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People Quotes


"I mean, you have to be able - you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to try to inspire other people to do it, because obviously the first rule is you can't do it by yourself."


"I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person."


"I have no use for people who hunt for what they call sport."


"Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke."


"Until fighting ends and there are conditions, which allow the free expression of will by the people, there can be no elections and elections are not held in these circumstances anywhere in the world."


"When you won that title you should know now that you are representing a whole country or nation with your actions and you are now in a glass house or under a microscope and you better be ready to make your people proud."


"A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things."


"There go my people, I must find out where they are going so I can lead them."


"I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together."


"I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro."


"The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves."


"And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is."


"I try to be careful to not just say it's a greatest hits show because we've also made efforts to keep people up to date so to speak because we continually write and record and put out albums."


"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."


"As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't."


"You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go."


"Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing."


"It used to be that you knew your neighbors and maybe your coworkers - the people in your physical vicinity."


"If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it."


"People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film."


"It's totally different. I usually don't tell people about the Pleased if they know me from the harp. And if they are there to see the Pleased, I usually don't tell them about the harp. I am nervous that these people will expect something similar."


"A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people."


"The fact is that the economy is really posed for the kind of recovery that people can see and understand."


"I can't tell you how many people have asked me to show them Stray Cat Strut and that little diminished run on the C. I guess my brain is wired backwards. I don't know what possessed me to do that, but I did."


"We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children."


"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members."


"One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves."


"The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed."


"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."


"The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people."


"When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic."


"Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult."
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