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People Quotes
"However, the resources at our people's disposal are very few and we require assistance from the neighboring Arab countries, and for weapons in order to fight the enemy."
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"If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!"
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"I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world."
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"I didn't do drugs, I never did do drugs. Never. I don't have any story of drugs, you know, to speak of. Never did drugs, never was interested in drugs and then I wasn't interested in the people around the drugs."
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"When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic."
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"I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair."
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"I still think people do have racial hang-ups, but I think one of the reasons I can joke about it is people are shedding those racial hatreds."
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"Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide."
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"It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that."
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"A company is only as good as the people it keeps."
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"No matter what side of an argument you're on, you always find some people on your side that wish you were on the other side."
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"I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things."
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"I'm proud, I've been working with this kind of self-sacrificing people like you."
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"Playing in front of an audience was just such a turn-on for me, and you have 200 people in the audience and it's like doing live theater. And filming something that goes to millions of people several weeks later, it's an interesting dynamic."
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"Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame."
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"We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer."
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"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."
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"I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then."
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"If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors."
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"Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?"
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"This is no job for a UN committee. It needs the same kind of unwavering dedication and the kinds of people that got us the first nuclear submarine and the first man on the moon."
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"People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch."
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"I think that it's a vital moment now for Russian democracy to convince people that it's only our actions, our joined actions and protests that could force Kremlin to reconsider its plans to abolish presidential elections."
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"People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates."
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"The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants."
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"A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!"
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"So, it, of course, makes one wonder how many other people there might be who are completely innocent, who have been sent by the U.S. to countries where they've been interrogated, and in some instances it seems tortured."
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"I'll sing as long as people want to hear me, and I'll be able to sing as long as I'm alive."
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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people."
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"Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave."
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"I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out."
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"I just play to good people; they seem to like what I do, and the more they like it, the more I play."
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"They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land."
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