People Quotes
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You always risk people misunderstanding you when you say anything.
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In the '80s especially, a lot of comedians felt compelled to stick with what made them famous and those people became caricatures.
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How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.
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Being the ideal of a strong woman means utilizing all the things that God gives you. People are always saying to me, 'You're a strong female, so why are you wearing a bikini on the cover of that magazine?' Being a strong woman is misconstrued to be something evil and ugly.
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My goals are to tell meaningful stories through songs and touch people's lives... and hopefully make a living doing it.
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I feel like a spinning top or a DreidelThe spinning don't stop when you leave the cradleYou just slow downRound and around this world you goSpinning through the lives of the people you knowWe all slow down.
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Quite a lot of people wanted me to write about my family, I suppose for fairly obvious reasons, and there was always something that would stop me, I thought they were asking me for the wrong motives.
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A pastor has to be media-savvy if he's going to reach everybody. I don't mean to be ugly and harsh, but to be forthright and candid. And the result is that people that don't like you start listening.
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To be able to work with people who I have respected and admired, to be a part of something like the Cannes Film Festival, is surreal and brilliant.
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They call Howard University the 'capstone of black education.' Howard was one of the historically black colleges where people want to go and send their children. Both of my grandfathers went through the medical school, and being in D.C., not far from New York City, it was a natural choice for me.
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My personal mission has always been to empower people to be creative. But the Holy Grail of a tinkerer is to make something that makes something.
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The deplorable thing is that the people who were tortured yesterday, torture today.
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Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm.
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I'm still conscious of whether people really accept me, but that insecurity makes me stronger.
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I had a really successful 2013, '14, '15. Touring, just doing my thing. Super - I mean, can't complain about nothing. And my road manager got killed. And it ruined everything. Now, I tell people - I don't know if this is a word. But I tell people that that re-sensitized me.
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Everything in high school seems like the most important thing that's ever happened in your life. It's not. You'll get out of high school and you never see those people again. All the people who torment and press you won't make a difference in your life in the long haul.
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If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or villains. People aren't bad people. They all have their justifications.
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I remember all the stages in my career where I almost didn't have enough confidence to try for something, almost didn't have the guts to follow something I was excited about doing, because I didn't know anyone else who'd done it, or other people made me question it.
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I was stuck as a Boomer type in a lot of people's minds.
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I want all of the work that I do to have a social justice footprint attached. I want it to move the needle forward when it comes to the perception of all people, but especially people of color.
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I don't live on other people's terms.
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I don't like to be pigeonholed, and I really like that people never really know what's going on with Metllica.
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I was just always the girl that people would come and talk to about their problems, and I still am.
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People should be blessed in life with friends who are both 'Mirrors and Shadows'! Mirrors don't lie and shadows never leave.
