People Quotes
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The reason I'm in San Diego is not because I want distance from South Africa but because I want proximity to the people I love. But I don't envy growing up in America. As ugly as aspects of it were, my biggest blessing was to be born a South African.
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I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.
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A lot of people ask how I ended up doing classical music given that I'm in a rock band. The truth is that it's the other way around. I was trained as a classical musician and then started playing in a rock band later.
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The dumb-manager theory of business problems just didn't hold water for me. There had to be a deeper reason why smart people would make decisions that lead to failure.
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A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people.
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I think that what people want from cable news channels is the sense that if there's hard news, it's going to come up immediately.
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It's pretty funny to me when I hear people say, 'I write six songs every day,' or, 'I turn out a song a day.' I bet you that's a whole week of bad songs.
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When I was in London at NBC, I was the lowest man on the totem pole. I would go to diplomatic receptions to meet people.
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American exceptionalism is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they search for simplistic sources of comfort and clarity. And the people that they are now selecting to be, so to speak, the spokespersons of their anxieties are, in most cases, stunningly ignorant.
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I think, in the future, people are going to look back and say, 'I can't believe that gay and lesbian people had to fight to be able to get married.'
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People from the rest of the state tend to hate Phoenix, with that typical resentment of the boroughs and the towns for the big city.
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When people see political ads, they think someone's lying to them.
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If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing.
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What lots of people have been trying to do ever since is find what's beyond the current Standard Model. So far, it has stood impervious to all attacks.
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Sometimes people forget their own greatness.
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I think the greatest reward you get as a writer is finding that people who are reasonably receptive and intelligent have liked your book.
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It's weird how your perspective changes. At the start of your career, you think, 'I just want to do cutting-edge work that makes people think.' Now, I would do a blockbuster in a heartbeat.
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People tend to think that because I need all this time on my own in the studio, that I need time on my own, period. And that's not really true.
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We are here to work side-by-side with this "black" man in trying to bring liberation to all our people!
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People out there with pre-existing conditions, they are worried. Are they going to have the guarantee of coverage if they have a pre-existing condition or if they live in a state where the governor decides that's not a part of the health care, or that the prices are going to go up? That's the worry.
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Good people can't out-think evil, 'cause evil think of things good folks can't think of. Can't enter your head what evil do.
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It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not.
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Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.
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People always assume I don't need to work for money, but my divorce settlement was not as much as it's always reported to be.
