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People Quotes


"There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists."


"People underestimate the impact they can have on the process through contact with legislators. By being part of an organized group in an area that you have an interest in, you can multiply the impact of your own ideas."


"I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we're looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors - can you imagine wearing those corsets?"


"I don't want people to remember me going through the motions."


"I don't have to ask anyone's permission to do anything. It's nice not have to get decisions out of three, sometimes four people, which can be like pulling teeth. So the amount of control that I have over what I'm doing is better for me as a solo artist."


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


"Yeah, I'm obnoxious, yeah, I cut people off, yeah, I'm rude. You know why? Because you're busy."


"Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity."


"The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform."


"It seems astounding to me now that the video games are perhaps as important as the movie themselves. And people will spend 2 or 3 years obsessing about the video game in exactly the same way that they'd be obsessing about the movie if they were working on that."


"Not exclusively, but the bulk of our local economy should be covered by local currencies, which is more efficient than having global currencies which lose connection with reality in the markets, shops and communities of the people."


"We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy."


"I remember traveling around in Arkansas with Senator Robinson, and I told him what this little trick was. He felt very much part of it and had me take pictures of people unbeknownst to them."


"One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of them."


"All I can say is that I've had too many people in the hip-hop industry really like what I'm doing. I know where I'm coming from, and the album speaks for itself."


"Back then, we didn't know we were poor, and people were more proud then."


"People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy."


"Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it."


"But nowadays hymns are the norm, because people don't have much else to sing."


"It only works because we still amuse each other. After we have been working with other people, it is so refreshing to laugh unreservedly when we are back together again."


"I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation."


"Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting."


"My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold."


"We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie."


"Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber."


"I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff."


"What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional."


"So what I'm trying to say is from a musical aspect for anybody to say that whatever they're doing in Florida is not Hip Hop or whatever they're doing in LA is not Hip Hop, who are these people to say that?"


"Very simply, the culture of another people does not have to be accepted when it is subhuman!"


"Someone said I wasn't attractive enough. People say those things, but they make you stronger. Then you can win an Emmy and think, ha, ha, ha."


"I found in my whole career the best thing that can happen to you is that you hear what people want."
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