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People Quotes
"Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult."
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"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds."
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"It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep."
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"So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids."
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"Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy."
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"When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people."
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"I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me."
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"By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed."
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"People have a preconceived notion about who I am and it's interesting. It's like picking who you want to win for the Oscars and not seeing the movie."
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"Cambridge is thriving and Britain is working. We have been telling people - 'if you value it, vote for it' - and this is particularly relevant in Cambridge."
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"When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless."
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"I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate."
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"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."
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"I tried to do the commercial thing. But I don't want to keep shoving Twinkies down everyone's throat. People are hungry for something of more substance."
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"I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will."
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"Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel."
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"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."
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"I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line."
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"We're half the people; we should be half the Congress."
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"Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom."
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"I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways."
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"Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right now. And what the American people like is to think the underdog still has a chance."
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"You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours."
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"People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people."
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"People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me."
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"The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert."
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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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"In the housing projects, people talked of ways to reduce crime, relieve overcrowding, and they were good ideas that we plan to study, and possibly implement."
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"People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch."
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"I don't like being a voyeur, looking into other people's marriages."
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"There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on."
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"People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I don't think that's limited to Haiti."
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"One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing."
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"The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens."
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"The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way."
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"I was instructed by people in higher rank to stand there and hold this leash and look at the camera. We were doing what we were told."
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"And that's very important, too, 'cause a lot of people just assume everyone's a Democrat, or everyone's a Republican or whatever, and they're not. And that's a really important thing to adhere to."
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"Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours."
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"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."
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"There are 38,000 people dying of hunger each day and most are children. And, being a celebrity, I communicate about it as much as I can."
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