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People Quotes


"The one appearance that I made for President Kennedy, he, as I understand, had his choice or was asked to make a list of the people he would like to have perform, and I was fortunate enough to be one of them."


"The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really - the important people are the people he photographs."



"I think that the game is the game. I think that expansion is good for the game because it gives more jobs to the people and more ballplayers can play, but I think the game is still the game. The ballplayers, they come into the game with one thing in mind - it's their job."


"This country has always been run by elite, and it's an elitist democracy. And that's not a radical concept. It's elitist democracy. When people talk about democracy, they don't talk - really talk about participatory democracy, until the point that we get us at Election Day."



"Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth."


"I know many beautiful people and their lives are just so terrible. They feel so uncomfortable with themselves. Being comfortable is not about what you look like, but how you feel."



"I like playing flawed characters, people who aren't perfect."


"I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing."


"Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that. I don't shoot that any more."


"Boring people are a reflection of boring people."


"The American people want economic prosperity, high-quality goods and low prices, all of which I support."


"I like working with other people but I'm not a songwriter, I'm a producer."



"It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me."



"People, photographers, people in the press can sometimes be inappropriate."


"There's always going to be comparisons, and that's unavoidable. There are people out there who feel I hit my peak with Magician and have gone downhill since."


"Honestly, being a doctor could make you more close minded than regular people."


"What people don't understand is that it wasn't about Dean or Eddie, it was about whether or not I was in the right place."



"Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people."


"I think being mean to people in high school is healthy. It's sort of like you're in this situation with all these other kids and sometimes you need to get your aggression out. And if you'd had people be mean to you before, it really does build character."


"If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy."


"If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians."


"I know people like spectacle, but I'm interested in moving people."


"When people don't get enough information, they make it up."


"I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had."


"The "what should be" never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no "what should be," there is only what is."


"People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning."


"Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are."



"No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did."


"I didn't know that people compared Bill Hicks and I but certainly I'm flattered if they do. I knew Bill a bit. We had dinner a couple of times and played guitar together once. I really tried to keep my distance from him professionally."


"People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities."


"You don't get on your feet if you don't have to, you know. And these people were on their feet rockin', and that was thrilling for David and I, absolutely."


"There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Saddam Hussein had and used significant weapons of mass destruction on his own people, both the Kurds and the Iranians."
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