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"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."
Eric Bogosian
"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."
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"She is also brought to a point of zero in the beginning of the story, and I think you can say that about a lot of my films in that they are often about people who are brought to the point of zero in the beginning of the film."
Bille August
"She is also brought to a point of zero in the beginning of the story, and I think you can say that about a lot of my films in that they are often about people who are brought to the point of zero in the beginning of the film."
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"Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good."
Marquis De Vauvenargues
"Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good."
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"Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States."
Oliver North
"Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States."
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"People don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to The Tonight Show."
Tea Leoni
"People don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to The Tonight Show."
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"Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope."
Jet Li
"Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope."
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"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."
Lakhdar Brahimi
"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."
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"It's just people should realize that the celebrity aspect of being an actor is very rarely enjoyable for people like me who would always rather go unnoticed and disappear into the crowd."
Winona Ryder
"It's just people should realize that the celebrity aspect of being an actor is very rarely enjoyable for people like me who would always rather go unnoticed and disappear into the crowd."
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"If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don't regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed."
Tennessee Williams
"If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don't regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed."
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"That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere."
Sting
"That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere."
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"Every day I run into people who don't know what I do. And even after I explain it they still don't know what I do. So now I can just say, 'Pick up the Locas book!' And that tells them all."
Jaime Hernandez
"Every day I run into people who don't know what I do. And even after I explain it they still don't know what I do. So now I can just say, 'Pick up the Locas book!' And that tells them all."
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"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."
Norman Lear
"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."
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"I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people."
Peter Jennings
"I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people."
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"Bulls do not win bull fights. People do."
Norman Ralph Augustine
"Bulls do not win bull fights. People do."
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"The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends."
Shirley Knight
"The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends."
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"I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?"
Roy Lichtenstein
"I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?"
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"Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros."
Bobby Orr
"Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros."
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"People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget."
Ted Stevens
"People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget."
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"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."
Harry Reid
"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."
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"I'd like to get four people who do cart wheels very good, and make a cart."
Mitch Hedberg
"I'd like to get four people who do cart wheels very good, and make a cart."
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"Martina's gone with people who don't want to be out, and it drives her crazy because she'd rather be open."
Billie Jean King
"Martina's gone with people who don't want to be out, and it drives her crazy because she'd rather be open."
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"I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily."
Gary Coleman
"I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily."
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"In some ways that fight gave me more respect around the world and helped me be even more popular because so many people felt my pain and saw that I was robbed."
Marvin Hagler
"In some ways that fight gave me more respect around the world and helped me be even more popular because so many people felt my pain and saw that I was robbed."
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"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."
Delta Burke
"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."
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"Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist."
Sean Lennon
"Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist."
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"People who have never had an addiction don't understand how hard it can be."
Payne Stewart
"People who have never had an addiction don't understand how hard it can be."
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"We had a showing of Battlestar in LA last week. I walked out the door and there were 50 people. I signed a ton of autographs. Other actors walked away without signing. These are the fans. I guess it depends. on who you are."
Noah Hathaway
"We had a showing of Battlestar in LA last week. I walked out the door and there were 50 people. I signed a ton of autographs. Other actors walked away without signing. These are the fans. I guess it depends. on who you are."
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"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."
Timothy Geithner
"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."
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"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."
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
"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."
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"I knew there were, in myself, the souls of millions of people who lived centuries ago; not just people but animals, plants, the elements, things, even, matter. All of these exist in me."
Klaus Kinski
"I knew there were, in myself, the souls of millions of people who lived centuries ago; not just people but animals, plants, the elements, things, even, matter. All of these exist in me."
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"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?""
Lisa Marie Presley
"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?""
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"Radio allowed people to act with their hearts and minds."
Dick York
"Radio allowed people to act with their hearts and minds."
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"I raise this objection to debate the process, and protect the integrity of the true will of the people."
Stephanie Tubbs Jones
"I raise this objection to debate the process, and protect the integrity of the true will of the people."
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"It was amazing that a play that seems dated in this world... A man whose best friend is a six-foot white rabbit... But it caught on, especially with young people - they surprised me most of all."
James Stewart
"It was amazing that a play that seems dated in this world... A man whose best friend is a six-foot white rabbit... But it caught on, especially with young people - they surprised me most of all."
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"I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism."
Barbara Kruger
"I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism."
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"I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people."
Pat Robertson
"I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people."
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"Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics."
William J. Brennan
"Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics."
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"I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us."
Robert Smith
"I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us."
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"I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them."
Lucian Freud
"I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them."
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"I had been told by so many people that I was going to be nominated, that I should be nominated, that there wasn't any question about my being nominated. I don't think it was a surprise."
Gloria Stuart
"I had been told by so many people that I was going to be nominated, that I should be nominated, that there wasn't any question about my being nominated. I don't think it was a surprise."
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"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."
William Devane
"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."
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"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."
Merton Miller
"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."
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"People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong."
Bill Vaughan
"People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong."
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"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."
Paul McCartney
"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."
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"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."
David Milne
"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."
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"Those who are critical of Alliance are the same people who have done nothing for 30 years."
Eliot Spitzer
"Those who are critical of Alliance are the same people who have done nothing for 30 years."
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"Today more people believe in UFOs than believe that Social Security will take care of their retirement."
Scott Cook
"Today more people believe in UFOs than believe that Social Security will take care of their retirement."
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"I've liked lots of people 'til I went on a picnic jaunt with them."
Bess Truman
"I've liked lots of people 'til I went on a picnic jaunt with them."
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"I know little stories that happen to people around me, and I can repeat that in a way that has some color."
Harry Dean Stanton
"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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"People take chances every now and then, and you don't want to disappoint them."
Jason Statham
"People take chances every now and then, and you don't want to disappoint them."
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