People Quotes
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With all of the people in Cuba who I met - many of them hugely heroic figures - I found learning about their complexity and richness and contradictions just really fascinating, and it was fulfilling to be able to offer a different side to them, to be able to have some kind of unique takeaway from the official narrative.
Brin-Jonathan Butler
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I love presentations more than fashion shows. I love speaking to people and walking them through the collection.
Christian Cota
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Psychology is a big part of sport that some people do not realise. But it is a skill you have to practice.
Jade Jones
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I don't want to name names because they'd be mad at me if I did, but people who are significant novelists can't get published by real publishers at this point, or have to go through two years of trying after writing a novel that's taken them five or six years and simply can't get the thing in print. Or it gets in print and it doesn't get reviewed in the New York Times Book Review and disappears without a trace. I mean, it's terrifying. I don't know how anybody can stand it. It's such an enormous amount of work and the economics of it are really quite brutal.
Tony Kushner
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Many thought that the abolition of slavery, the end of Jim Crow, and the legislative progress of the Civil Rights Era, among other watershed moments, would have fundamentally done away with the racist structures that have long oppressed black people. However, we know that has been far from the case.
Opal Tometi
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As a leader, you have to have a vision that inspires people around you.
Jennifer Hyman
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I don't eat or wear animals, but I never tell people not to - that's just my view.
Loretta Swit
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People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.
Natan Sharansky
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My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.
Oprah Winfrey
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People often focus on the downsides of population growth but neglect the upsides. These upsides may even outweigh the downsides, making a larger population a good thing overall.
Ian Goldin
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What Google did in Web 1.0 was take a feature, which was search, and built an entire business around that utility. In Web 2.0, Twitter took a feature, which is sharing, and built a utility that allowed people to do that on a massive scale.
Peter Fenton
Siouxsie and the Banshees
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Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.
Charlie Byrd
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A lot of people say, 'AC/DC - that's the band with the little guy who runs around in school shorts!'
Angus McKinnon Young
AC/DC
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Pop culture and entertainment can be dismissed as surface, but it's not. It's the language we all speak, and it's the connection point between people all over the world.
Bozoma Saint John
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I don't deny that I had a very privileged upbringing, but my parents and that town maintained a sense of normalcy that I think many people find hard to achieve, and I am so grateful for that.
Dylan Penn
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History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real stuff.
Auberon Waugh
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People are always so surprised when they meet me. Firstly, that I'm 'so tiny', and secondly that I'm 'so sweet'. They seem surprised that they're not scared of me.
Pink
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What you're thinking, what you're saying, what you're doing, is having an impact on you and the people around you.
Oprah Winfrey
