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People Quotes


"I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive."


"The most frustrating thing for me as a singer is that people have pinpointed me as an actress who suddenly woke up one day and decided that I wanted to sing."


"I don't like parties. I prefer something more intimate, just for the closest people."


"People who annoy people are the luckiest people in the world."


"I like people who have a pulse and aren't afraid to show it."


"Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win."


"Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent."


"Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it."


"Yes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out well."


"I think some people are on a mission to die, and I never was."


"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."


"Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists."


"This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such."


"Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving."


"Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters."


"The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown."


"I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up."


"The democratic choice Russian people made in the early 90's is final."


"We know darned well that in Bosnia, certain governments and the secretary had said tens of thousands are needed in Srebrenica and those people were never provided."


"You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people."


"I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more to say."


"You can learn a lot from people who view the world differently than you do."


"People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done."


"Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught."


"Tax bills create wealth. They help people live better."


"Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication."


"People say it's a movie about boxing, but... I don't agree at all. I don't think it's a movie about boxing. Boxing is like a platform. It's just a stage where this is played out."


"If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results."


"We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody."


"I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods."


"To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship."


"Anyone who grows up with parents who are very influential, there are cases where people run away from that if they have parents who are really lame."


"I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are, that's where us gay people come from... you heterosexuals."


"I think anybody would be hard pressed not to relate to at least one of the characters, because there's so many different multifaceted people populating this crazy world."
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