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People Quotes


"People gave us everything for free. We were allowed only so much film per picture, but there was no limit to the creativity. I like to say that they let us loose like wild dogs in the streets of Paris."


"We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third of the gay movement voted Republican."


"It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any disputes between the white people."


"Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little."


"For the last four or five years, I had been in the position where I didn't have to take a pilot. I took this one because the script and the people were terrific. It never frightened me. As we were doing the pilot, I could tell that it was working."


"There's no one actor in particular that I want to model my career after, except for the people who have been able to keep their career varied and who choose things that interest them. That opportunity is all I really want."


"The participation in European elections was always not very exciting. People are very interested in European issues, but they don't see the person who is representing Europe."


"It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark."


"I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable."


"Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people."



"I think it's pretty obvious to most people that Napster is not media specific, but I could see a system like Napster evolving into something that allows users to locate and retrieve different types of data other than just MP3s or audio files."


"There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people."


"That was very close to getting killed. Usually at pop festivals we have people jumping on stage."


"The vocals are what immediately draw people in and sell the song."


"People tend to overstate my resilience, but, of course, I hope they're right."


"People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous."


"We had every problems starting a big top could have. The tent fell down on the first day. We had problems getting people into the shows. It was only with the courage and arrogance of youth that we survived."


"There are a lot of people I would have liked to have collaborated with, and would still like to."



"We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making."


"My way of fitting in was through jokes and making people laugh."


"I am very proud of what we have built in Spain, because it is not a traditional Formula 1 country. I think we have found passionate fans, and built up a strong culture for the sport - and things are improving every day, with more and more people getting interested."


"James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention."


"There are a lot of people who waited a lot of years to become citizens. These people just walked across the border."


"What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices."


"It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on."



"Just do the math. In the next 50 to 75 years, people will be living to be 130 and 140. They'll be working until they're 100. It's incredible."


"More young people believe they'll see a U.F.O. than that they'll see their own Social Security benefits."



"People have always said - those words, 'too conservative,' is fairly relative. I'm sure that they probably said that about Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and Benjamin Franklin."


"And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things."


"Guns are neat little things, aren't they? They can kill extraordinary people with very little effort."


"I defend the right of almost everything to be published... because I think that you're better off in trusting the marketplace than allowing other people to make that decision."


"Most achievers I know are people who have made a strong and deep dedication to pursuing a particular goal. That dedication took a tremendous amount of effort."


"When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it."


"The cartoons which I enjoy have caused some kind of out rage, but they have got people talking about these issues out in the open and in essence that's what its all about."


"People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad."



"You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold."
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