People Quotes
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People are used to music that justifies street culture but something that's not touched on is why these kids act the way they act, live the way they live.
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Most people like the sad songs. Some of the oldest songs known to man are sad. Listening to a voice singing something sad is a really great way to help you to feel sad when you need to.
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The question I am most often asked is how do I find my ideas? The answer is I don't. Ideas find me. A character in history will suddenly step right out of the past and demand a book. Generally, people don't bother to speak to me unless there's a good chance that I'll take them on.
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In theory, at least, all presidents are servants of the people who elected them. In the case of Barack Obama, it has seemed from the start that the idea as applied to him was more than mere metaphor. He is the first president in my lifetime whom the country felt obligated to remind that he know his place.
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The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a measure of decency; it makes sound economic sense.
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It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.
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When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.
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I'm being compared to the impossible. I never saw Mays, Aaron or Clemente play. What about the people I face every day? Tim Raines is the best? Mattingly is the best? Why not compare me to my peers?
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I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.
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To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.
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An effective U.S. policy toward Sudan - one capable of changing the situation in the south and affecting the lives of its people - will require top-level attention and a great deal of energy. It should have three elements: aid, diplomacy, and financial disclosure.
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Many people with physical disabilities have romantic lives and good marriages to partners who see past their disabilities and recognize all of the things they can do.
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Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don't.
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If there's one thing above all that sets me apart from Tony Blair, its this: Im not embarrassed to articulate the instincts of the British people.
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If Americans are worried about money in politics, there is no larger concern than the Clintons, who are cosseted in a world where rich people endlessly scratch the backs of rich people.
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Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine.
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The master never let a statement about God go unchallenged. All God statements were poetic or symbolic expressions of the Unknowable; people, however, foolishly took them as literal descriptions of the divine.
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I would like to do things like I did in Tanzania, going somewhere and exploring a theme and investigating as well as performing for those people.
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I lay down as a proposition that most of the people who work hard for a living in the country belong to the Liberal Party. I would say, and I think, without offence, that most of the people who never worked for a living at all belong to the Tory Party.
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I come from hardworking, determined people on both sides of my family... the kind who live with a hard reality from which much strength comes.
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Some people are afraid of change and [feel] that getting older is a bad thing, but I really love maturing and gaining wisdom, and the experience of being pregnant and having a child and seeing what a woman's body can do is amazing.
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White people in this country are tweaked. We are raised to believe a myth of White superiority. Malcolm X, in The Autobiography of Malcolm X, said that White people's "belief that they are 'superior' in some way is so deeply rooted that these things are in the national White subconscious.
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You can make movies and not particularly get along with the people you're working with but, when they say 'Action,' your job is to make it look like you're in love.
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Your morning sets up the success of your day. So many people wake up and immediately check text messages, emails, and social media. I use my first hour awake for my morning routine of breakfast and meditation to prepare myself.
