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People Quotes


"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."


"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."


"It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important."


"I like to connect to people in the virtual world, exchanging thoughts and ideas, when in the physical world we might never have the opportunity to cross paths."


"I don't know, one out of every two marriages ends up in divorce so there's a lot of great people out there who people aren't happy with."


"The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep."


"Every now and then you get a nice Jewish kid who likes black people and they would come in, and it would be a stream of them, and have black friends and really feel the black struggle on the acting tip and it's a reason why all of us are not dying in the movie."


"Delhi came as a shock. There were so many people, and oh, the traffic."


"There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people."


"It always weirds me out and makes me unhappy that some people think I'm Justin. I'm not. People can be talking to me and I know they think they are talking to Justin. It's hard to explain."


"Reality TV finds talented people. There are no scripts. The editing is what it's all about. Great editing makes those shows."


"I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?"


"I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood."


"The best subjects are always people, who never fail to amaze me by their unpredictability."


"As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened."


"I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad."


"I didn't know that people compared Bill Hicks and I but certainly I'm flattered if they do. I knew Bill a bit. We had dinner a couple of times and played guitar together once. I really tried to keep my distance from him professionally."


"I hope that people like us next year like they liked us last year."


"Although AmeriCorps is making a difference among its participants and the people they serve, we must address homelessness and the need for job training among our veterans."


"Encouraging people to believe in it was the most important thing of all. It's one of the reasons I was always uncomfortable whenever film crews came on the set to shoot things. I didn't want our make-believe to be exposed."


"Some people use just one condom, right? But we use tons."


"Second point is no one here could predict or know that Israel was involved or started producing the hydrogen bomb - the most advanced and powerful atomic bomb that can kill millions of people."


"Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary."


"I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with."


"What the nation's built on is discussion, contradiction and growth, and at the moment you can't discuss anything. If you do start to discuss it, you get criticized. If people hate us, you have to find out why and try to solve that problem."


"The American people must not buy into the Democrat rhetoric."


"I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people."


"You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don't enforce them, people are going to find a way to protect themselves. We need to recognize that bad people are doing bad things with these weapons. It's not the law-abiding citizens, it's not the person who uses it as a hobby."


"See, there were certain rules I'd always used, and people like Trane, they would break those rules."


"When I'm watching somebody act, it's a behavior editorial function - I look at someone act, and I might say, 'I don't believe him when he says that.' I don't know why I don't believe him, probably because the people that I've met, they don't act like that when they say stuff like that and mean it."


"The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda."


"Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being."
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