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People Quotes


"The tormenting dilemma of the Middle East is this: either we have one people too many, or one state too few."


"There's always something about the Tonight Show that makes me a little bit anxious, nervous, excited. But it's good. It's good. It's been real good for me. It always has helped my career and Jay and all the people here have always been great."


"To the people here, we are outsiders. Foreigners."


"I think that by October the whole company has to migrate to OpenOffice, and then I think it's by June next year we all migrate to Linux - you don't want to migrate 6,000 people both operating system and office suite in a single jump."


"I'd rather go to a place and spend a couple of months, get to know it, get to know the people."


"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."


"Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories."


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


"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."


"Sometimes interviews are fun and good conversations, but stuff like photo shoots and appearances at places where you have to meet a lot of people - I was never really made for this kind of stuff."


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


"People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man."


"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."


"You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom."


"The mere fact of an American being present could help save the lives of innocent people. That's why I believe in the importance of bearing witness, to become a voice for the voiceless."


"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."


"I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves."


"I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety and a singer; old-fashioned entertainment - it won't die easily."


"We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer."


"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."


"The Commission has five commissioners from each side, plus three alternates, so all together sixteen members, people who are independent from the two governments, who have a lot of integrity, professional competence, and who have credibility in their respective countries."


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


"I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to a Southerner. They're two different worlds."


"People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born."


"I still think people do have racial hang-ups, but I think one of the reasons I can joke about it is people are shedding those racial hatreds."


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


"Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals."


"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."


"Invariably, also a Palestinian state should live side by side with Israel within recognized and secure borders and the security and prosperity of the Palestinian people must be guaranteed."
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