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People Quotes


"We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people."


"Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack."


"I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody."


"The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings."


"So many people always try to help me carry my luggage and help me do things I can do myself. If I can do it myself, I'm going to do it myself. I'm not going to let other people do it for me, and I think that's a big part of where I came from. I'm not a real prissy girl."


"Anyone who thinks that people can be fooled or pushed around has an inaccurate and pretty low estimate of people - and he won't do very well in advertising."


"They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgable in the fields of plumbing and electricity."


"He doesn't make it so complicated but just really allows the lyric to come through even though there's a lot of production going on. I think that's the key and that's the magic, it's making sure that people could still connect with the lyrics while they're on the dance floor."


"I wanted to make these people real, not like they were in a painting. Like these are people who don't know they're in a period movie. Those concerns are incredibly immediate."


"Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough as you and you should never speak out of an orchestra."


"One girl was helped from my appearance on the show, and I swore I would not keep quiet again. When you talk about things that are embarrassing or devastating, obviously you can help people when you do."


"A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast."


"It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not."


"I know if I don't tour people will forget the record and you run a high risk of the record failing."


"I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving."


"Usually I play people who just keep babbling on and on and on."


"As far as a Latin explosion, I'm sorry, I'm the only Latino who's going to say it, but there is no Latin explosion. I'm sorry. Four or five top box office people do not make it an explosion, and it's disgusting to me that people will perceive it that way."


"It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism."


"So the actual riffing came out of us just sitting there and doing it the way I think some people think we really did it, which is all spontaneously, and it really was."


"I have a great interest in a number of things, perhaps too many. I admire people who seem to concentrate on only one fixed discipline to the exclusion of almost everything else."


"I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people."


"Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls."


"What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate?"


"Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'"


"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."


"So I don't cry anymore, I just beat people up. It's a lot more fun."


"It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than by 60 million for something you're not."


"My sympathies have always been for working-class people."


"I figured the people who liked the sort of thing I was doing would come see it. If it was only 200 then that was alright and if it was 2000 then that is alright as well. I wasn't really interested in the big numbers; I was just interested in some numbers."


"I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut-or get angry from the gut."
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