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People Quotes


"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."


"People who know me know I'm strong, but I'm vulnerable."


"I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had."


"I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent."


"I think that if you idealise someone for so long, they can only disappoint and I wouldn't want to be disappointed by those people."


"Last year, when we were in Mobile, Al., covering Hurricane Ivan, we heard the stories of poor people, many of them black stranded downtown because they had no way out."


"I think that sometimes you do something that makes a small group of people laugh, which is all we were trying to do; we were just trying to make each other laugh."


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


"Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't."


"I like to go to parties where I know everyone. How are you going to have fun with people you don't know?"


"Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys."


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


"Consumers are statistics. Customers are people."


"You're never guaranteed about next year. People ask what you think of next season, you have to seize the opportunities when they're in front of you."


"For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression."


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


"People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there."


"Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71."


"In addition to joblessness, of course, by the working of supply and demand, when you have a larger number of people unemployed, wages do not rise at the normal level, so that we had last year a drop in real wages."


"We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population."


"I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster."


"People want other people to know that they share our sensibility even if they're not exactly sure what that sensibility is."


"All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats."


"People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in."


"I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness."


"There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win."


"I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job."


"If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?"


"Once a person has killed other people on behalf of an ideology, he becomes rather devoted to it."
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