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People Quotes
"I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way."
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"You must go deeper into Russia - 150 kilometres from Moscow or more, and look there. The kids are fed with cattle feed - people don't get paid for half a year."
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"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."
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"They were targeting those people I referred to as 'little Eichmanns.' These were legitimate targets."
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"What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists."
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"The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that."
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"The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it."
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"What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other."
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"Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs."
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"I have confidence in people's basic common sense."
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"I expected to get drafted. I knew that I wouldn't get drafted on that first day due to the fact that not a lot of people had the opportunity to see me play much."
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"When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying."
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"Although there was a point with the Tijuana Brass where we were playing for such huge crowds that I kind of lost contact. At one point, the only connection I had with the audience was with people out there lighting cigarettes."
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"I urge people to learn from the mistakes of others. Please drink responsibly and it's never acceptable to drink and drive!"
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"I mean, that's another big surprise of the show, is that I see sixteen year old people who recognize me and they're honest, for-real fans of the show. And it goes down to nine months. I mean, I've heard of nine month to year-old children who are watching the show."
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"We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians."
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"I think people think we're all sipping martinis by the pool."
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"We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread."
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"I want to see people turn and writhe; make them feel things they cannot see and sometimes do not know."
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"When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed."
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"I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious."
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"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made."
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"It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam."
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"And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I'd be wearing a big T shirt, a big baggy T shirt and loose jeans. You know, to try and show people that there was more to me than just that."
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"A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain; you cannot have either until you have both."
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"I do not think that condemning people who murder and killing them necessarily sends out the right message."
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"It didn't seem remotely possible. I had no idea how people got those jobs, I didn't know what the steps were, it never even dawned on me. It seemed so outside the realm of possibility."
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"Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing's changed."
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"I employ 20 people in Vienna. The other 130 coworkers are pilots and flight companions. The Overhead is limited with me. Reduces naturally the costs of my fliers."
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"People in the U.S. will watch anything if it's put in front of their face over and over again. I like to see what's possible, more than anything."
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"I believe that our message of rebuilding America is one that will resonate with the American people."
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"I just find it thrilling, especially when I totally lock in to the person that I am doing and I'm really flying... I suppose I am hiding myself when I sing as these other people."
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"Maybe the best way to get people to be pro-life is to start 'em off in amateur-life."
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