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People Quotes
"Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end."
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"I could only speak in the smallest, most intimate circles about the real reasons which made me undertake the changeover of the plants for certain lines of production for I had to expect that many people would not understand me."
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"A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you."
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"You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself."
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"Well, you know, the violence is mostly in Mexico itself, at least the violence that people are worried about. And so we want to make sure that violence does not spill over into our communities that are along the border."
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"I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear?"
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"Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special."
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"Well that's true, and what is actually happening now is that there are accusations that those records contain conspiratorial information that has been concealed from the American people and that is a dangerous situation that just cannot be tolerated."
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"I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people."
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"I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive."
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"Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older."
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"I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do."
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"Now we understand much more clearly. why people from all over the world want to come to New York and to America. It's called freedom."
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"And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about."
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"Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only get that kind of performance on the innovation side, on the financial side, if you're really listening and reacting to the best ideas of the people we have."
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"I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying."
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"I do know there are a lot of people who seem to be in my corner, and that's, of course, wonderful. I'm really more interested in the nomination than in the award, because I think the nomination just puts you within a group of outstanding actors."
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"The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals."
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"Our people were very restive, saying that they could not sit under that notice, and that if the National Board did not call them out soon they would go out of themselves."
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"I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem."
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"There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying."
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"President Reagan achieved such successes because when you sat in a room with him, there could be over 1,000 people in the room, yet you felt like there was only the two of you, and his wonderful wit would put you at ease. That was a tremendous gift."
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"I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes."
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"People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too."
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"These people are amazing. It's so emotional I was thinking about wearing waterproof mascara."
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"I know that Bush, for political reasons, is going to nominate a minority, a Hispanic man or someone where it will be harder for people on the progressive side to oppose and split some of the traditionally progressive or democratic constituents."
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"You can feel like, 'I look really bad', but to other people you can be really gorgeous."
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"In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals."
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"For the Archivist, this role is a result of his obligation to preserve and assure timely and maximum access to our governmental records in the evolving historic saga of the American people."
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"If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously."
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"The Western media tends to place a lot of emphasis on official institutions in Ukraine such as its supreme court, the central election commission, and the parliament. In reality, the people of Ukraine now control their destiny."
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"Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives."
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"I'm not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That's going to take another 100 performances."
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"People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous."
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"The first need of a free people is to define their own terms."
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"Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks."
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