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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?"
William Bernbach
"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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"There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing."
Elliott Smith
"There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing."
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"The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen."
Tommy Smothers
"The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen."
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"I'd been a Bowie fan before punk and used to get no end of trouble. I was always getting knocked about and having to run up the street, getting chased by people. It was horrible."
Gary Numan
"I'd been a Bowie fan before punk and used to get no end of trouble. I was always getting knocked about and having to run up the street, getting chased by people. It was horrible."
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"The fact of the matter is that most actors are shy people."
Roger Moore
"The fact of the matter is that most actors are shy people."
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"The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live."
Lewis Mumford
"The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live."
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"No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will."
Euripides
"No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will."
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"People have said to me, You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument. But I've got 10 gold records."
Sonny Bono
"People have said to me, You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument. But I've got 10 gold records."
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"To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner."
Holly Near
"To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner."
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"I'm just honored that people still like us and people are still nice to me."
Johnny Ramone
"I'm just honored that people still like us and people are still nice to me."
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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?"
Milton Friedman
"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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"People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does."
Kary Mullis
"People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does."
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"When people use your brand name as a verb, that is remarkable."
Meg Whitman
"When people use your brand name as a verb, that is remarkable."
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"Good looking people turn me off. Myself included."
Patrick Swayze
"Good looking people turn me off. Myself included."
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"My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone, old, young, and in between."
Tom Chapin
"My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone, old, young, and in between."
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"However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - in other words, not a thing, but a think."
Penelope Fitzgerald
"However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - in other words, not a thing, but a think."
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"Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?"
John Keegan
"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."
Charles Schumer
"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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"Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom."
Stokely Carmichael
"Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom."
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"The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer."
James Cameron
"The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer."
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"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."
Helen Suzman
"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."
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"What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pictures but that in an indefinable way they will come away feeling better human beings. And that is exactly what Van Gogh hoped for."
John Russell
"What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pictures but that in an indefinable way they will come away feeling better human beings. And that is exactly what Van Gogh hoped for."
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"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."
Phil Donahue
"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."
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"Other people's perspective, just seeing the sexy image, might be that I take my sexuality very seriously. But I really don't. I like being sexy. It's fun, and I have had a nice little career off it."
Carmen Electra
"Other people's perspective, just seeing the sexy image, might be that I take my sexuality very seriously. But I really don't. I like being sexy. It's fun, and I have had a nice little career off it."
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"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."
Charles Schumer
"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."
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"Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company."
Jeremy Collier
"Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company."
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"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."
Howard Coble
"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."
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"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."
Richard Parks Bland
"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."
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"Recently, my personal advisors have been telling me to go to America. Actually, people have been walking up to me in the street and telling me to sod off, but that's the same thing, isn't it?"
Alexei Sayle
"Recently, my personal advisors have been telling me to go to America. Actually, people have been walking up to me in the street and telling me to sod off, but that's the same thing, isn't it?"
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"They didn't sell, people just weren't used to the idea of living in apartments."
Harry Seidler
"They didn't sell, people just weren't used to the idea of living in apartments."
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"When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect."
M. H. Abrams
"When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect."
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"I always pull over for people who need a push."
Esai Morales
"I always pull over for people who need a push."
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"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."
Pete Seeger
"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."
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"I left Motown because of the regime of people who were there."
Smokey Robinson
"I left Motown because of the regime of people who were there."
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"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."
Thomas Jordan Jarvis
"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."
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"Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures."
M. F. K. Fisher
"Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures."
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"It's nice to know that people appreciate and respect you."
Marcel Carne
"It's nice to know that people appreciate and respect you."
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"One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price."
Robert De Niro
"One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price."
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"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."
Jeff Goldblum
"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."
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"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."
Neville Chamberlain
"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."
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"The majority of surveys throughout this Nation show that the American people are advocating for a comprehensive and realistic approach to immigration reform."
Raul Grijalva
"The majority of surveys throughout this Nation show that the American people are advocating for a comprehensive and realistic approach to immigration reform."
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"If people only knew as much about painting as I do, they would never buy my pictures."
Edwin Landseer
"If people only knew as much about painting as I do, they would never buy my pictures."
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"Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars."
Oscar Robertson
"Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars."
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"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."
John Kenneth Galbraith
"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."
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"Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell."
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
"Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell."
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"Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight."
Johnny Cash
"Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight."
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"I've worked with an awful lot of people. Katy Hepburn, Spencer Tracy."
Vincente Minnelli
"I've worked with an awful lot of people. Katy Hepburn, Spencer Tracy."
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"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."
Johnny Mathis
"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."
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"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."
Harry Reid
"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."
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"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."
Robert Greenwald
"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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