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People Quotes


"I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head."


"This country isn't a melting pot. Think of this country as a stir fry. That's what this country should be. A place where people are appreciated for who they are."



"People would get up and leave so they would not have to sit anywhere near me."


"I think that this liberal progressive agenda is not the thing that the American people want and it's antithesis to who we are as a constitutional republic."


"So our films had a lot more to them than entertainment value, and I'm glad that a lot of people recognize that now. People realize now the value of them as educational."


"Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet."


"People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom."


"Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup."


"People who have seen me read usually come up afterwards and invite me to be a part of something."


"The only thing that's a little tricky about it is sometimes people assume that if it's a new song, it's a reflection of what you're feeling or going through now."


"I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because people's lives don't have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying."


"People are talking of his susceptibility to the rising delivery, but let me tell you that when you are out of form, every ball looks like a hand grenade."


"I'm always suspicious of people who repent of other people's sins."


"I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on."



"People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses."


"What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices."


"They think I'm depressed because I look serious in photos. It's usually because I'm just nervous. But I've stopped dressing for other people. If I think I look good, that's the most important thing."


"It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on."


"Just do the math. In the next 50 to 75 years, people will be living to be 130 and 140. They'll be working until they're 100. It's incredible."


"People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange."


"We decide based on how people look; we decide based on how people sound; we decide based on how people are dressed. We decide based on their passion."


"Well, softness and femininity like yours people don't expect of me; so when they find me emotional and capable of real vulnerability, they're surprised."


"So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award."


"Anthology shows as a whole scare people. The networks can't quite get their heads around it."


"The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I'm gay know."


"You know, I think, people of all stripes in California, Republicans, Democrats, conservatives, liberals, frankly, as I have traveled the state, the number one issue is jobs. And they are looking for which candidate can get the economy back on track."


"There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, "There you are" and those who say, "Here I am""


"One very clear impression I had of all the Beautiful People was their prudence. It may be that they paid for their own airline tickets, but they paid for little else."


"I defend the right of almost everything to be published... because I think that you're better off in trusting the marketplace than allowing other people to make that decision."


"It's usually, my people speak to your people and then they speak around each other and trade calls for weeks."
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