People Quotes
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As a kid, I really wanted to have my own show. But when you grow up in poverty, people tell you nothing is possible. So I kind of gave up on that dream.
Cristela Alonzo
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When I started 'This American Life', one of the reactions I got was, 'When is the adult going to show up who will host the show?' At some point, people just got used to it.
Ira Glass
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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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If you can create an environment where people are invited to do their best work and the best ideas always win, then the project itself will win.
Jennifer Carpenter
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I think when people are jumping on top of each other's ideas, it elevates it a lot more than me going into the studio and working on something all by myself for a while.
Mark Hoppus
Blink-182
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I hope that when people see Asian women, they realize we are all different. A lot of time with Caucasian people, they just group us together as Asian. But even with different cities in China, people have different personalities... We look Asian, but we still look different. We don't look the same.
Liu Wen
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I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people.
Dean Kamen
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Every artist in the world likes his or her work to make people think.
Christo
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"We've had problems in the past where we've signed to a company where shortly after we got signed to them, the people who signed us immediately left or got sacked, or whatever, then they bring in new people who don't really give a shit about you. Whereas we're with Sony now, we've got people who really believe in us and who are really behind us--and it makes a big difference!
Steve Harris
Iron Maiden
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I can destroy a dance floor. I think life should be a musical. I always hate it when people watch a musical and they go, 'Oh, it's so unrealistic, no one just breaks into song in the middle of their day.' Yeah, they do- if they're me.
Zachary Levi
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Good musicals, a strange world, seem so easy. People say, 'Ohhh, it's magic.' Nothing's magic. A thing doesn't jell. Adapt. Change the rhythm. Shorten the scene. Rewrite the character. Maneuver the waters. Seeming easy is why so many shows aren't good.
James Lapine
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We were below welfare. We begged from people on welfare. My father tried to repair our shoes with pieces of bicycle tires.
Frank McCourt
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You're just poor cornball provincial people, you critics; you just don't know what the hell you're talking about.
George Cukor
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One of the great things about moving to Silicon Valley is that you're surrounded by all these people who've done it before. This place is an assembly line that takes a couple of twenty-somethings and walks you through everything you need to learn.
Drew Houston
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I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.
George Mason
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New mobile-payment-based models are, in some ways, more secure. Because in a model like Circle's, for example, we never transmit your personal information or your financial credentials to the people you're paying.
Jeremy Allaire
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People seem to think that if you didn't do the same things you did 25 years ago, then, you know, then things have changed. But we're not doing anything really any different. You know, we go out, we have a good time. Everybody has always had relationships all around the road.
Vince Neil
Mötley Crüe
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I think people expect mud at festivals, I think you'd be asking for your money back if you didn't get it.
Peter Hook
New Order
