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People Quotes


"I think today that it is essential that the Rwandan tribunal continues to prosecute efficiently. And if the U.N. fails to do that, it is sending entirely the wrong message to people who are in the position to complete these atrocities again."


"If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air."


"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."


"I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people."


"People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude."


"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."


"It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves."


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


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


"When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow."


"I never want to turn something down because I'm afraid to do it, because of some idea of image or whatever. That was never anything I set out to do. In fact, the opposite, I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make."


"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."



"First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people."


"Here is the simple but powerful rule... always give people more than they expect to get."


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



"Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy."


"I'm confident in our resolve to make the decisions necessary to keep our country and our people safe and prosperous and I look forward to representing the citizens of Pennsylvania's 6th Congressional District for the next two years."


"What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road."


"I can remember standing in the middle of the field after the race and seeing the American flag raised and hearing 'The Star Spangled Banner' and all the people singing it. Then I walked off the field and just kind of enjoyed the feeling."


"Right now my mind is on the people who stole our instruments, and, specifically, the person with my guitar, which will no doubt end its days having Green Day songs worked out on it. A better fate was deserved - and while the reverence given to guitars annoys me, I shall miss it."


"Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head of the column leading to such a civilization, there is certainly no need for us to be at is tail."


"The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives."


"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."


"I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying."


"The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard."


"Well, you have a defence attache here, that's a step forward. Your Defence Minister has been here, our defence people have exchanges with you. So friendly relations at the military level are already in existence."


"People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead."



"We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes."


"People always think that if you eat anything as a model, it's amazing. I used to tease them and say, you know I'm going to throw up afterwards."


"I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts."


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


"Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch."


"How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us."


"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day."
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