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"For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously."



"In addition to joblessness, of course, by the working of supply and demand, when you have a larger number of people unemployed, wages do not rise at the normal level, so that we had last year a drop in real wages."


"To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of the people. So, if the people will it, you can actually create international institutions through the democratic states."


"People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too."



"People are always asking me why they don't make Westerns like they used to."



"A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people."



"I use a professional researcher in New York who does all the legwork, all that stuff which would take me days and weeks of calling, waiting for people to call back."


"We're going to develop - what we want to do is to provide the viewers with what they want from CNN and that is the news. So when people tune in, they'll get the latest news, but they'll also get the biggest story of the day in depth, as CNN does so well."


"I've got mad energy for days. That's what people can't get their minds around. They say, 'Oh, he's going to crash.' They try to apply all these common terms to a guy who is not common. I don't fit into their little box."


"The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves."


"The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany."


"I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with people. I don't think he's as trapped into the drug thing as a lot of the others are."



"A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it's bad."


"People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act the same way."



"It's easy to see the faults in people I know; it's hardest to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there."



"Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it."


"I never, absolutely never, keep people waiting."


"There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just because I'm Ethel Merman."



"People do ask me if I think I can make it in the States."


"Yeah, but in the end his followers take what they want from his philosophy. Maybe it doesn't matter what's going on in David Icke's mind. It's how other people take him."



"Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition."


"I enjoy seeing young people being interested in what they can do."


"We don't have a laugh track, which helped Seinfeld a lot, and did kind of tell people when to laugh. It just made it a lot easier. Our show doesn't have that, so it's hard for Middle America to catch on."


"I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people."


"When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values."


"It's not a very secure industry. I've spoken to a couple of people recently who had a successful TV show and then found themselves absolutely skint and struggling to find a job."


"How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand."


"They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days."


"I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer."


"It's important that people know what you stand for. It's equally important that they know what you won't stand for."



"I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words."


"Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there."


"Certainly, when I walk into an audition, a lot of people already know who I am."
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