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People Quotes


"I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me."


"Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good."


"There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people."


"That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people."


"I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people."


"The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends."


"I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?"


"People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget."


"This 21st century economy holds great promise for our people. But unless we give all Americans the skills they need to succeed, countries like India and China will take good-paying jobs that should be ours."


"I'd like to get four people who do cart wheels very good, and make a cart."


"I put the weight on after we were together. I put on about 20 pounds when we got married, and people were flipping their lids. And then I put on more after that, and I've gone up and down since then."


"People who have never had an addiction don't understand how hard it can be."


"But what we're determined to do, and what the reforms will do is to make sure this system goes back to its core purpose of taking the savings of Americans and from investors around the world and allocating those to people with an idea, not just the largest companies in the country, but to small businesses with an idea and a plan for growing."


"We are in control, they are in a state of hysteria. Losers, they think that by killing civilians and trying to distort the feelings of the people they will win. I think they will not win, those bastards."


"I'm more of a tomboy than anything and then you see your name on these Top 50 Most Beautiful People lists and you're like, "What?""


"I raise this objection to debate the process, and protect the integrity of the true will of the people."


"I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people."


"I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that."


"Most people might just as well buy a share of the whole market, which pools all the information, than delude themselves into thinking they know something the market doesn't."


"People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong."


"I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird."


"One of the attractive things about being in Scotland is that we have a very good pipeline of new people coming into the company from the excellent universities around us."


"Today more people believe in UFOs than believe that Social Security will take care of their retirement."


"I've liked lots of people 'til I went on a picnic jaunt with them."


"I know little stories that happen to people around me, and I can repeat that in a way that has some color."
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