People Quotes
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I've said numerous times that I play to have a stage that people will listen to, and I pray to God that I do right by my influence.
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I think it's really different for me whether I'm touring as part of a larger group or if I'm touring on my own. It's a completely different experience, because when I tour on my own, it's really just me by myself, and I make nice relationships with people.
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It has always been cited as an irrepressible symptom of America's vitality that her people, in fair times and foul, believe in themselves and their institutions.
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Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people's minds. I'm talking about your language.
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Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
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People say free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it's the lowering of trade barriers that causes the dislocation.
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I'm double-jointed. I can put my legs over my head, which freaks people out.
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It bothers me that people who should know better believe a glossy magazine fantasy.
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As we go through this transition where a lot more people will be reading on devices, nobody is paying enough attention to make sure it's a smooth transition. I believe we still need places where people can go to handle, hold and talk about books, get information about what books are out there, and so on.
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I like to write sad songs. They're much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them. But people don't want to hear them as much. And radio definitely doesn't; they want that positive, uptempo thing.
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At work people are expected to be at the beck and call of employers all the time. You have blackberries and other things, and they just don't leave you alone. People have less time just to drop into an art gallery.
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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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You don't have to be brought up in a grand house to have a sense of the past, and I truly believe that there are certain people to whom or through whom the territory - the place, the past - speaks.
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Human nature stays the same, the one thing that stays constant, like death and taxes. And people still want good stories!
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I like to surround myself with people that have dreams and that fight for them every day.
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It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda.
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I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.
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I like shocking people just because, like, I can wear a dress, too. Not even for people to go, 'Oh she's grown up,' but to show people that I'm actually a girl.
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When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.
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I don't listen to a lot of music any more and even the people I've loved for years - the Nick Drakes of this world - I can't go back to them and listen to them over and over.
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When I lose my larger sense of supporting people to be their best, I lessen my contact with the God inside me.
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When I started picking out music for myself, I was a hip-hop kid. DMX, The Roots, Outkast, people like that.
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Publishers send me a lot of first novels because my first novel was the defining novel of my career, and I guess a lot of people want my benediction or something.
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The problem is that too often the only people who can act don’t want change. Power doesn’t so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism.
