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People Quotes


"I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth."


"It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people."


"I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people."


"Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth."


"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."


"I just have some restaurants to just go and eat there. Do mean places to watch people? I like to go shopping look for guitars and stuff with my friends. Look at Meyer, great old instruments, talk about pedals and stuff."


"People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago."


"Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent."


"It's pretty clear that over the last three months the economy has paused. And it's also pretty clear the American people are still demanding and asking the question, 'Where are the jobs?' And the reason we don't have new jobs is because of the job-killing agenda pursued by President Obama and his allies in the Congress."


"I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers."


"Constantly there's a credibility issue; you're judged on how you look. If you look good, people assume you aren't credible. It's a battle you'll always fight if you're on TV and a female."


"Well, Well, Well, its certainly a compelling provocative exciting delicious to think about idea, smart people say the universe is so big there must be something statistically it could be likely there could be something happening on some other world."


"Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist."


"Certainly, we continue to bring in new people. We'll hire, net new, over 4,000 people this year, and attract great people into the company. I'm very bullish about the employee base and what it can accomplish."


"I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery."


"People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe."


"I've worked with an awful lot of people. Katy Hepburn, Spencer Tracy."


"Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves."


"You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative."


"I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people."


"I know every actor says this, but the people behind the camera are great. They always have answers."



"MSNBC got some very good people. They've got a good-looking set. All They're first-class. Somewhere along the way, they kind of lost their identity as a news channel, and they started doing a lot of other sort of magazine-type programming."


"I mean, the people who run Guantanamo, the military, pretty much dismiss complaints by the detainees because they say that they're all created as part of a political process to sort of fake complaints and get public support."


"People who eat potatoes will never be able to perform their abilities in whatever job they choose to have."


"It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation."


"There's a kind of sick security some people get out of keeping away from people with disabilities. They are running away from any situation that's not totally pure and all-American and that requires them to do any thinking."


"If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em."



"I am, as a European, absolutely shocked by European people. I am also shocked by European nationalist people. They have allowed themselves to be so emasculated so silently."


"If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians."


"People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have."


"It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece."
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