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People Quotes


"It seems people are more willing to let other people control their minds now and recreational drug use doesn't seem to have that same renegade sense of adventure that it once did."



"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."


"More people deserted our party and we have never recovered."


"You can take charge, kick ass, do whatever you have to do and it's okay. You can blow people up. These are things that are okay for cartoon characters to do."


"Last good pratfall I did, I broke bones in both hands. I still feel it when people shake my hand."


"There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming."


"People are transported to that space that Poe wanted to make available to us."


"I think most people will tell you that. They can go along and, while they're denying that they are addicted, say it's stress this, it's this, it's that. But I - it's - I think - I really believe there is a gene. Some people become addicted and others don't."


"One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one."



"There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn't let me grow up. They always saw me as a smiling kid or goofy teenager, no matter how much I'd changed."



"I will be doing a film called Whispers, for Disney. It's about elephants, and doesn't have any people in it. It will be a live action film - I don't know how much I can say about it, since I still don't know too much about it."


"The other thing is surrounding yourself with people that care for you. These are simple things, but they're powerful, and they've completely transformed who I am and how I perceive myself."


"It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them."


"And I think it's a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don't have a grand piano... and to try to win people over that way. It's really hard."


"People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf."


"The water was like a physiological stimuli to the subconscious that overwhelmed people with too much psychoanalytical material, you might say. People could do 10 breathing sessions without the water, and then they did breathing sessions in the water."


"If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat."


"People have to understand what my game is. It's not all about numbers. There's a bigger picture here. I don't create off the dribble. I rely on my teammates; my role is to set screens and get rebounds."


"I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it."


"What we do now is to be valued - but we need to do more, so that it's more exciting to other people, and therefore that excitement shines back on us and we're able to have the energy to do more, to widen our creativity."


"Even though other people wrote my songs I put my stamp on them. I have a connection, but there is no truer connection than an artists and their own song."


"I really feel kind of guilty spending 80 million dollars. People are starving in the world."



"In every place there are 100 people who can say no and only one person who can say yes. You have to get a good piece of material to the right person."


"The more confident one becomes, the less one needs all people to be the same."


"There are naked people in boots on a mountain top firing guns."


"A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering."



"I can certainly see how people are overcome by depression."


"The people who influenced me most were the people who said I would never make it. They gave me a thirst for revenge."


"Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts."


"I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert at it."


"You have cocktails for 250,000 people when millions upon millions are sick."


"The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs."



"In the United States, commentators recognize that, generally speaking, most people who hold liberal positions over a range of issues will likely vote Democratic, while most people, again generally speaking, who hold conservative positions will vote Republican."


"People who have seen me read usually come up afterwards and invite me to be a part of something."



"So, my tactic with conservation of apex predators is to get people excited and take them to where they live."


"Some people argue that we should limit choice in favour of good local services. My response is simple: why should we assume those two concepts are mutually exclusive?"


"I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing."


"We're imperfect people trapped in an imperfect world until we get to that place beyond."
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