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People Quotes


"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."


"I'd read things, like people criticizing me. But no one likes to read stuff about that, and probably the main thing that was getting to me was me mum's illness."


"The best part of my carreer is getting to meet so many different people, because I learn so much from everyone."


"I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with people. I don't think he's as trapped into the drug thing as a lot of the others are."


"Some people are willing to pay the price and it's the same with staying healthy or eating healthy. There's some discipline involved. There's some sacrifices."


"People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long."


"Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences."


"Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it."


"The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself."


"If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens."


"I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't."


"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat."


"The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing."


"The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell."


"Yeah, but in the end his followers take what they want from his philosophy. Maybe it doesn't matter what's going on in David Icke's mind. It's how other people take him."


"Nowhere is Universalism welcomed and encouraged by a people; everywhere governments have forced and are forcing Universalism upon unwilling and resistant subjects."


"Democrats don't relate to middle-class people."


"If people don't want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them."


"I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people."


"A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy."


"Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think."


"I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens."


"I've seen a lot of real out-of-line attitudes since I have been in the WWF and those people are still there or are getting a second or third chance or something like that."


"Orlando's a part of me. The next guy's a part of me. And the next guy's a part of me. That's all I'm trying to do, is tell cool stories that people can relate to."


"There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again."


"It's always felt natural, because I'm generally very comfortable with people."


"You, I, we all encounter behaviors that we might say, I wouldn't do that. But she has a huge amount of contact with how people live. She sees more hospices and sink estates than most people."


"They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days."


"The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill."


"I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines, nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation."


"The character of a people may be ruined by charity."


"I went to Washington to ask for a little residual payment for the people who had written films in the early, early days, people who never got any residuals on tapes or anything at all."


"I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's."
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