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People Quotes
"The tormenting dilemma of the Middle East is this: either we have one people too many, or one state too few."
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"I think that they participated in something that was not very proper and was very pitiful, not only for the Algerian people, but also for the other people who counted on our support."
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"We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination."
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"The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants."
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"It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person."
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"Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show us what you can do."
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"I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading."
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"I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation."
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"It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here."
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"More and more people in my country recognise the dangers of having their governors appointed by Putin and having no influence in parliament because Parliament today is also following instructions from Kremlin and no longer represents its people."
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"The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it."
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"The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation."
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"I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention."
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"In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda."
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"This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true."
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"Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I've known for years are all in the industry together."
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"I know the Haitian people because I am the Haitian people."
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"Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment."
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"People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being."
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"A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write."
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"More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago."
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"Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame."
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"I felt very strongly the whole social impact of that depression, you know, and I felt very strongly about the efforts that this Resettlement Administration was trying to accomplish; resettling people, helping them, and so on."
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"I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians."
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"The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies."
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"Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it."
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"He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness."
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"You are a large country, you have many resources, and you have people who are highly capable."
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"We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter."
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"The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world."
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