People Quotes
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The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.
Freeman Dyson
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I can concede that the government has no knowledge of the people, but I believe the people know less of the government. There are useless officials, evil, if you like, but there are also good ones, and these are not able to accomplish anything because they encounter an inert mass, the population that takes little part in matters that concern them.
Jose Rizal
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People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.
Ed Begley, Jr.
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I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
Harmony Korine
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Almost every year there is one package that goes out, and this year it is yet to be nailed down. There's a bunch of people talking about different things, but there is no definitive hip-hop package out there. We'll know probably in the next four weeks whether a package is going to form or not.
Brent Smith Shinedown
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It irritates me so much the way people talk about soaps because it is far more difficult working on a soap than it is on a big studio film.
Margot Robbie
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People take things so seriously.
Dana Ashbrook
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There was a misconception about me when I started off because I had my hair greased up and I have some vague resemblance to the hillbilly gene pool that Elvis came from. People would say, 'You want to be Elvis' and I would say, 'No'.
Chris Isaak
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It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.
T. S. Eliot
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People love you when they on your mind/A thought is love's currency.
Mac Miller
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When people asked me in a RV park, 'What do you do?' I just said, 'I'm a retired state employee from Maine.'
Angus King
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Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.
Victoria Legrand Beach House
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Animal rights is a part of my everyday life. When you live by example, you create a certain level of awareness. Friends of mine, people I have never discussed vegetarianism with, are adopting vegetarian habits because they see it.
Joaquin Phoenix
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A lot of people tell me now I'm their inspiration. They say, 'I don't play baseball,' and then they mention whatever - engineer, doctor, college student, high school student - but they're hurt because, for some reason, people feel shame about themselves or embarrassed because they are short or skinny or fat or whatever.
Jose Altuve
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A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.
Canelo Alvarez
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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In print, people can do anything to you. Everything you do is picked apart. People love it; they're waiting for you to make a mistake.
Brian May Queen
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I think the '70s was a much healthier period for music because people were more innovative and creative.
Maurice White Earth, Wind & Fire
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
M. Ward
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A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. Blindly planning for it, envisioning things that weren't the case. This was the working of the will. This was what gave the world purpose and direction. Not what was there but what was not.
Jhumpa Lahiri
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I'm very confident. Even when I read people saying horrible stuff about my weight.
Adele
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The Dumnonii, whose city or fortress was at Exeter, were an important people. They occupied the whole of the peninsula from the River Parret to Land's End. East of the Tamar was Dyfnaint, the Deep Vales; west of it Corneu, the horn of Britain.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.
Gary North