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People Quotes


"No amount of humanitarian assistance can protect people from being attacked."


"I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in."


"So many people release albums before Christmas and they get lost in the Christmas rush."


"We don't have any bad memories of the people of the United States."



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


"On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What happened recently in Spain affects us here and brings questions up. It is too bad that people have to be shaken up in that way."



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


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


"The people have already determined Chechnya's status at the referendum - it is a unit of the Russian Federation. Its political status is not to be discussed any more."


"It makes you realise that people are the same wherever you go."


"People in so many countries look up to the United States as a model of democracy, but I doubt if that can continue. It leaves me with a great sense of loss."



"Well, you have a defence attache here, that's a step forward. Your Defence Minister has been here, our defence people have exchanges with you. So friendly relations at the military level are already in existence."



"I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it."


"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."


"I did a voice for Odo, but people don't recognize you by your voice."


"I'm proud, I've been working with this kind of self-sacrificing people like you."


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


"Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day."


"I have been working a lot, and I like it. And you know, it's hard for me not to. I guess I've been working a lot because I get to play with brilliant people."



"Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer - its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins."


"I never want to turn something down because I'm afraid to do it, because of some idea of image or whatever. That was never anything I set out to do. In fact, the opposite, I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make."


"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."


"I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see."



"I think today that it is essential that the Rwandan tribunal continues to prosecute efficiently. And if the U.N. fails to do that, it is sending entirely the wrong message to people who are in the position to complete these atrocities again."


"There go my people, I must find out where they are going so I can lead them."



"Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure."


"A confidence problem exists on the part of the people of the region who desire democratic rule in principle, but remain suspicious of both the fashion with which democratization is presented and the purposes of the democratic world."



"I didn't do drugs, I never did do drugs. Never. I don't have any story of drugs, you know, to speak of. Never did drugs, never was interested in drugs and then I wasn't interested in the people around the drugs."


"True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate."


"Malcolm X raised my consciousness about myself and my people and other people more than any person I know. I knew him before he became Malcolm X."


"Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion."


"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."


"I think another problem people have is they are always searching for that high, and they don't realize they can get that same high with that same person again."



"The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies."


"Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."


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