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People Quotes
"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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"The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it."
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"Working with (new collaborators) and letting people in to try new melodies and new lyrical ideas was very hard."
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"I absolutely believe in assimilation. I don't believe I'm any different from straight people. My wants and needs are the same as theirs. I don't look at sexual orientation as that big of a deal. It's just an orientation."
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"I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points."
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"I can certainly see how people are overcome by depression."
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"Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired from their jobs on its behalf."
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"One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you."
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"We must level with the people and explain to them that Social Security will first face funding problems in 2042 that can be fixed now with changes that do not undermine and ultimately drain from the entire program."
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"At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there'd be one or two or three people there drawing the model but otherwise you had abstractions all around the room, even though the model was in front of you."
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"I think that this liberal progressive agenda is not the thing that the American people want and it's antithesis to who we are as a constitutional republic."
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"So our films had a lot more to them than entertainment value, and I'm glad that a lot of people recognize that now. People realize now the value of them as educational."
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"You have cocktails for 250,000 people when millions upon millions are sick."
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"Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act."
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"I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren't getting it on the radio."
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"Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney."
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"I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy"'or 'What do you think of this?'"
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"And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire."
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"I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because people's lives don't have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying."
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"In spite of everything, I still believe that people are truly good at heart."
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"I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing."
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"But the Congress has made the determination that certain kinds of information can be protected even though the American people may want to have access to information."
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"Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you know who are impeccably groomed... but dull?"
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"People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves."
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"The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen."
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"The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live."
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"I'm just honored that people still like us and people are still nice to me."
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"We played a gig and we had a song that was offensive to people of the Jewish persuasion, and we led off with it, and they were offended by it, and that was that."
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"And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?"
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"When people use your brand name as a verb, that is remarkable."
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"What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?"
6
"Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?"
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"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."
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