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People Quotes


"On network TV, I'm still Phoebe to people, and it would be hard to convince them otherwise in the bright lights of a sitcom."


"A lot of pop people out there are cool, but they overdo it."


"A book reaches a different crowd of people. There are 50 different stories of very different individuals participating in their communities either locally or nationally in meaningful ways."


"I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that."


"I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return."


"Opposing the free flow of goods or people is a bad idea."


"I'm not that interested in what people make of it, or how people consider me. That's nothing to do with me."


"I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights."


"Of course I'm sure half the people there hate me and half the people like me."


"You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people."


"People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing - but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation."



"So people are ready. I feel hopeful in that sense."


"At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places."


"The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else."


"It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda."


"I just think you people would be happier back in Africa where you came from."


"Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind."


"I'd much rather have sat there and just been a fly on the wall, instead of having to smile at people. I'd rather have been a waitress. Just gone round and stared at people."


"We had so much fun in Ghana and they are really lovely people."



"Well, you know, certain - for one reason, I think that the intervention process is a good process for most people, but for me, it just looked like a bunch of my friends trying to get back at me and sit around taking jabs at me, you know, when I couldn't defend myself."


"I respect the people who buy my records and come to my concerts. It's only fair that I always try to give them the very best that's in me. After all, I need them more than they need me."



"I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you'll get another group of people doing it."


"When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional."


"We created the ability for people to insert enterprise or personal data."


"Instead of going out and shooting people, why don't you go start a band."


"Strategy 101 is about choices: You can't be all things to all people."


"I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes."


"Walt gave me a VIP tour of the studio. I remember people doing voices."


"We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged."


"I hate it when people lose it, there's nothing left because they're not interesting, they're boring, I hate it, and especially smack, people on smack are the most boring in the world."



"We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting."



"When you're constantly looking for things from other people, you're not looking within yourself."


"As one of the voices of rural New Yorkers in Congress, I am committed to supporting efforts such as these that will make a real impact in people's lives."


"Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people."


"Between New York and LA, there's 200 million people that aren't hip, and they don't want to be hip."


"I know a lot of people who are very good at their craft who have learned - people behind the camera - who really have a lot to offer because they know what they're doing, they know what to do, they've made their mistakes."


"The thing that you're faulted on today is not that you are too tough, or not that you aren't careful. It's that you might have been too soft. People want that red meat now because you have to keep up with the mood and the mood today is harsh. It really is."


"For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the people can be required to serve. For us the word is only a label for the arrangements by which we the people delegate to some among us responsibility for things that concern us in common."


"My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves."


"Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims."
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