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People Quotes


"Last month, the Iraqi people went to the polls, voting in their first free election in more than 50 years."



"I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires."


"People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants."


"I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine."


"You couldn't pay me enough to be a law enforcement officer. Their job is a tough job. You have to solve people's problems, you have to baby-sit people, you have to always be doing this cat-and-mouse game with the bad guys. My respect for them is immense."


"People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. So that's what I've tried to do."


"So I sat down with him and portrayed more the side of the character he needed to see. Which is what I do when I go in for an interview for a part I like. As much as you think you're dealing with creative people, they see you for what your image is out there."


"To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good."


"When I left the band I said Look, I am ready to move on. I was interested in playing with some of the other people that I had bee a studio musician with."



"We both came from families in which parents got married, had children and the whole thing. So we were not the kind of people to live together permanently."


"Everytime we put a record out, we lose people that can't deal with the growth."


"We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays."


"I have always believed governments must adapt to the needs of the people, not the other way around."


"The American people have been denied important information for their own protection."


"The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people."


"Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if you called Denzel Washington the wrong name."


"As soon as I gave birth, it was as if you understand them. They become people, not kids. You start to identify with them. You see yourself in them."


"They know, the courts know, the people know that they have no way of changing the results as it affects them."


"If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice."



"I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality."


"It's weird, It's really weird to be called a breakout star. And some people are referring to my show as the new 'Friends', which I can't really even wrap my head around."



"I'm not sure blogs are necessarily the best place to get a pulse on anything. People want to blog for a variety of reasons, and that may or may not be representative."



"I have drawn a very close bond to all the military people."



"There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize."


"When I was with Ellen, I was telling people, If you come out, it's gonna be better for you. But I honestly don't know that."


"I must begin by saying something about the old Germany. That Germany, too, suffered from superficial judgment, because appearances and reality were not always kept apart in people's minds."


"What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before."



"The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable, and they are frightened of things they don't understand."


"A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don't know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population."
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