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People Quotes
"When news of the crash came, probably a lot of people in small towns and farms across America felt a sense of grim satisfaction that the sinners had finally been punished for their wicked ways."
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"Actually, I find it embarrassing being a pop star. I prefer it when people just treat me like anybody else, although occasionally there is a side of me, which is indulgent and I expect certain things because of my position. It's one of the perks."
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"People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films."
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"You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that... we're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good."
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"Fame is a very confusing thing, because you are recognized by a lot of people that you've never seen before, and they're at a great advantage."
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"At the present moment the people of England are only three-quarters fed, and the result of this improvement in the export of our manufactures would be, that they would be entirely fed."
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"I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways."
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"The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts."
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"I'm well into sort of Santiago Calatrava and people like that."
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"We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity."
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"Never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more out of touch with the American people than they are today."
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"Some people are directors and I think they should stay behind the camera."
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"American people are not evil. Given information, they will do the right thing. But they're not given the information."
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"Everyone should get their news however they want to and in whatever form they want. I'm not going to sit back in judgment of other people and the way they do it."
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"See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you? Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles? Or do you believe that people just get lucky?"
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"If we in fact were to begin enforcing the law against people who are hiring people who are here illegally, we would go a long way towards eliminating the problem."
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"I think what we need is a more welcoming mode from the people who put on a hundred million country-western shows on television. How about a monthly jazz show?"
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"Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness."
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"In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try."
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"What Democrats call 'nuanced,' most people refer to as 'stupidity.'"
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"Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures."
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"Studios were just run differently. There really was a head of a studio. There were people who loved their studios. Who worked for their studios and were loaned out to other people and everybody sort of got a piece. Well now there's a handful now."
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"I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity."
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"Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking."
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"I try to keep myself as sane and as grounded as possible by surrounding myself with normal people, such as all the friends that I've had from when I was little."
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"I suppose my look, the way I play - you combine all that sort of stuff and that makes people interested in what I actually do. So then, when off-the-field stuff happens... I suppose it's one of those cocktail mixes."
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"Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction."
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"I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple."
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"People who don't use the tools given to them only injure themselves."
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"I don't want people to remember me going through the motions."
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"A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job."
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"But some people will say you just did these programs. Well, yes, the programs are important and I'm proud of the programs, but mostly I'm proud of the way the San Francisco Symphony plays these programs."
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"There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing."
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"I would think that other people could see if you had other talents. I grew and expanded from the Elly May role. I was doing real estate and personal appearances and kept my foot in the door."
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