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People Quotes



"I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know."


"They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgable in the fields of plumbing and electricity."


"If I were like a lot of other people, then it wouldn't be fun; but since I'm like me, it's okay."


"Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough as you and you should never speak out of an orchestra."


"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives."


"The artists who stand out to me have a passion for what they do. There are a lot of people who can sing. It's just like when you go to church and people are singing because it sounds good, not because it feels good. There's a difference."


"In so many of the other beats these days, there are these layers of public relations people that you have to go through to get to the newsmakers themselves."



"I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained."


"The problem is going to be finding the right words and implementing it in a way that is really dealing with people that are inciting and not preventing honest discussion of the underlying causes of this horrendous political situation the world is in now."


"Management is nothing more than motivating other people."


"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."



"Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them."



"I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human."



"People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps."


"I am still into the people I listened to growing up, so I completely remember what is like to be a fan, I haven't changed."


"There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way."


"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."


"What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists."


"For example, it's only about 20 years ago the people in that community would have got telephone lines, and it would be only about in the 1950s that electricity came to that part of the world. Television wouldn't have come till 1970."


"I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older."


"We're half the people; we should be half the Congress."


"Advertising says to people, 'Here's what we've got. Here's what it will do for you. Here's how to get it.'"


"They divided the city into three electoral wards, and in one ward there was 70 percent of the people, the Catholic population, and they elected eight representatives to the city council."


"I employ 20 people in Vienna. The other 130 coworkers are pilots and flight companions. The Overhead is limited with me. Reduces naturally the costs of my fliers."



"Well, I think as long as people are talking about stimulus, I think the Fed will be thinking about cutting rates because monetary policy is the better way to go because you can turn it on and turn it off."


"Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something."


"It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves."


"Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it."



"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."


"Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that."


"We in the industrialized world make a greater difference because our ecological footprint, our impact on the condition of the environment, is 40 to 50 times larger than that of people in the developing world."


"It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment."


"It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge."


"To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say."


"A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls."


"Many times, people attack the well-to-do people. They see an opportunity."
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