People Quotes
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History has proven that art depicting black people cannot be disentangled from the political implications that such art has on their lives. As Africans were being stripped from the continent and sailed across the Atlantic to the Western world, depictions of black people in Western art changed in order to further render them racialized caricatures.
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It's God's will that millions of people are gonna die this year because of some outmoded economic policies? No, it's not!
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I often wonder why people remake movies. Is there just a lack of imagination out there that they can't come up with an original idea?
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I was an only child for 16 years. I didn't realize it at the time, but that experience definitely turned me into a people pleaser. I always tried to do what was expected of me, and I constantly sought reassurance from the adults around me that I was doing a good job.
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Our Constitution does not profess to have been established simply by the majority, but by 'the people' - the minority as much as the majority.
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People think anything done from a woman's perspective is only going to appeal to women.
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Last, in restaurants you spend a lot of time dealing with people who are very unhappy. Soup has been spilled on their laps, they've waited 10 minutes to get their check so they can leave, and you learn how to listen, I think, in a much more proactive way than government does.
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I've always said from starting off, 'I don't mind if I'm in a big budget film or a huge play or something small in London playing for 50 people, as long as I'm doing what I love doing for a living.'
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I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression, the truth and the good will outweigh the bad.
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A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days.
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Sick people, particularly those with serious conditions, greatly prefer the company of their friends and family to residence in a hospital or nursing home.
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Ways and Means is the committee that tackles the big issues that affects people's lives and their jobs in a major way.
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I’ve seen people where it rules their lives, you know, who want to be thinner or have bigger boobs, and how it wears them down. And I just don’t want that in my life.
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We had so much fun in Ghana and they are really lovely people.
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A lot of people feel that there is less artistry involved in cartoon making unless they have painstaking control of each frame.
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My parents owned a hair salon, so I learned a few tricks there. I can cut people's hair - if they let me.
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Some people can't see miracles when they're right in the middle of them.Better than seeing miracles that don't exist.You're determined to stand entirely alone, aren't you?That's where I've always stood.
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I had a colonic irrigation in this clinic in Santa Monica, because people in Los Angeles cannot do anything for themselves, much less take a shit.
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Once upon a time, gatekeepers were newspaper publishers and magazine editors and people who ran radio stations and news networks. And they decided what went above the fold and what went on page A10.
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People don't just show up in the C-suite overnight.
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'Whoever God is calling to govern must put God first, must know the people, must know what their aspirations are, must know what their needs are and address those needs. In that way they will be blessed, they will rejoice and God too will be honoured.'
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In my movies, I'm not trying to erase any old image of myself, really. And also I'm not trying to imitate anyone or follow in their footsteps, because I know, Burt Reynolds was just one of the people that told me this, I know how you can only last in this business if you got something special to offer, just by being yourself.
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I had never held a baby in my life. I was one of those women - people would say, "Do you want to hold my baby?" and I was like "No ... "
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Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money.
