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People Quotes


"One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals."


"David has asked me, a number of people have asked me and said, What performance do you like best or what's the best film you've made and so on and I don't really have any hesitation that the film I'm least embarrassed by and ashamed of or uneasy about is Shadowlands."


"At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that."


"I'm more of a homebody. I'm constantly asked: 'Why don't we see you out?' But that's not what drives me. I prefer to have people over - which I do a lot, because I bought a house that's way too big for me, and four of my friends live there."


"I felt like an apostle of the obvious and people imagined that I was doing something daring."


"It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people."


"I feel very comfortable with the way I look, and I feel very comfortable with the kind of confusion that it creates in people's minds."


"To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal."


"There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new."


"Well, because we're so different as people. And it's that difference that probably also makes it easy to stay together, because we don't get in each others way."


"I think DOOM had just the right mix of elements that keep people coming back to it: great monsters, excellent weapons with great balance, a spooky environment and extreme speed."


"After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation."


"To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them."


"There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave."


"Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen."


"Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember."


"When you have an accident, they will save their own people, and those who have worked with you or with the NGOs are left. Unfortunately, this happens always. It is not an excuse at all."


"The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead."


"Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts."


"I don't eat or wear animals, but I never tell people not to - that's just my view."


"Well, you know, when people say stuff about you, it's always really flattering. But does it mean anything to me? It's not really real to me; there's no reality to it."


"Research has shown that people who volunteer often live longer."


"I believe I'm going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I'm going to die high off the people. I believe I'm going to die a revolutionary in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle."


"It was there that, through a mutual friend, I met John Waters - proving what I've always said: you meet the best people on field trips."


"If I gave a damn what other people think of me, I would be more like other people."


"Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice."


"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."


"There is not enough high intellect to be catered to and when most people think of Hiphop they think of low intellect."



"The people who went on that airplane were unexceptional."
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