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People Quotes


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


"I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them."


"So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone."


"On a scale of the United States, the Hollywood influence on what comes out, that's not the majority views of across the country. What we read in Us Weekly or People magazine, or Entertainment Tonight, it's not what the majority of the country is thinking."



"Some people like to do everything always the same thing. That's another way: To do the same thing."


"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."


"People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt."


"The fact is that the economy is really posed for the kind of recovery that people can see and understand."


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



"Even six months later, they have not figured out how do we help the people from the area get housing."


"Now, I'm not here because I was that good. I'm here because of the people around me made me that good."


"I came up with American Splendor. Some people think it's American Squalor."


"I don't like to think that maybe I'm just getting old. I'm not too excited about watching a huge explosion. I'm more interested in people and characters."



"And I'm happy to say that I'm able to find people wherever I go that are not black, not white - they're just human beings. That's where I am, where I've been and where I intend to stay."


"Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves."



"Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us."


"Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn't matter what it's about, all that matters is how it makes you feel."



"We don't move on in the stunt unless it looks like a hit. So when I see it on TV, I'm generally satisfied that people are going to buy it."



"People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend."


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


"The tyrant always talks as if he's preserving the best interests of his people when he actually acts to undermine them."



"The only people who do plays in LA are people who can't get jobs in TV shows."


"I find it somewhat difficult to write with other people, although it has happened occasionally."


"You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth."


"It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling."


"People could see in me who I am now, an Olympic champ, the best in the world."


"The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people."


"As the inventor of the Immortality Device, I basically just tell people what I honestly think."



"We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture."



"I get to meet a lot of people, and I really like people."


"I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things."



"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."


"It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual."


"I think because I am as earnest as I am, people were accepting of my evolving into a certified, legitimate, and grown up and I did take three years off."


"The Bush Cabinet is quite interesting, there are no flashy people in there. No stars. They all seem quite focused and serious and knowledgeable about the areas to which they have been appointed."
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