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People Quotes


"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."


"You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative."


"As soon as people see my face on a movie screen, they knew two things: first, I'm not going to get the girl, and second, I'll get a cheap funeral before the picture is over."


"Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you."


"An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters."


"I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits."


"People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star."


"The American people fear there is some gouging going on."


"It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important."


"When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity."


"There's a kind of sick security some people get out of keeping away from people with disabilities. They are running away from any situation that's not totally pure and all-American and that requires them to do any thinking."


"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."


"But I think what happened was that Clinton knew how to fight back. And the way he fought back was on the issues - being tough in staying on the things that mattered to people in their lives."


"Honestly, being a doctor could make you more close minded than regular people."



"I am, as a European, absolutely shocked by European people. I am also shocked by European nationalist people. They have allowed themselves to be so emasculated so silently."



"You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it."


"It's important for people to realize I don't want to be the It guy. I want to crawl before I walk. I want to learn about things before I jump into them."


"We also need people like social workers, volunteers, the Christian Industrial League, drug treatment programs to make sure you are getting them a job. That's what you have to do. Otherwise, we just keep stepping around these things."


"If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians."


"To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places."


"People underestimate me, but I've always been a stretch runner."


"I don't keep a press agent because I think people need to have a break from you."


"Our world and our state have been transformed, but, in contrast, we as people have not been."


"It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy."


"It always weirds me out and makes me unhappy that some people think I'm Justin. I'm not. People can be talking to me and I know they think they are talking to Justin. It's hard to explain."


"People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning."


"It's nice to see that people in Middle America are really affected."


"In the beginning, people think vulnerability will make you weak, but it does the opposite. It shows you're strong enough to care."


"We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer."
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