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People Quotes


"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."


"I think that London is very much like that. I find there's humour in the air and people are interesting. And I think that it's a place which is constantly surprising. The worst thing about it? I think it can be smug and aggressive."


"I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people."


"You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own."


"I used to like to break into other people's houses and sit in their rooms. I found it very comforting to be in someone's empty house."


"They call it The New Avengers but it's really the old Avengers with new people except for me, looking rather fat and rather old."


"I think it's unconscionable for a Senator from Massachusetts to come down here and tell the people of Florida what's right for them. It's arrogant and irresponsible."



"Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people."


"And I'm hoping that fair-minded people will stand up and say that what's been done to me is wrong, and that-that people's personal lives have no impact on their ability to be a journalist, you know. Why should my past prevent me from having a future?"


"We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer."


"Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask."


"It's good to give seniors more choices and more options, let them choose a plan that's best for them and target assistance to the lowest income people."


"Our assistance in Somalia has been remarkably effective and successful, and we have helped with very small resources - a large group of people and we can now do even more."


"One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist."


"People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."


"And the fact that I see so many films really seems to amaze certain people."


"Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine."


"I believe in horoscopes. I was born under the sign of the Ram, which means I'm headstrong, don't like people telling me what to do."



"Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people."



"I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off."



"Having a persona people recognize, it's the thing that probably gets you paid the most - but it's also the thing that virtually every actor in the world doesn't want. 'Cause, like, no one would believe me if I wanted to play something ultra-realistic, like a gangster or something."


"And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture."


"The solution is to first create an integrated economic development and recreation plan that addresses the needs of the people who live and recreate in central Idaho."


"When I go in front of an audience, I'll admit I sometimes have a certain amount of fear in me, because maybe the people are not going to accept what I'm doing today. That's bad for any artist, especially if what you're doing is not in line with what's happening today."


"Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn't do anything-or that it doesn't do enough."


"In Cleveland there is legislation moving forward to ban people from wearing pants that fit too low. However, there is lots of opposition from the plumber' union."


"The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice."


"I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50's when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn't win the Tony Award."


"Four hundred million in India, and millions everywhere, have told you, precisely, that the colored people are not going to die for anybody: they are going to die for their independence."


"The best people to listen to are those who have already been successful accomplishing exactly what you are seeking to accomplish."


"I've always been interested in films where you can identify with the actors. Where you can be in their shoes and therefore be more involved if they're people that you recognize."


"When people tell you they saw your last picture - well, the way they say it sounds like they hope it was."
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