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People Quotes


"A lot of people you think you know you don't know until you find out you don't know then it may be too late to know."


"I have tremendous admiration for everyone who enters the political arena so long as their goal is to do what they believe is right for the people of New York."



"When people tell me I've kept them up all night, I feel like I've succeeded."



"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."


"People do not win people fights. Lawyers do."


"No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own."


"We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best."


"Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes."



"The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture."


"I have not heard people in the Republican Party yet admit that they have a problem. And when they do say that they have a problem I don't know that I believe 'em."



"Saddam Hussein has openly admitted to the rest of the world that he had weapons of mass destruction. He used those weapons to kill his own people."


"Everywhere I go, somebody is staring at me, I don't know if people are staring because they recognize me or because they think I'm a weirdo."



"It's very easy to confuse Sean Connery with James Bond. Sometimes in the entertainment industry, people believe the cake is more real than the baker."


"And meanwhile, the storytellers like me and Anderson, Silverberg... we tell stories. People like them. They want to know how it comes out, they want to know what the ending is."



"LA can be a very open and accepting creative environment. But it is important, because there is this odd separation here, it is important to make your kids mindful of other people and other people's plight."


"The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you."


"We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need."


"There has been loss of steel manufacturing. Those people need jobs. Where you have to build the third airport is where people are. So you're right; if his site isn't playable, then our site is right next to it."


"When some people get parts, they feel they can now relax, but for me it was always the opposite. Sometimes before I do a movie or before I act out a scene, I may not sleep well the night before. If I don't know what the scene is about, I might get all worked up."


"It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that."


"There's tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it."


"I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible."


"I'm more of a homebody. I'm constantly asked: 'Why don't we see you out?' But that's not what drives me. I prefer to have people over - which I do a lot, because I bought a house that's way too big for me, and four of my friends live there."



"You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people."


"But with 9/11, we found that people tended to come back to the networks and the people who had been our core viewers in the past came back and they have stayed with us."


"The people of the Southern States now own near five millions of these negroes, and they are worth to them near three millions of dollars."


"Tax bills create wealth. They help people live better."



"But the idea that some day people would want to be able to interact and get stock quotes and talk with other people or all these different things, I just believed that was going to happen."


"If it were the Clinton people, they'd be sitting around figuring out how to pull themselves out. Instead the president is continuing to go around the country and peddling Social Security, which the needle is not moving on."


"There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave."


"We had such a wonderful set of circumstances in Wilmington. Yes, the four of us became famous literally overnight, but we were in a small town and we always knew when people were coming down. We always knew when to behave."


"To confront those fears, in a controlled environment, where there's 300 people around you going through the same thing, it's this weird sort of yin and yang."


"Something's going to happen that's going to make us all pay attention at the type of sentences some people are serving and the conditions in which they are served."


"Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires."


"The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way."
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