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People Quotes


"I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading."


"The only differences one can and should allow in socialism are between hard working people and idlers and between honest people and dishonest people."


"You're trying too hard to find a correlation here. You don't know these people, you don't know what they intended. You try to compile statistics and correlate them to a result that amounts to nothing more than speculation."


"There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them."


"A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it."


"It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people."


"I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case."


"So, the combination of looking at lots of different people and how they react to each other and how they relate to each other and waiting for that inspiration is the thing that allows me to keep writing."


"I had a vision how it should sound and I put all my knowledge into this product and it is a fantastic product. People still tell me that I have the best musical thing there."


"I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me."


"I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people."


"People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it."


"It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair."


"People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places."


"I have been free for more than a month. Some people may think that that is long enough. Others may think that that is not quite long enough."


"If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer."


"I don't think Capote loved Smith. But he did make a deep connection. It upset some people, because that had never been the approach to journalistic crime writing, to look into the mind of the killer."


"If it is in the interest of the Palestinian people to have a hudna, we'll have a hudna. If it isn't, we won't."


"The killing of innocent people is always wrong."


"Each cast member brings their own vibe and antics to the set. You're constantly surrounded by fun loving people who can make you laugh in their own way."


"I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person."


"The police belongs to the people and the people belong to the police."


"That's healthy and good for us that there are people who are prepared to question what we are doing."


"People stopped hanging out with me at the point when I stopped doing drugs. All of a sudden they didn't wanna hang out with me anymore. And I would have hung out with them. I mean they were killing themselves, but I still would have hung out with them."


"Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other."


"Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge."


"As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure."


"Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich."


"Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true."


"I mean, you have to be able - you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to try to inspire other people to do it, because obviously the first rule is you can't do it by yourself."


"Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke."


"People want security in this insecure world."


"Where are the Muslim people's sponsors? Where are its kings? Where are its leaders? The Muslim people is calling upon you, Jerusalem is appealing to you, will anyone answer?"


"But some people act like they think I live in the jungle someplace."


"People go 'You look a lot like Minnie Driver.' Once I said, 'Thanks, Minnie is a great actress.' But, it blew up in my face. This person said, 'Nah, didn't like the last movie she did.'"
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