Haim Ginott Quotes
If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.
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When people say hello to me, I feel like maybe I know them from somewhere, because they say, like, 'Hi! How are you?' And I'm like, 'Oh, hi!' And then I realize, 'Oh, no, they just think they know me because they watched me in a movie.' Which is cool, but definitely not a normal thing.
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When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
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Some people really like to get into Twitter, but it's not my thing.
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There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.'
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Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to 'SNL' was his 'Best Of' VHS, and I would watch it over and over again. He was one of the few people on the show to play with the live elements and engage with the audience.
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When you're warm and approachable, you don't have to go up and talk non-stop to someone in a social situation. You just have to be open to the conversations you're already having - and warm and receptive to the people you're meeting.
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There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there's a lot of events that have to happen in order for things to end up the way they are.
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To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
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It is true that some people are interested in the buying part of things... They want to buy everything from the movie reviews to the media net to the opinions and so on.
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It's outrageous that many enlisted people qualify for food stamps because military salaries are so low.
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Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
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I've never been a big fan of making telepathy to the audience. That would be too much a wink in the eye. That would make people around me fools, right?
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Hey, if we didn't overcharge for our product - guess what - people wouldn't have to buy used games.
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When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.
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If people watch 'Broad City' very closely, we just drop lines about people we love, just to say we like them.
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It's really nice to be in something that you really love and want to share with people. And then, for it to actually get shown and for people to be able to see it is awesome. It's really exciting.
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People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon can almost sound like a foreign language.
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Labels, boxes, and politically correct terminology all seem small and irrelevant when being compared to the violent and brutal attacks on the lives of people who are different than what society says we should be.
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A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.
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I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, 'Dang, she looks good for her age!'
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We are seeing the cells of plants and animals more and more clearly as chemical factories, where the various products are manufactured in separate workshops.
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If I have half an hour to spare, I just have to hit the shops. And I can get overexcited.
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They're saying Arnold will get 95% of the vote. At least according to his brother, Jeb Schwarzenegger.
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If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.
