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People Quotes


"For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of others might be deprived of any realistic hope of gaining the opportunities now enjoyed by the more fortunate."


"People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists."


"The American people fear there is some gouging going on."


"There's always going to be comparisons, and that's unavoidable. There are people out there who feel I hit my peak with Magician and have gone downhill since."


"When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy."


"I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct."


"I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual."


"For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them."


"And so it's inescapable and people who proclaim scrupulous honesty can only proclaim that if they don't examine closely the things they believe."


"We also need people like social workers, volunteers, the Christian Industrial League, drug treatment programs to make sure you are getting them a job. That's what you have to do. Otherwise, we just keep stepping around these things."


"In the studio, if they need to come down to the floor, things are a bit pushy, although it is easier for them to say things directly rather than through about five people."


"I've reached out to other mayors throughout the United States to form an Olympic Task Force of Mayors, and to community leaders, Congress, and businesspeople. As thousands of people around the country join the movement, it gets more and more exciting."


"To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places."


"Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis."


"People underestimate me, but I've always been a stretch runner."


"But also, the guest workers program, it's quite often misused, meaning people could come in as part of a guest workers program and after two weeks in the fields, they'd run off to do every other kind of job that isn't covered by a guest workers program."


"Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka."


"There are thousands and thousands of free programs available for people of any income level."


"I will fight hard to keep my seat in this place, but that will depend on the people who sent me here."


"The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at."


"There's this notion that allows people to create their own collection of songs, so it rewrites what a song is. They may only want 10 seconds of something, or they may only want this particular song, or they want this group of songs. It becomes much more user-controlled."


"The "what should be" never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no "what should be," there is only what is."


"You can say the right thing about a product and nobody will listen. You've got to say it in such a way that people will feel it in their gut. Because if they don't feel it, nothing will happen."


"Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes."


"I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don't know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don't think you need all that stuff."


"I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors."


"The more we can purge ourselves of the diseases we create the more we can become magnificent people."


"Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that."


"People get very thoughtful when they are in cars. I no longer care for cars. I don't collect them."


"I also want to draw attention to the responsibilities that people have to live up to their election promises and to live up to the votes that were cast by the people of Wales, in the General Election, in the expectation that we would deliver this promise."


"Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist."


"But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on."
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