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People Quotes
"When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional."
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"People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways."
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"I think it's better when you're natural, when you just do whatever you want, instead of doing classes where I see all these other people holding back because they've been trained with certain skills or techniques. I'm like, whatever."
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"Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could."
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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."
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"Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like."
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"Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future."
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"I hate it when people lose it, there's nothing left because they're not interesting, they're boring, I hate it, and especially smack, people on smack are the most boring in the world."
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"Be kind to people on the way up - you'll meet them again on your way down."
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"As one of the voices of rural New Yorkers in Congress, I am committed to supporting efforts such as these that will make a real impact in people's lives."
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"I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives."
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"The thing that you're faulted on today is not that you are too tough, or not that you aren't careful. It's that you might have been too soft. People want that red meat now because you have to keep up with the mood and the mood today is harsh. It really is."
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"Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front."
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"I was born in the USA, which many people still find hard to believe."
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"That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done."
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"I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth."
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"A lot of people didn't realize that I acted before I did anything else."
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"I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized."
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"People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune."
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"There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it."
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"Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people."
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"When I started off, I didn't only ride to fame on my looks though many people I know think otherwise."
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"It's been exciting to be able to go forward with stuff without 10,000 people saying, It should be like this."
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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."
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"I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy."
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"I think everybody has a bent, and the key is to follow that bent. So much human wastage comes from people who are doing things with their lives that they really aren't happy with."
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"I knew nothing about the people who ran the game in those days."
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"You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past."
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"I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting."
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"Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture."
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