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People Quotes
"I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see."
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"A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write."
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"Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich."
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"There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness."
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"Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion."
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"In all cases our stance will be determined by what serves the interests of the Palestinian people."
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"So, the combination of looking at lots of different people and how they react to each other and how they relate to each other and waiting for that inspiration is the thing that allows me to keep writing."
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"I know the Haitian people because I am the Haitian people."
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"The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants."
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"That's healthy and good for us that there are people who are prepared to question what we are doing."
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"No amount of humanitarian assistance can protect people from being attacked."
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"In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner."
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"Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it."
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"This is the most terrible thing that can happen in a friendly country if Thai people have to escape from the backdoor of an embassy."
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"I've always swung the same way. The difference is when I swing and miss, people say, 'He's swinging for the fences.' But when I swing and make contact people say, 'That's a nice swing.' But there's no difference, it's the same swing."
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"It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people."
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"I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case."
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"The police belongs to the people and the people belong to the police."
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"I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people to call it just plain Linux and nothing more."
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"I don't have any formula for ousting a dictator or building democracy. All I can suggest is to forget about yourself and just think of your people. It's always the people who make things happen."
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"I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading."
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"The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world."
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"I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians."
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"I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention."
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"I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way."
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"It makes you realise that people are the same wherever you go."
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"People want security in this insecure world."
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"We don't have any bad memories of the people of the United States."
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"A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems."
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"I felt very strongly the whole social impact of that depression, you know, and I felt very strongly about the efforts that this Resettlement Administration was trying to accomplish; resettling people, helping them, and so on."
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"The tormenting dilemma of the Middle East is this: either we have one people too many, or one state too few."
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