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People Quotes


"People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence."


"I'll be honest. We copied everyone... the Beatles, the Bachelors. It was the only way people would even listen to you."


"If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming."


"Maybe It's not the biggest blockbuster film, but there will be some people that will see it, that will be debating it, that will be questioning their own sense of spirituality. If the film resonates, then I have succeeded in what I set out to do."


"It is evident that not all people that have the confidence of the prime minister are the same ones that have the confidence of the head of state."


"Unless you go out and say what you stand for, other people will do it for you."


"Besides, there were 50,000 fans or more there, and they wanted to see the best you've got. There was an obligation to the people, as well as to ourselves, to go all out."


"It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done."


"A magazine is simply a device to induce people to read advertising."


"You got to have people at the top who respond to and are selected by presidents."


"It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals."


"I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people."


"I get to meet a lot of people, and I really like people."


"The scientists at the end of the 19th century had people coming to them with this weird behaviour, and they didn't know what was going on but there seemed to be a similarity. They needed an answer, so they made up one."


"People make fast moves around me, I react. I can't help it."


"Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same as ours. We can't do anything about that. We can't control that."


"The United States has some people in Europe with whom we disagree on this matter and a large number of people in Europe, including governments in Europe, with whom we agree."


"A lot of people tend to chew up the scenery. I'm a firm believer in less is more, especially on the big screen."


"We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting."


"Why do we need to wait until somebody sells 10 million records to give people a show like that? What about us smaller, hungry folk? At least gimme a curtain!"


"Yeah, I've had the privilege to know a lot of really talented people."


"With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches."


"People are not in a good mood when any politician's face appears on television."


"There is no way you're going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000 people in New York on that day, and if they could have they would've killed 300,000."


"I could do what a lot of people are doing and that's sign the best Nicaraguan fighters and then sell them to Don King, but there's no way I'll do that."


"Businesses must invest in products and people in order to create new wealth."


"Certainly the emphasis I place in this chapter on coordination of behavior and cooperation to mutual benefit is something that ought to be very congenial to people in the libertarian tradition."


"In a way, the American side descended to Saddam's level, which happens often in these types of circumstances. That is why the people in Iraq do not accept the current state of affairs."


"Bernard and I intend doing a lot with our lives and that includes actively helping other people. But how can we tell you our plans when we haven't finished making them yet?"


"Everybody doesn't have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to."


"Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day."


"Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United States."
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