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"I sit in places like Costa Coffee in Banstead and write rubbish. I need a deadline. I think about the 44 tour dates and keep imagining standing in front of all these people. Then every day I write 15 jokes minimum."
Tim Vine
"I sit in places like Costa Coffee in Banstead and write rubbish. I need a deadline. I think about the 44 tour dates and keep imagining standing in front of all these people. Then every day I write 15 jokes minimum."
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"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."
Stephen Fry
"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."
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"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."
Richard M. Daley
"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."
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"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."
Jerry Costello
"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."
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"I'm not sure I'm quite ready to have someone be a prospector of jobs for me, because I believe there's some kind of destiny involved with meeting people... some things are just meant to happen."
Audrey Tautou
"I'm not sure I'm quite ready to have someone be a prospector of jobs for me, because I believe there's some kind of destiny involved with meeting people... some things are just meant to happen."
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"There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em."
Yogi Berra
"There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em."
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"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."
Branford Marsalis
"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."
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"The trouble with those people is that they think all the best things are made in the cities. It is not so."
Ernest Poole
"The trouble with those people is that they think all the best things are made in the cities. It is not so."
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"To denigrate the union movement in this way is to denigrate the right and the ability of people who are not rich to organize and to accomplish things together."
Warren Beatty
"To denigrate the union movement in this way is to denigrate the right and the ability of people who are not rich to organize and to accomplish things together."
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"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."
Daniel Okrent
"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."
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"I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American."
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American."
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"We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America."
Barbara Jordan
"We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America."
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"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot."
Ani DiFranco
"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot."
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"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."
Ed Smith
"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."
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"I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys, because we'll always be connected in people's minds."
Barry Zito
"I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys, because we'll always be connected in people's minds."
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"I can't control how people are going to react. I try not to worry about what I can't control."
Aidan Quinn
"I can't control how people are going to react. I try not to worry about what I can't control."
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"Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack."
George S. Patton
"Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack."
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"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."
Wayne Rogers
"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."
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"The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues."
Elizabeth Taylor
"The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues."
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"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."
Carrie Underwood
"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."
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"They may well say not only is this not true, but I will put in an injunction to prevent publication. No, stories don't go in unless I'm convinced by the people who write them that they're true. And if I'm wrong, then so be it."
Ian Hislop
"They may well say not only is this not true, but I will put in an injunction to prevent publication. No, stories don't go in unless I'm convinced by the people who write them that they're true. And if I'm wrong, then so be it."
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"When my writing really started to take off was when I made a decision that I would write only what I wanted to write, and if 10 people wanted to hear it, that's fine."
David Friedman
"When my writing really started to take off was when I made a decision that I would write only what I wanted to write, and if 10 people wanted to hear it, that's fine."
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"People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten."
Mick Jagger
"People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten."
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"In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'."
Theodor Adorno
"In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'."
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"What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate?"
Morley Safer
"What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate?"
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"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."
Janis Joplin
"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."
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"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."
Oprah Winfrey
"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."
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"I wouldn't even get elected. I'd probably deck a couple of people, too which would not play very well with the national media."
Tim Robbins
"I wouldn't even get elected. I'd probably deck a couple of people, too which would not play very well with the national media."
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"People forget we come from an embryo and we're part sperm and part ovary. We have both sides in us."
Michelle Rodriguez
"People forget we come from an embryo and we're part sperm and part ovary. We have both sides in us."
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"I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment."
Utada Hikaru
"I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment."
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"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."
Karl Liebknecht
"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."
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"Personally, people know themselves very poorly."
Ernst Mach
"Personally, people know themselves very poorly."
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"Some of the songs I do once in a while that I kinda... my set list is basically like my hits, there is a good reason why they are there; people really like them."
Joe Cocker
"Some of the songs I do once in a while that I kinda... my set list is basically like my hits, there is a good reason why they are there; people really like them."
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"So that they can actually make it known to the American people before they vote what they're voting for."
Betty Hill
"So that they can actually make it known to the American people before they vote what they're voting for."
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"I don't write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have found my books enjoyable and want to continue to read them."
Jean M. Auel
"I don't write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have found my books enjoyable and want to continue to read them."
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"The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people."
Huey Newton
"The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people."
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"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."
Derek Bailey
"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."
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"Our company has to be a company that enables its people."
Steve Ballmer
"Our company has to be a company that enables its people."
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"People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile."
David Attenborough
"People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile."
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"Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected."
Josh Billings
"Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected."
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"Everybody doesn't have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to."
Matt Groening
"Everybody doesn't have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to."
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"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."
Charles Hodge
"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."
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"People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite."
Brent Spiner
"People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite."
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"The exciting new thing, call it Internet.2, would be where links were updated and moved depending on where people click. That would give you the kind of content screening that you don't get at the moment."
Dave Rowntree
"The exciting new thing, call it Internet.2, would be where links were updated and moved depending on where people click. That would give you the kind of content screening that you don't get at the moment."
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"With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people."
John Lothrop Motley
"With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people."
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"He's working a lot harder than I am. I tell these people that we really appreciate what they're doing for us."
Mark Kelly
"He's working a lot harder than I am. I tell these people that we really appreciate what they're doing for us."
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"There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm to happy being myself."
James D'arcy
"There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm to happy being myself."
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"I think people really want to be happy."
John Astin
"I think people really want to be happy."
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"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."
Camryn Manheim
"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."
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"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."
Theodor Herzl
"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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