People Quotes
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We're picking on people we can beat.
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My father was incredible: a longshoreman; my mother was a secretary. Very 'go to work' people. That's how I saw things.
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Very, very few people actually have long stretches of uninterrupted time at an office.
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Always run after opportunities to create peace between people, to find ways to bridge differences, please. Because as long as one person continues to feel separation… …we'll all still feel it. Close the space between you and someone today. Seeing their essential goodness helps a lot.
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When you're a musician, a lot of time people help you out; they take pity on you. Family members will kind of come around and are like, 'Listen, I bought you a bunch of groceries because I know that you're a screwup.'
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People have the mindset that we have to claim this land from Mother Nature.
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Indigenous people believe that Man belongs to the World; civilized people believe that the World belongs to Man.
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I have watched as a people and as a country and a culture over the course of my teenage-into-adulthood life, and I do still think there is a tremendous amount of homophobia that exists.
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I've grown up on Bob Dylan and all that, but there was a certain standard set up by people before 1955.
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We cannot simply look to austerity as a strategy and it is incredibly important that the Greek people see improvements in their daily lives so that they can carry with them the hope that their lives will get better.
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According to their nature, there are both people who have quick intelligence, and those who must withdraw and take time to think things over.
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Stupid people do make me lose my temper and most people are stupid, fortunately for me. It's made it easier for me to make a living.
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People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.
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I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.
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At present, the most effective way of preventing war would be for statesmen to direct politics so as to support a sound nationalism. This leads to concordance between people of kindred race and languages, whereas the conquest and coercion of people of different race and language inevitably lead to new wars.
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I didn't go through the routine of singing in small clubs and doing open mics and working so hard the way a lot of people do and did. It was just an overnight kind of thing.
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The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.
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I thought if I wanted people to take me seriously, I needed to act serious and not reveal too much of my private life so people could seriously accept me in different things.
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My blues are so simple, but so few people can play it right
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People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.
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I've seen an increasing willingness to hire Canadians for lead roles that shoot up here. When I started, they would always just fly in L.A. people to do the lead roles.
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I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances.
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As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about you and what you feel for my music. If I can make you feel like the way that people who influenced me made me feel, that's completion.
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I love when people laugh. I love when they cry, I like a story to say something, and I hope the audience feels happier leaving the theatre than when it came in.
