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People Quotes
"Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing."
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"It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person."
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"If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive."
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"It was interesting to do a completely fictional piece. You know, Saving Private Ryan was not a fictional piece! So the challenge was: How do you incorporate real emotions? How do you incorporate aspects that people are going to be able to identify with?"
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"I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate."
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"I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek."
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"I tried to draw people more realistically, but the figure I neglected to update was myself."
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"It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment."
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"Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane."
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"All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride."
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"Sometimes interviews are fun and good conversations, but stuff like photo shoots and appearances at places where you have to meet a lot of people - I was never really made for this kind of stuff."
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"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds."
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"A confidence problem exists on the part of the people of the region who desire democratic rule in principle, but remain suspicious of both the fashion with which democratization is presented and the purposes of the democratic world."
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"Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away."
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"Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled 'wrong'."
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"You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours."
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"Until fighting ends and there are conditions, which allow the free expression of will by the people, there can be no elections and elections are not held in these circumstances anywhere in the world."
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"People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything."
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"It is difficult to say today whether the Battle of Kosovo was a defeat or a victory for the Serbian people, whether thanks to it we fell into slavery or we survived in this slavery."
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"When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people."
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"Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it."
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"If you can't laugh at yourself, then how can you laugh at anybody else? I think people see the human side of you when you do that."
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"I have been working a lot, and I like it. And you know, it's hard for me not to. I guess I've been working a lot because I get to play with brilliant people."
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"The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well."
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"All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished."
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"I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes."
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"Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals."
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"People want economy and they will pay any price to get it."
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"Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible."
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"You've got people who didn't serve with John Kerry saying they did serve with John Kerry in the boat. With George Bush, we can't find anybody who did serve with him."
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"Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results."
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"People in so many countries look up to the United States as a model of democracy, but I doubt if that can continue. It leaves me with a great sense of loss."
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