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People Quotes


"I've liked lots of people 'til I went on a picnic jaunt with them."



"People can get certain good things out of fame, but until it killed a princess nobody ever talked about how bad it can be."


"And the danger is - and it's happening - is we're seeing an incredibly big rise amongst young gay people, young heterosexual people as far as catching HIV, which is, you know, in an educated country like this or in Britain, it's frightening."



"Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world."


"I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal."


"I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country."


"It's not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the likes of Francis Bacon or that boring drunk Dylan Thomas. You don't forget things like that."


"The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people."


"During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered."



"You know, people always think if you start out as a film editor, you shoot less footage. Actually, just the opposite is true. I tend to grab as much coverage as I can because as a former editor I know how important it is to have those few frames."


"Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions."


"Ladies and gentlemen, on the occasion of my election I received many letters from people representing all segments of the population and all professions, especially from the younger generation, linking my inauguration with great - far too great - expectations."



"Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could."


"A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die."


"Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on."


"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."


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


"Never impose your language on people you wish to reach."


"Yeah, I've had the privilege to know a lot of really talented people."


"I was born in the USA, which many people still find hard to believe."


"If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't learn."


"I can't stand being around anal people, especially anal people with big egos."


"As a performer you are being used to keep people watching so the commercial endorsements that support the network can be seen by as many people as possible."


"A lot of people didn't realize that I acted before I did anything else."


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


"I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing."


"The best thing going for us is Al Gore. I cannot conceive how the American people could elect him. On the other hand, I couldn't conceive how they could elect a Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton - especially Clinton in '96."


"The American public tunes in every night hoping to see two people screwing. Obviously, we can't give them that but let's always keep it in mind."



"Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases."
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