawmakers and then when they're uncovered, an effort to fool people and pretend there was nothing wrong."


"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."


"In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves."
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