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People Quotes


"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."



"I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or to find sites that are friendly."


"Some people can sometimes really invade your space and kind of never leave you alone."


"Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality."


"The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude."


"People used to say everyone knows someone who's had breast cancer. In the past few weeks, I've learned something else: Everyone has someone close to them who has had breast cancer."


"We are prophetic interrogators. Why are so many people hungry? Why are so many people and families in our shelters? Why do we have one of six of our children poor, and one of three of these are children of color? 'Why?' is the prophetic question."


"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."


"The American people fear there is some gouging going on."


"When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity."


"Technically you need the extra dimensions. At first people didn't like them too much, but they've got a big benefit, which is that the ability of string theory to describe all the elementary particles and their forces along with gravity depends on using the extra dimensions."



"People underestimate me, but I've always been a stretch runner."


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



"You can say the right thing about a product and nobody will listen. You've got to say it in such a way that people will feel it in their gut. Because if they don't feel it, nothing will happen."


"I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble."


"I think it's pretty normal that there are a lot of people out there who don't like us."


"Have you ever seen people so ugly that you have to get someone else to verify it?"


"Consumers are statistics. Customers are people."


"TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary."


"When I teach people, I marry them."


"People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and characteristics."



"You have to give access to people with disabilities but there is no requirement to hire them. What I mean by affirmative obligation is that producers must take the necessary steps to include opportunities for people with disabilities and a vast majority of them do."


"Most of the younger people I knew didn't seem to have a handle on things; they hadn't found their place, they didn't understand how the world works, they didn't understand how to treat other people, and they didn't know how to stop thinking about themselves."


"People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long."


"The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you."



"Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand."


"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat."


"Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick."
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