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People Quotes


"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?"


"The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen."


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


"I'm just honored that people still like us and people are still nice to me."


"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?"


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


"Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?"


"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."


"I represent all the enlightened people in this country, and that's a fine thing to be able to do. It infuriates my opponents when I say this, but it is true."


"Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animals as cats and cows and raccoons. They're like the people who become successful and then don't want to be reminded of the old neighborhood."


"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."


"As I have been saying for more than a year now, turning this vital mission over to the Iraqi people as soon as possible should remain a topic of debate for Congress while relying on our military commanders to set up the timetable."


"We know well enough that if we repeal this law and give nothing for it, the people of this country will regard it as a total demonetization of silver, which it will be, so far as this Congress is concerned, without any question."


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


"Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent."


"I left Motown because of the regime of people who were there."



"I use the term bar-room to represent every means for the sale and traffic in liquor, and I earnestly appeal to the people to put an end to the traffic, no matter under what name or guise it may be carried on."


"It's nice to know that people appreciate and respect you."


"One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price."


"Well, Well, Well, its certainly a compelling provocative exciting delicious to think about idea, smart people say the universe is so big there must be something statistically it could be likely there could be something happening on some other world."


"How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing."


"The majority of surveys throughout this Nation show that the American people are advocating for a comprehensive and realistic approach to immigration reform."


"If people only knew as much about painting as I do, they would never buy my pictures."



"Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything."


"I've worked with an awful lot of people. Katy Hepburn, Spencer Tracy."


"When you do interviews, you have to talk about yourself - and I like to find out about other people. I am so familiar with everything that I do. I've said it over and over again. I think it is boring."


"People in Nevada know me from the street to the ring to the Senate chambers. I've never had to prove my manhood to anyone."



"You're talking to somebody who two years ago couldn't figure out how to use e-mail and who now has carpal tunnel. It has totally changed in that these films would not be getting out to people the way they're getting out without the Internet."
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