People Quotes
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The Mormon issue is a real problem in the South; it's a real problem in other parts of the country. But people are not going to say it. People are not going to step out and say, 'I have a problem with Romney because he's Mormon.' What they're going to say is he's a flip-flopper... It's a fact; it's reality.
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Human beings are social creatures. We are social not just in the trivial sense that we like company, and not just in the obvious sense that we each depend on others. We are social in a more elemental way: simply to exist as a normal human being requires interaction with other people.
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People in misery is what most important in art.
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I was always at heart a novelist and wanted to tell a bigger story, so I wanted to create people who told other kinds of truths than literal truths.
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The thing about rock is that people are not just interested in bands because of where they want to go. It's where they want to escape from that matters.
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My people are American, my time is today…music must repeat the thought and aspirations of the times.
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My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.
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I'm on the list that I thought I'd never be on. I'm not sitting here thinking, 'God, I might get this part' or 'is it too late for me to play Hamlet?' It's really about: who do I get to work with? There's so many people on that list.
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What an extraordinary achievement. What a vindication of the belief that ordinary people can do extraordinary things. What a reminder of what Bobby Kennedy once said about how small actions can be like pebbles being thrown into a still lake, and ripples of hope cascade outwards and change the world.
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Stand back, leave me alone, submerged people,Go away. I haven't dispossessed anyone,Haven't usurped anyone's bread.No one died in my place. No one.Go back into your mist.It's not my fault if I live and breathe,Eat, drink, sleep and put on clothes.
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When people see my makeup, they think all types of crazy things that I'm doing to my skin, but it's makeup. It's the weirdest thing. They'll see contouring and think you had surgery on your nose. No. No. No. Look at 'RuPaul's Drag Race' and you'll see... you can make your nose look... what ever shape you want it.
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There are certain people who react well in life-threatening situations, and our military and our law enforcement and our first responders tend to be those types of folks.
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I think it's so important as an artist to stand up for what you believe in, and I think that if equal rights is something that you really believe in, and you have a voice that people listen to, and you need to share that - I think that's really important.
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For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.
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People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same. We've obviously made some changes. When we started, it was all about food, clothing and shelter. Now we watch 'Top Chef', 'Project Runway', and 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.'
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Normal people don't just wake up in the morning and say I think it'd be a good idea to run for president of the United States.
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A lot of people who were the best in their fields. I was fortunate enough to be friends with Sammy Davis, Jr. - I spent a lot of time with Sammy. I was over at his house almost every night. Those people were very special and very special for me.
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My grandmother knew J.F.K. and L.B.J. That was her world. I enjoy meeting interesting people. But that's not my world.
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I want to make sure that, not only in the Republican Party but in the body politic as a whole, people are aware of threats that remain to the United States.
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My company is known for being funny as well as moving. You get a bit of everything in these shows. I think people know they're going to have a surprising experience.
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In our lives, Michelle and I have been strengthened by our Christian faith. But there have been times where my faith has been questioned – by people who don't know me – or they've said that I adhere to a different religion, as if that were somehow a bad thing.
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It's just what I'm born to do, I'm born to entertain people. I could do it for thirty-thousand people or three people, it's just what I know how to do. My soul objective only is for me to have the audience say 'when's the next time I can see him?' That's what I do.
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I have to say, I haven't really worked with that many people in my career that I haven't liked, which I think is really rare.
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I just wanted to do something that would freak people out. That's the best thing to do.
