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People Quotes


"Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference."


"It crossed our minds early on that the more an audience cared - we were working before, on average, 240, live people. If you could get them caring - the more they cared, the harder they laughed."


"People do want to know the personal things. How far is too far to go with personal lives?"



"The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears."


"People think that I'm conceited, and I'm not a nice person."


"Something's going to happen that's going to make us all pay attention at the type of sentences some people are serving and the conditions in which they are served."


"The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations."



"There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do."


"The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone."


"No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it."


"You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles."


"I think that as is true in this industry, everything gets blown out of proportion because it's more fun for people to read about. It's even more fun to read about if the stories get wilder and wilder."


"It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people."


"Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent."


"People recognize something's going to happen, and they'd better get ready."


"I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation."


"The real amazing thing about all of this is I think I've maintained the mentality of a musician throughout it all, which I'm proudest of. And I'm still playing on people's records and singing on people's records."


"The office has oversight of people who do analysis and oversight of people who do operations, but it is not charged with doing either. That is an important point to make. Those functions are performed by the CIA, DIA and other agencies."


"The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping."


"Our economy is robust and will remain strong as more Americans who want a job find one. Republican economic policies based on tax relief are working for the American people."


"I just think that most of the people are very close minded."


"When you've written a movie, you then get together with a whole lot of people and make it. In many ways, I think it is far nicer to be with people rather than being completely solitary."


"People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year."


"These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me."


"I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable."


"I lasted one night. They said my playing spoiled people's appetites."


"All I really want to do is entertain people out there sitting in the dark and for them to believe it."


"There was a golden retriever who saved countless lives on September 11 by going back in to find people. His companion was in a wheelchair. He got him out and kept going back in to save others."


"What again I tell my people is that no matter how much you know, it's never enough. You will always discover, after the fact, that you've missed something."


"People say that I'm a millionaire, but that's not true - I only spend millions."


"The Republican Party is a much bigger tent than people give it credit for. We have a lot of what I guess you all call moderate Republicans."


"Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path we're currently on, we might one day get rid of genetic diseases, but only at the cost of our own humanity."


"It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain."
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