People Quotes
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The economics establishment (universities, regulators, central bankers, government officials, various organisations staffed with economists) lost its legitimacy with the failure of the system. It is irresponsible and foolish to put our trust in the ability of such experts to get us out of this mess. Instead, find the smart people whose hands are clean.
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The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from, and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult, ethical controversies of the day. First things first. And planting the ideas of virtue, of good traits in the young, comes first. In the moral life, as in life itself, we take one step at a time. Every field has its complexities and controversies. And so does ethics. And every field has its basics. So too with values.
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I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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After Gmail, if you have AOL, people are like, 'Are you still with this?' What does it matter what e-mail you have?
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I love people and entertaining. The fact I can still do it, and it's with my wife is phenomenal. I wanna reach 95 years!
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In terms of fitting in, you know, I don't have a lot of armor up. I'm a raw nerve and it's really uncomfortable for a lot of people.
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I used to work with mentally disabled people when I was 18 or 19, changing diapers and catheters. I was working, like, 16 hour night shifts, having to distribute meds and go capture people who would break out of the house. Sometimes they'd have seizures, and we'd have to rush them to the hospital. That was an interesting time, very humbling.
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I do wash my hands in innocency, before God and the face of you, good Christian people this day.
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When we are polite to children, we show in the most simple and direct way possible that we value them as people and care about their feelings.
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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
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We've got to keep an eye on the battle that we face - a war on workers. And you see it everywhere. It is the Tea Party. And there's only one way to beat and win that war - the one thing about working people is, we like a good fight.
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There are good people in the lobbying industry. Lobbyists can serve a very useful purpose.
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The biggest single thing that has lifted people out of poverty is free trade.
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Seattle sucks. New York and Chicago are real cities. Seattle is Dubuque, Iowa, putting on airs. People here think Seattle is Paris... it ain't. I've been to Paris, and this place isn't Paris.
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But if people will laugh at my work and keep a sound roof over my head, who am I to complain?
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I'm flattered anytime someone has taken enough time to listen to me and make a connection to someone else, honestly. I feel very lucky that a lot of my influences are the ones that people will tweet to me that I remind them of.
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I'm happy, so I just want to project that happiness through my music to make other people happy.
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I give big ups to people who are very big on social media, whether they're doing vlogs or whatever. It takes a lot of effort.
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Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.
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There needs to be more film directors of colour. They bandy about the word 'diversity' a lot, but when I say 'of colour,' I mean Asian, black - I mean people of all colour. We need to have those voices given the opportunity, not told that their films will not be distributed or will not sell well abroad.
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Children whose parents return to study do much better at school. Offenders who persist with studies are much less likely to reoffend. The national mental health strategy recognises the important role adult learning can play for people recovering from mental illness.
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People pump gas and then they go in the store and pick up some things and pay for them, and they forget to mention the gas.
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The factor that makes people extremely vulnerable to enslavement is the lack of the rule of law.
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Something can happen in your life, and you might want and need something different from your spouse. Most people forget that you have to create relationships. The allure of the first years settles down, and at that moment, you better start creating it; otherwise, you're going to lose out.
