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People Quotes


"Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted."


"Once people see this 'Unplugged,' I just want them to feel the spontaneity, to feel passionate... I want you to see another side of me, that's free, and feel where my head is, where whatever happens, happens. I want you to feel inspired."


"People are really sick of seeing the winner not win and what the public thinks should happen."


"People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly."


"Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important to look as if you were listening to what people were saying. Actually, listening to what people are saying, to me, interferes with looking as if you were listening to what people are saying."



"I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth."


"Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people."


"People go to see a film because it's a great story and it's visually exciting to watch."


"I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy."



"The Craft was what it was. People who respond to that movie respond to it really strongly."



"I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am much more like the typical non-technical harried user than I am like the people who smoothly operate everything."


"I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."



"People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors."


"And I always tried to be not a star. To be someone who people like to talk to."


"I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting."


"We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty."


"MRSA, which is a kind of super bug mutant, is killing 10,000 people a year in Britain."


"Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory."



"I think that, you know, when we start talking about the Tea Party, people want to marginalize that into some kind of organization or party, but it really isn't."



"There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all."


"What the Dalai Lama had to resolve was whether to stay in Tibet or leave. He wanted to stay, but staying would have meant the total destruction of Tibet, because he would have died and that would have ripped the heart out of his people."


"On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach."


"People who think too much before they act don't act too much."


"The one thing I seek above all else is understanding. Sometimes I'm so frustrated and I don't get it. But I'm lucky to have a good management team and people around me who explain things and answer my questions."


"We've probably gotten 500 calls from people saying what the heck is going on with gas, and I gotta say I agree with you. What the heck is going on with gas?"



"I never speak ill of dead people or live judges."


"World Affairs Councils are great organizations. They help keep people throughout our country alive to important developments in world affairs and underscore that, in the country, we stay engaged and we are part of the world."


"When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed."


"I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious."


"Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us."


"I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated."
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