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People Quotes
"I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines, nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation."
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"The character of a people may be ruined by charity."
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"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."
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"I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's."
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"Many people are target people. Once when Louis B. Mayer insulted me I poured a glass of water over his head."
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"People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish."
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"I'd rather have ten people who are mad for it than ten thousand who aren't."
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"Jail is much easier on people who have nothing."
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"I do send out information about my books. Very few people buy the books that way, but I always feel that if they want to know more about the process, they can get the information from my books."
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"Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not yet exist."
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"I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy."
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"The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them."
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"For anybody to say well this is not Hip Hop and that's not Hip Hop, that is not the way the formula was laid down. It was for the people who were going to continue take anything musically and string it along."
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"Actually, I find it embarrassing being a pop star. I prefer it when people just treat me like anybody else, although occasionally there is a side of me, which is indulgent and I expect certain things because of my position. It's one of the perks."
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"The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have a picture in your head and to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need."
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"I don't think about what other people want from me."
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"You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that... we're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good."
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"In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content."
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"When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else."
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"If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people."
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"It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit."
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"The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control."
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"It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that people will actually believe, but it's not so much a symbol of the thing, but you're trying to do the thing itself."
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"I can tell you that I'd rather be kissed by my dogs than by some people I've known."
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"I don't know how people live without coffee, I really don't."
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"American people are not evil. Given information, they will do the right thing. But they're not given the information."
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"People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it."
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"I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else."
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"A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1. That all the American Indians are one kind of people; 2. That they are the same as the people in the northeast of Asia."
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"From its earliest days, stem cell research has been important to the people of Wisconsin."
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"There's nothing so rewarding as to make people realize they are worthwhile in this world."
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