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People Quotes
"The attacks inside Israel are operations we carry out in response to Israeli crimes against our people."
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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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"I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them."
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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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"From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality."
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"I'm not saying I'm something special. I might play a little better tennis than other people, but it is because I was given the chance, and not many people are."
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"I am affected by what is around. I don't think many people would admit that."
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"For me, there are no my people and strangers, no bad people and good people. All people are equal for me."
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"The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it."
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"People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things."
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"We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely."
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"National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other 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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"I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept on reinventing herself."
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"Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying."
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"So many people release albums before Christmas and they get lost in the Christmas rush."
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"I am elected by the people of Bucharest, not the dogs."
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"Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition."
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"We want all the Palestinians back in their homeland, and then there can be a fair referendum for people to choose the form of state they want. Whoever gets the majority can rule."
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"On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What happened recently in Spain affects us here and brings questions up. It is too bad that people have to be shaken up in that way."
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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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"I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in."
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"In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of."
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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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"Where are the Muslim people's sponsors? Where are its kings? Where are its leaders? The Muslim people is calling upon you, Jerusalem is appealing to you, will anyone answer?"
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"I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see."
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"When we began filming, these people had legs, but as we were filming, they had been injured and they were brought to the hospital to have their legs amputated, and that's where we found them and asked them to come and be part of the film."
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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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"Well, as you've said, we cannot expect the people of China not to want to progress, so if you have an opportunity to progress, to develop your economy to a world class economy, it's an aspiration that is natural and that, I welcome."
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"Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich."
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"Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion."
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