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People Quotes



"Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form."


"I think the state has some serious problems. Just look at the layoffs going on across the state, not just in Chicago. It affects the middle class. It pushes people down."


"Pope John Paul II brought hope to all corners of the world, to people of all faiths and backgrounds, with his powerful belief in the human spirit."


"There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em."


"The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid."


"That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher's choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns."


"I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American."


"So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops."


"I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys, because we'll always be connected in people's minds."


"Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack."



"You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that."


"So many people always try to help me carry my luggage and help me do things I can do myself. If I can do it myself, I'm going to do it myself. I'm not going to let other people do it for me, and I think that's a big part of where I came from. I'm not a real prissy girl."


"People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten."



"In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'."


"What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate?"


"Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous."


"I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career."


"People forget we come from an embryo and we're part sperm and part ovary. We have both sides in us."



"I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment."


"Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue."


"The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people."


"Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo."



"Our company has to be a company that enables its people."


"People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile."


"Everybody doesn't have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to."


"So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate. They have, in all these matters, the same authority as the clergy."


"With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people."


"He's working a lot harder than I am. I tell these people that we really appreciate what they're doing for us."


"One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people."



"The spirit in which the offer was made must of necessity contribute to improving and alleviating the situation of the Jewish people without our renouncing one iota of the great principles upon which our movement is based."
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