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People Quotes
"To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal."
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"Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh."
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"When you were growing up in the 30s, 20s, of course the 40s, all black people at least in the Washington, D.C., area were required to live among themselves."
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"If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people."
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"When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else."
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"I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care."
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"When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous."
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"I don't think about what other people want from me."
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"Unfortunately, I'm not one of those people who take pictures, you know, carry a camera. Because if I did I'd have stack's and stack's and stack's of different act's. I got a lot here - I know what I done."
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"You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept."
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"Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent."
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"I think that there is a relatively small number of people who are pushing for independence in Taiwan."
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"I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star."
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"You can't listen to what people who aren't musical have to say. When Anytime was released, I had bad reviews, and at first I was hurt. Your songs are like your children. You don't want to hear, 'Your kid is ugly.' But I knew the record was good and it would sell."
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"I think it's a good thing that there are bloggers out there watching very closely and holding people accountable. Everyone in the news should be able to hold up to that kind of scrutiny. I'm for as much transparency in the newsgathering process as possible."
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"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them."
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"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."
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"The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently."
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"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."
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"Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error."
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"I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable."
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"People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him."
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"People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable."
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"I consider myself to be a pretty good judge of people... that's why I don't like any of them."
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"You're torn between wanting to fill in all the spaces and knowing that's really going to screw up the screenplay. And yet, how are you going to communicate it to people who really don't understand the process?"
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"Today osteoporosis affects more than 75 million people in the United States, Europe and Japan and causes more than 2.3 million fractures in the USA and Europe alone."
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"As politicians we have to react to the fact that many people do not feel that they can relate to the EU."
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"Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares."
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"I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the younger generation."
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"Bush is a frat boy in the White House but we've had that before. But I wasn't one of those people that was threatening to leave the country. By the way none of those people have left the country. Alec Baldwin is still here."
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"It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism."
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"One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction."
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"People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore, they are flawed and have weaknesses."
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"It did not come naturally; in fact, it would be difficult to conceive of any more dogmatic and less tolerant people than the first settlers on New England shores."
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"Some people come up and say they would like me to play Boba Fett again."
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"Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast becoming an entirely different people."
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"I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being thrown away. There is no sense of rehabilitation. In some places, they are trying to do things. But, in most cases, it's a holding cell."
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"When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep."
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"Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it."
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