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People Quotes


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


"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."


"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.'"


"I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them."


"Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can't put their finger on me."


"More often than what you're suggesting, I find people are surprised that I have an urban side to me."


"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."


"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."


"People in New Hampshire know that I'll talk thoughtfully, substantively about any issue."


"The President is the people's lobbyist."


"I'll just be sitting down having dinner with girlfriends or something and people come up and ruin the dinner."


"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."


"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."


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


"The fact is that America relies on Amtrak to move people."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too."


"We're not the millionaires that people think when they see busses."


"When I teach people, I marry them."


"People do not win people fights. Lawyers do."


"We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best."


"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."


"I rely on my instincts and intuition, and I feel it's so imperative for people to follow not the path but their path."


"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."


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