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People Quotes


"All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about."


"The target market is for people who have not been entrenched in Web culture."


"As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them."


"Besides, there were 50,000 fans or more there, and they wanted to see the best you've got. There was an obligation to the people, as well as to ourselves, to go all out."


"Some of the most miserable people I know are some of the richest people in America, they are the most miserable individuals I've ever seen."


"We're running out of rich people in this country."


"It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don't like me and I don't think they would be interested in reading about me, even in the fictional context."


"A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people."


"I know little stories that happen to people around me, and I can repeat that in a way that has some color."


"You got to have people at the top who respond to and are selected by presidents."


"The communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization, and where this exists, there the parasitic Jewish nation - which speculates upon the labor of people - will always find the means for its existence."


"Ohioans are practical. We're a can-do people. Give us a problem, we'll give you a solution."


"I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States."


"But I've worked where they've had animals before, and animal wranglers, the people who raise animals and train animals for films and television, they're all very, very professional."


"If the rules of creativity are the norm for a company, creative people will be the norm."


"The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, these are just some of the people who threatened to sue if we used their songs."


"Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock."


"Anyone who thinks that people can be fooled or pushed around has an inaccurate and pretty low estimate of people - and he won't do very well in advertising."



"The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead."


"I tried to do the commercial thing. But I don't want to keep shoving Twinkies down everyone's throat. People are hungry for something of more substance."


"I know if I don't tour people will forget the record and you run a high risk of the record failing."


"No matter what people say, your fans are the ones that come to watch the movie or come to your shows and that's the most important thing."



"I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back."


"Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face."


"The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach."


"How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think."


"Rich people who own mansions on the beach shouldn't get federal subsidies. If you want to stay there, take the risk."


"Well, you know, in any political campaign, you're gonna have people on one side that are gonna slip a reporter something because they think it'll hurt the guy on the other side."


"Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people."


"I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical standpoint, with floppy disks and the ability to put all of the film onto a disk, more people have access to the movie."


"The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich."
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