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People Quotes
"My only obligation is to keep myself and other people guessing."
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"You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible."
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"It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any disputes between the white people."
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"I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful."
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"People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me."
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"There's nothing like walking out and watching the people get turned on. Nothing in the world could replace it."
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"The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert."
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"I think it's pretty obvious to most people that Napster is not media specific, but I could see a system like Napster evolving into something that allows users to locate and retrieve different types of data other than just MP3s or audio files."
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"It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me."
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"I listen to some of the comments on WIP - they're playing parts of the press conference - and I can see where people would read into things. But if anyone was at the press conference, I think would sense how much I enjoyed Philly and how I loved working for those people."
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"I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the exact same stuff people said about Madonna. And it's like, she didn't care. Madonna just came out and was herself. I respect that a lot."
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"One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you."
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"Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks."
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"And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire."
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"People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph."
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"People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves."
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"I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people."
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"We played a gig and we had a song that was offensive to people of the Jewish persuasion, and we led off with it, and they were offended by it, and that was that."
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"People who know me well, call me Elizabeth. I dislike Liz."
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"I believe celebrity spoils people - some worse than others."
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"As I have been saying for more than a year now, turning this vital mission over to the Iraqi people as soon as possible should remain a topic of debate for Congress while relying on our military commanders to set up the timetable."
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"There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash."
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"Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people."
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"I try to be the fixer of situations and I gravitate to people who are institutional misfits."
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"I'm concerned about the cost, just like everybody else. There's no question that we have an obligation to help the people of Louisiana and Mississippi to rebuild."
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"They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people."
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"A lot of people give up just before they're about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one."
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"It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important."
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