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People Quotes


"Being a comedian, people tell me stuff they shouldn't tell their therapist."


"When people told me 'It's great to be here', they meant at the house, not with me."


"First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people."


"Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!"


"With our website we didn't want people to come to our site and find out about Radiohead. We wanted them to come to our site and find out about what Radiohead are finding out about."



"In the beginning, people think vulnerability will make you weak, but it does the opposite. It shows you're strong enough to care."


"It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter."


"And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction."



"The American people must not buy into the Democrat rhetoric."


"You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don't enforce them, people are going to find a way to protect themselves. We need to recognize that bad people are doing bad things with these weapons. It's not the law-abiding citizens, it's not the person who uses it as a hobby."


"See, there were certain rules I'd always used, and people like Trane, they would break those rules."


"When people ask me if Dean Martin drank, let me put it this way. If Dracula bit Dean in the neck, he'd get a Bloody Mary."


"I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes."


"If the year 2000 can help us move into the future, that's fine, but I am afraid that people see it as a full stop and that one can take a big breath afterwards - you can't."


"In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old."


"People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there."


"When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there."


"We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population."



"Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery."



"I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent."


"The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people."


"I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness."


"There are tons of people I'd like to freeze for all of eternity, but we won't go into that!"



"If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?"


"When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend."



"How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours."


"I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous."
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