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People Quotes


"Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people."



"There is no way you're going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000 people in New York on that day, and if they could have they would've killed 300,000."


"It's pretty overwhelming to know that people can call up Moviefone and find out where it's playing."


"For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without enough alarms being sounded to be heard and heeded."


"You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past."



"The worst thing is to get involved with people who aren't passionate about what they're doing."


"There's so much of, it could have been a very critical examination of what happened, and really the emotional lives of the people involved sort of carry the characters forward."


"When people say 'love to hate', they actually mean 'love to be appalled by' - if they truly hated them, they'd never repeat a catch phrase."


"Businesses must invest in products and people in order to create new wealth."


"I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities."


"People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening."


"It was a few days later I came out to Hollywood for a screen test, and so did a lot of other people. So, I really didn't think I would get it. I was definitely the one that was least likely to get it, because everyone else was an already established star."



"We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood not only the United States, but other countries in the region, creating great instability."



"When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying."


"People read things into my commercials that don't even exist."


"If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful, I get to make more films, great, and the more films that I make and the more interest that I'm allowed to cover, the better for me and the better, hopefully, for the people who like to watch me."



"For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands."


"Let me close as I did in Gander on September 11, 2002 when I went to that community to thank the people of Gander and the people of Canada for the overwhelming support and help that was given to us in the wake of those attacks on September 11, 2001."


"President Reagan always gave the credit to the American people and American ideals. He treated his job as a valuable temporary loan from the American people, a loan that should be respected and returned with dutiful appreciation."


"I was one of the first people to learn that Jackie was going to marry Aristotle Onassis."


"I don't think the American people, if you look historically, elect angry candidates."


"People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents."


"I just find it thrilling, especially when I totally lock in to the person that I am doing and I'm really flying... I suppose I am hiding myself when I sing as these other people."


"I don't remember ever being full of dislike and hatred for people, like some kids I've come across now."


"First National Bank laid off 1,000 people; where do they go? There are no jobs for them. So we are having serious economic problems in this country. We are in a real economic crisis."


"I did kung fu up until two weeks before Benjamin was born, and yoga three days a week. I think a lot of people get pregnant and decide they can turn into garbage disposals. I was mindful about what I ate, and I gained only 30 pounds."


"I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same."


"I don't think that the Pulitzer should be given the way it is. I think the competition should be anonymous. I think completely different people would win it if the names were taken off because a lot of it is done on relationships and names."


"I can go in front of an orchestra. I can go in front of an audience. But if you see me walking through an audience in the reception or through a lot of people, I'm still shy."


"I hate elitists. I hate conceited people. I hate pompous people."


"Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys."


"What we're discussing privately and publicly, is a budget which is a blueprint for the future which creates jobs, which educates our children, which provides healthcare for all Americans, which takes our deficit down, which gives a tax cut for 95% of the American people."


"If I were the president, I would be very concerned... and I would do what was reasonably necessary to find a way to get my people confirmed."


"There's a lot of things we can do to balance out what Obama's done and going forward show the American people the Republican Party can govern. I want a coalition of tea party people, independents, moderate Democrats trying to find a way to move this country forward before we become Greece."


"The people on Baywatch were about as nice a group of people as I had ever worked with."
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