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People Quotes


"It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people."


"Rocco paid me 35 bucks a week at Murray's Inn in South Jersey. People started asking Rocco to have me sing."



"If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up."



"I know that sounds selfish, but you have to look at what it's doing to you personally - are you frustrated because of the way people perceive you, or are you happy enough about the things you've realized about yourself that you can tolerate the way people perceive you?"


"Well, we have theatrical parties. It's not me singing. People like to get up and jam on the piano."


"Well, because we're so different as people. And it's that difference that probably also makes it easy to stay together, because we don't get in each others way."


"The people under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies."


"Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine."


"We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do."


"Because of the audience I get and the fact that these people aren't traditional comics buyers I don't think the comic industry looks at that and thinks that is a very respectable thing. I'm very used to it. I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines."


"As the universe accepted our show, more people began to accept me."



"I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. I have talked to a great many people who are very good at it, but so far nobody has ever been able to hypnotize me."


"Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play."



"There is not enough high intellect to be catered to and when most people think of Hiphop they think of low intellect."


"I'm a promoter of the people for the people and by the people and my magic lies in my people ties. I'm a promoter of America. I'm American people. You know what I mean? So therefore, uh, do not send for who the bell tolls 'cause the bell tolls for thee."


"We know that Medicare's going broke in seven years, but we need to start over.That's what the American people want us to do."



"No designer has really wowed me yet, I'm into other people's recommendations when it comes to fashion."


"My audience are the same people who bought my albums years ago. These people are now married, with their own homes, their own families. If I'm in concert, I get people now who bring their kids."


"You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character."


"These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me."


"Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party. We get lectured by people all day long about moral values by people who have their own moral shortcomings."



"Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reason, and not just to mingle with the right people."


"A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1. That all the American Indians are one kind of people; 2. That they are the same as the people in the northeast of Asia."


"I had written movie scores, television series, played with other people. Carl had done the same with Asia, with other bands, everything. We weren't about to entrust Greg automatically with a production credit."



"Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve."


"The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream."


"Educating young people about the harms of drugs is essential."


"One thing young people have to always keep in mind when deciding what they want to do with their lives is, is it fun? Is it something that I'm interested in? Is it something I enjoy?"


"We may be a small island, but we are not a small people."
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