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People Quotes
"It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than by 60 million for something you're not."
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"Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them."
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"It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much opposition everywhere, and many clergymen will attempt to prevent the people from reading what is here written."
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"Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture."
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"I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing."
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"I have confidence in people's basic common sense."
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"Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world."
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"The voice of the people is the voice of humbug."
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"I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off."
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"Learn to ask for what you want. The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for which is precisely where you were before you asked."
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"Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy."
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"And then it got even worse, I mean, a few people fell by the wayside within hours. Nick Lowe was in it for about 5 hours I think, he was expelled for going to bed."
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"The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people."
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"A different world cannot be built by indifferent people."
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"You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go."
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"People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude."
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"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."
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"People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind."
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"We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think."
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"People will be fascinated. We will think of each other in a far more homogeneous way, because we will know that there is something that is different from us. And when we say 'us,' it will mean as a species."
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"Gentiles are people who eat mayonnaise for no reason."
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"The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people."
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"The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people's throat so they got no choice but to listen to it."
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"We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people."
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"Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough."
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"The best defense against these people is to educate parents and children of the dangers that come along with the Internet and by limiting access to certain sites during the school day."
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"I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss them if other people want to discuss them."
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"Our purpose is to be up here to resolve these issues. Our purpose is to be up here and represent the people."
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"I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours."
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"I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons."
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