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People Quotes


"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."


"Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like."


"Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively."


"I think of my songs as there to be something to move people emotionally."


"In subsequent years the groups you named had important roles in educating people about the real issues in Washington and Raleigh, and within the Democratic Party."


"A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him."


"I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives."


"My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people."


"There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it."



"What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about."


"When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally."


"I could do what a lot of people are doing and that's sign the best Nicaraguan fighters and then sell them to Don King, but there's no way I'll do that."


"These irresponsible acts, which cannot have any justification whatsoever, are to be fully condemned. In these appalling circumstances, I want to offer you the most sincere condolences, both in my name and in that of the French people."


"When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them."


"I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way."


"What's much harder is taking on people in your own community."


"I have lifelong friends. My oldest friend, Herbie, has been a friend since I was 9. I've had bonds for over 50 years with people."


"I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way."



"There are still people who believe in that and wake up every day believing it's possible, and invest their whole selves in that."


"Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United States."


"What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself."


"It's such a small industry here you inevitably end up working with the same people over and over again. There are only so many actors to go around, which is good for us."


"The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them."


"People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories."


"Television is the triumph of machine over people."


"Tourism is our second biggest industry in terms of the people it employs."


"You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about."


"I have numerous people who have expressed a willingness to be plaintiffs."


"If you're going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you're going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation that's based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, you're down to about 10 people or so."



"Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people."
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