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People Quotes


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


"What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely."


"People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else."



"I don't think people realize the extent to which TV networks are hurt when they carry public broadcasting. I think the estimate is that they lose a half-million dollars for a half day's programming."



"People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most."


"A lot of us have jobs where we need to give people structure but that is different from controlling."


"We want to turn our inventory faster than our people."


"I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people."


"Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do."


"My way was not to be the petite, gorgeous, little cheerleader. My way of getting by was making people laugh."


"And, one thing I definitely enjoyed personally, from a selfish point of view, was exploration and going to places that I had never been to before and learning, you know, meeting the people and getting to know, new sights and sounds, etc."


"Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up."



"On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling axis, and this in turn rested on the two people in the room."


"For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige."



"You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible."


"Because I come from that old-school optics environment, I know stuff about depth of field and camera movement and things that are not necessarily a part of the curriculum for people who started on a box and have never done anything that wasn't on a box."


"In my own sphere I did everything that could possibly be expected of a man who believes in the greatness of his people and who is filled with fanaticism for the greatness of his country, in order to bring about the victory of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist movement."



"If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat."


"I think that being a conscious parent opens your eyes to the fact that any adult relationships that you have, whenever children are present on a daily basis, that they're modeling how they get along with people by what they see how you get along."


"Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired from their jobs on its behalf."


"That is why we are working with these various groups that have volunteers. We can get a lot of these things done. Nobody has dropped out, and a lot of people would like to join. We now know what each other does."


"What a different world this would be if people would listen to those who know more and not merely try to get something from those who have more."



"And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire."



"Different people bring out different aspects of ones personality."


"I was always told that I was too small, too skinny, too slow, not tough enough, and I never ever believed what people told me."


"What good fortune for governments that the people do not think."


"And as a result, I guess I'm just kind of a rubberneck. I'm kind of a - someone who likes to see things and likes to see these events and talk to the people who make them happen. But I don't think journalists are as important as the people they cover."



"Anthology shows as a whole scare people. The networks can't quite get their heads around it."



"I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk."


"Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners."


"People with goals succeed because they know where they're going."


"You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions."
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