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People Quotes
"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other."
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"I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it."
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"I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to a Southerner. They're two different worlds."
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"The people have already determined Chechnya's status at the referendum - it is a unit of the Russian Federation. Its political status is not to be discussed any more."
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"On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What happened recently in Spain affects us here and brings questions up. It is too bad that people have to be shaken up in that way."
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"People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it."
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"Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people."
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"I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety and a singer; old-fashioned entertainment - it won't die easily."
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"In my day, people didn't do nude scenes. I mean they didn't exist."
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"No amount of humanitarian assistance can protect people from being attacked."
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"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."
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"I don't have any friends and don't have any intention of making any. People will stab you in the back, mistreat you, talk about me behind your back, steal from you. And they're not really your friends. They're only there because you're a celebrity or because they want to get something from you."
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"The mere fact of an American being present could help save the lives of innocent people. That's why I believe in the importance of bearing witness, to become a voice for the voiceless."
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"For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction."
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"You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it."
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"Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day."
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"What I do not accept is the fact that so many people's talents were ripped off."
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"There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway."
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"The Commission has five commissioners from each side, plus three alternates, so all together sixteen members, people who are independent from the two governments, who have a lot of integrity, professional competence, and who have credibility in their respective countries."
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"I think that by October the whole company has to migrate to OpenOffice, and then I think it's by June next year we all migrate to Linux - you don't want to migrate 6,000 people both operating system and office suite in a single jump."
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"People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man."
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"I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves."
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"To some people heavy metal is Motorhead and to others it's Judas Priest."
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"We've got very large freshman class, it's historic in its size, so there's people that are extremely diverse in their backgrounds and their viewpoints. I think that we're going to see a conservative group of people coming together, focused on some real ideals that are going to be extremely important."
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"In the housing projects, people talked of ways to reduce crime, relieve overcrowding, and they were good ideas that we plan to study, and possibly implement."
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"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people."
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"Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it."
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"Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat."
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"A lot of people say to me, 'Why did you kill Christ?' I dunno, it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know."
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