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People Quotes


"A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job."


"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."


"There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing."


"You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do."


"I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp."


"I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me."


"But in the past, US companies have been able to increase their profits through downsizing in the US, through colonizing other people's resources, and through the increase of globalization."



"And some people, you've got to lock up. If you don't, they're going to hurt you."


"Let the people think they govern and they will be governed."


"This is a group playing together and that's the only way, I feel, this play can be successful and moving. I am so lucky to have the people that are in it. When I came here I didn't know who was going to be in the play."


"The problem with the auto industry is layered upon the lack of consumer confidence. People are not buying cars. I don't care whether they're or American cars, or international cars."


"Many people secretly think that gays are a lot happier than they are, and want to punish them."


"People can tell you what to do, but ultimately, we're all going to die, so how do you want to live?"


"I wish to please the people, but I want to make them cry, perhaps. There, I have said it."


"But of course when people watch morning television, Terry, it's a very different animal. You know, they're running around, they're getting their kids ready for school, they're probably doing eight million things, they're brushing their teeth."


"I put those people in place. I trusted them. I had no idea they would do anything like this."


"I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people."


"It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit."



"Most people might just as well buy a share of the whole market, which pools all the information, than delude themselves into thinking they know something the market doesn't."


"Many people think it's in bad taste to advertise for an insane asylum... but come on down. We're going crazy."



"I've been amazed that it's so popular with people. But it's been fantastic. People are very excited when I walk into a place and they recognize me from the series."


"These days people wallow in enormous masses of sound."


"Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured."


"People that really know me will tell you that I am not a video vixen."


"We are thinking ahead to long-term care, aware that many folks don't plan ahead and won't be ready. We want to see to it that people will have choices."


"If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers."


"When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans."


"People would say I really loved Buck Rogers until the Hawk guy came on."


"I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future."


"Most films I've worked on have had large casts, but they've been wonderful people. I think the monkey in Pirates of the Caribbean is the most temperamental costar I've had. It would throw tantrums like you wouldn't believe."


"Little did we know it would be watched by millions of people and break viewing records."
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