People Quotes
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People have criticised me because my security detail is larger than the president's. But you must ask yourself: are there more people who want to kill me than who want to kill the president? I can assure you there are.
Marion Barry
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I grew up with a computer, and many of my friends were people I met online.
Sam Altman
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I apologize for the insensitivity of my remarks with respect to the mayor or his family, however I think it is important to note that this decision involves potential risk to innocent people.
John Shadegg
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The citizens of New Hampshire expect and deserve a government as clean as our mountain streams and as open as our blue skies. Today let us pledge together to make this government - the people's government - clean, open and honest.
John Lynch
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Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation. This is what I try to tell my students: this is one great thing that literature can do - it can make us identify with situations and people far away.
Chinua Achebe
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You see a Party system that crushes down anybody who has different opinions, who has different ideas in their mind. Simply to have different opinions can cost someone their life. They can be put in jail, they can be silenced, and they can disappear. And the other people would take it, not giving support.
Ai Weiwei
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Ultimately, as a director, you try and tell people where to look, but unlike film or television, where you force them to look at something, you can't control it completely.
Jason Moore
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It's easy to get by on a facade of fancy style, but sooner or later, people are going to see through it. I'm trying to be as honest as possible.
Jim Carroll
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Everyone calls me 'the male Jennifer Lawrence,' because I just say things because I'm random, and I do things and I don't care what people think. I think she's hilarious.
Colton Haynes
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I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.
George Carlin
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The premise of my whole campaign has been not that people need to believe what I say to them, but they need to look at what I have done. And what I have done in the state of Nevada, I have voted over a 100 times against tax and fee increases, poor public policy, and unconstitutional bills.
Sharron Angle
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I don't even like firing people. I don't think I've ever said, 'You're fired' to anybody.
Martha Stewart
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People often say I started to become too outspoken after a certain period. It’s all because of the Internet. If we didn’t have this technology I would be same as everybody else. I couldn’t really amplify my voice.
Ai Weiwei
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I like people who can make you laugh without using vulgarity, or bad words.
Michael Jackson
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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
Chanakya
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My father literally fought his entire life to ensure the inclusion of all people because he understood that we were intertwined and connected together in humanity.
Bernice King
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What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.
A. S. Byatt
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[Donald Trump] is in the process of building up an organization. And well, we'll have to see how that works. And it'll be a test, I think, for him and the people that he's designated to be able to execute on his vision.
Barack Obama
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It's a damn shame when people can't take you seriously because girls like you.
Tyson Jay Ritter The All-American Rejects
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Maybe it's just me being lazy but I just don't like describing my music or style or anything, I just like letting people interpret it.
Børns
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The scheme they had on defense for us was something quite a few people up here can play.
Joe Gibbs
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Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.
John Masefield
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It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people.
Jose Saramago