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"People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different."
Kazuo Ishiguro
"People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different."
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"I have, on the other hand, felt ill will from various people in the industry and the press."
Rob Lowe
"I have, on the other hand, felt ill will from various people in the industry and the press."
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"But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on."
Katherine Dunn
"But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on."
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"It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass."
Eudora Welty
"It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass."
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"I've turned down a lot of arena dates because I've done the big-arena thing. Now, I want to do something where people can feel me and I can feel them."
Whitney Houston
"I've turned down a lot of arena dates because I've done the big-arena thing. Now, I want to do something where people can feel me and I can feel them."
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"I see people detained for simple INS violations."
Sibel Edmonds
"I see people detained for simple INS violations."
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"We have always been a great national party, with views on all the main issues. We recognise that what matters to people most are those things that affect their daily lives: schools, hospitals, transport and law and order and we have plenty to say about them."
John Redwood
"We have always been a great national party, with views on all the main issues. We recognise that what matters to people most are those things that affect their daily lives: schools, hospitals, transport and law and order and we have plenty to say about them."
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"It's not important to me that people understand me."
Kate Bush
"It's not important to me that people understand me."
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"I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'"
Nikki Giovanni
"I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'"
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"I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them."
Spalding Gray
"I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them."
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"Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can't put their finger on me."
Lenny Kravitz
"Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can't put their finger on me."
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"More often than what you're suggesting, I find people are surprised that I have an urban side to me."
Ashley Judd
"More often than what you're suggesting, I find people are surprised that I have an urban side to me."
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"Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling."
Bill Evans
"Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling."
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"In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either."
Ike Turner
"In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either."
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"People in New Hampshire know that I'll talk thoughtfully, substantively about any issue."
John Sununu
"People in New Hampshire know that I'll talk thoughtfully, substantively about any issue."
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"And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by."
Richard Attenborough
"And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by."
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"We know grooming is important for people. To get their hair done, to get makeup and things like that - that makes a person feel better."
Kenneth Williams
"We know grooming is important for people. To get their hair done, to get makeup and things like that - that makes a person feel better."
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"The President is the people's lobbyist."
Hubert H. Humphrey
"The President is the people's lobbyist."
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"I'll just be sitting down having dinner with girlfriends or something and people come up and ruin the dinner."
Holly Valance
"I'll just be sitting down having dinner with girlfriends or something and people come up and ruin the dinner."
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"Unattractive people are more obsessed with looks."
Rae Dawn Chong
"Unattractive people are more obsessed with looks."
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"If people were really naked and everyone knew what each other was thinking, everyone would probably just laugh... or they'd lock each other up."
Robyn Hitchcock
"If people were really naked and everyone knew what each other was thinking, everyone would probably just laugh... or they'd lock each other up."
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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
Hunter S. Thompson
"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
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"I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes."
George Eads
"I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes."
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"Even, today, when people tell me I'm beautiful, I do not believe a word of it."
Uma Thurman
"Even, today, when people tell me I'm beautiful, I do not believe a word of it."
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"The fact is that America relies on Amtrak to move people."
Tim Bishop
"The fact is that America relies on Amtrak to move people."
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"They really stay just characters to me. I look at them, and I don't see always the same person up there. And hopefully, people will see that too. Because it's very easy to bore people, and that's a killer. So hopefully that won't happen."
Charlize Theron
"They really stay just characters to me. I look at them, and I don't see always the same person up there. And hopefully, people will see that too. Because it's very easy to bore people, and that's a killer. So hopefully that won't happen."
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"So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window."
Gerard Way
"So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window."
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"I've stood up to producers before, and even a director. I saw them being abusive. A lot of people on the set are scared to say stuff when they're not being treated right."
Natalie Portman
"I've stood up to producers before, and even a director. I saw them being abusive. A lot of people on the set are scared to say stuff when they're not being treated right."
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"Because a lot of straight people think I'm nuts."
Pia Zadora
"Because a lot of straight people think I'm nuts."
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"I just think the word interview, although it is the view between two people exchanged, became a sort of cliche. You ask questions and the other one answers."
Maximilian Schell
"I just think the word interview, although it is the view between two people exchanged, became a sort of cliche. You ask questions and the other one answers."
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"To me, that means getting back to the point where our Constitution means that you don't tap people's phones and poke into their e-mail and you don't arrest people and keep them hidden for a year and a half without charging them."
Carol Moseley Braun
"To me, that means getting back to the point where our Constitution means that you don't tap people's phones and poke into their e-mail and you don't arrest people and keep them hidden for a year and a half without charging them."
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"I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy."
Jurgen Klinsmann
"I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy."
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"I have tremendous admiration for everyone who enters the political arena so long as their goal is to do what they believe is right for the people of New York."
George Pataki
"I have tremendous admiration for everyone who enters the political arena so long as their goal is to do what they believe is right for the people of New York."
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"The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes."
Victoria Pratt
"The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes."
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"The Minnesota spirit of compassion and help for people in need has moved countless Minnesotans to step forward to provide relief for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina."
Jim Ramstad
"The Minnesota spirit of compassion and help for people in need has moved countless Minnesotans to step forward to provide relief for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina."
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"Being selected Most Improved was a special individual award because when I speak to young people I always try to tell them the importance about it's not where you start but where you end up."
Kevin Johnson
"Being selected Most Improved was a special individual award because when I speak to young people I always try to tell them the importance about it's not where you start but where you end up."
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"People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too."
George Carey
"People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too."
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"We're not the millionaires that people think when they see busses."
Josh Silver
"We're not the millionaires that people think when they see busses."
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"Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our country, and many more would come; that he wanted the land marked out so that the Indians and the white man could be separated."
Chief Joseph
"Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our country, and many more would come; that he wanted the land marked out so that the Indians and the white man could be separated."
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"When I teach people, I marry them."
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
"When I teach people, I marry them."
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"People do not win people fights. Lawyers do."
Norman Ralph Augustine
"People do not win people fights. Lawyers do."
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"I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do."
Ed Harris
"I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do."
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"When people are divided, the only solution is agreement."
John Hume
"When people are divided, the only solution is agreement."
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"I really don't want to say goodbye to any of you people."
Christa McAuliffe
"I really don't want to say goodbye to any of you people."
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"We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best."
Anatole France
"We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best."
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"Inventories can be managed, but people must be led."
Ross Perot
"Inventories can be managed, but people must be led."
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"We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again."
Calvin Coolidge
"We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again."
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"I rely on my instincts and intuition, and I feel it's so imperative for people to follow not the path but their path."
Emma Stone
"I rely on my instincts and intuition, and I feel it's so imperative for people to follow not the path but their path."
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"People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are just staggering."
Michael Zaslow
"People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are just staggering."
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"The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people."
Henry A. Wallace
"The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people."
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