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People Quotes


"It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much opposition everywhere, and many clergymen will attempt to prevent the people from reading what is here written."


"The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile."


"To me an audition is 30 crazed people in a room waiting to be axed."


"The Commonwealth has had consistently bad press. It was originally seen as a kind of hangover empire. People have long predicted its demise."


"I was never the girl who walked down the centre of the hallway snapping people out of her way."


"Then I became aware of the site as the traffic for it became higher. The most recent contact was this girl Lily. She wanted me to shoot her for the site and she actually showed up. There a lot of people who contact me to do a shoot for a website then you never hear from them."


"Lotsa people want to hurt me. That's the price you pay for being a big mouth."


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


"I'm more of like a recreational surfer, not a consist surfer. Some people get out every week or every day."


"Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do."


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


"The spirit in which the offer was made must of necessity contribute to improving and alleviating the situation of the Jewish people without our renouncing one iota of the great principles upon which our movement is based."


"What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself."


"You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own."


"Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do."


"I think we have a number of young people - like yourself - who want to make a difference. I'm not sure the numbers are as large because I think the burden of getting elected to public office at the national level has become astronomically expensive."


"You have to look also to the media, where you have a vast majority of the loudest and most influential political voices in America media from people who came from the entertainment world."


"Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included."


"I have about 100 pairs of pajamas. I like to see people dressed comfortably."


"And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area."


"Television is the triumph of machine over people."


"You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about."


"Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble."


"All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt."


"Have you ever Googled yourself? I did, most depressing thing ever. People have websites hoping I die at 38."


"As people grow up and they want more freedom, it's on an individual basis, children want to have more freedom, you've got to allow that, so how do you balance it. I would say let it evolve, move as quickly or slowly as people would like to move."


"The Russian people are suffering from economic fatigue and from disillusionment with the Allies! The world thinks the Russian Revolution is at an end. Do not be mistaken. The Russian Revolution is just beginning."


"Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in the early morning, and all the sprinklers have turned off, the scents that wash over me are just heavenly. Being House is like flying, too. You're free of the gravity of what people think."


"It's good to give seniors more choices and more options, let them choose a plan that's best for them and target assistance to the lowest income people."


"And then it got even worse, I mean, a few people fell by the wayside within hours. Nick Lowe was in it for about 5 hours I think, he was expelled for going to bed."


"People think I must have been turning cartwheels on the night I sealed the movie deal - which was only two days after sealing the book deal - but I was really quite terrified."
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