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People Quotes


"The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that. I think we absolutely have rights because there are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire."


"Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness."


"Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood."


"We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition."


"The foyers now look ridiculously small to us because not all that many people used them."


"Studios were just run differently. There really was a head of a studio. There were people who loved their studios. Who worked for their studios and were loaned out to other people and everybody sort of got a piece. Well now there's a handful now."


"People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real."


"I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing."


"Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States."



"There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it."


"One thing young people have to always keep in mind when deciding what they want to do with their lives is, is it fun? Is it something that I'm interested in? Is it something I enjoy?"


"Many characters in the novel are representative of types that exist in India. He represents the caste system in India with an air of superiority, the caste system in India and the people thinking that western things are better."


"Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long."


"When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century."


"People were actually approaching me on the street and thinking that I was an athlete. They couldn't quite place it, but a runner, or swimmer or something."


"The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement."



"You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach them."


"I would think that other people could see if you had other talents. I grew and expanded from the Elly May role. I was doing real estate and personal appearances and kept my foot in the door."


"If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to."


"Sometimes, instead of purchasing a commodity out and out, people want to buy only the use of it, for a longer or shorter period. The price paid for such temporary use is commonly called hire."


"There is no question of the benefits that opening a market of a billion people will bring to American businesses. But as I said last year, this will test China and the world trade system."


"Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues."


"I've done a lot of things and I've been a lot of people, but now I've come to realize who I am."


"I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp."


"It's going to be used in the last days to get people to come against Christ, and that's the issue: they come against the Lord Jesus Christ. And in this new book, we show Christ coming to settle that big issue."


"But in the past, US companies have been able to increase their profits through downsizing in the US, through colonizing other people's resources, and through the increase of globalization."


"It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre."


"I don't think people we'll miss the fact that SDC is way up there and that our profile is high."


"I just don't like people coming up to me and saying something. It immediately makes you become insincere. There is no way you can react to it sincerely."


"Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think."


"I didn't want to make it a lifetime thing. I don't believe in statutory term limits, but people can limit themselves if they want to, and that's what I decided to do."


"There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things, and people who've had their passion punched, beaten, or whatever out of them."
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