People Quotes
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In sociology, they call it 'code switching.' I can feel just as comfortable in a room full of people who don't look like me because I understand the social cues of class and race.
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When I graduated from college in early 2010, I decided that I needed to create a calling card, some kind of business card that people can link to my name and face. So I did this 'Mad Men Theme Song... With a Twist' music video. I released it just as I moved to L.A.
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One of our objectives today is very important for many people, for millions of people on our planet - it is joining efforts in the fight against terrorism and other similar challenges: countering drug trafficking and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, fighting famine, preserving environment and biodiversity, taking efforts to make the world more predictable, more stable.
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I've only been making records since 1991. When you look at the long-standing careers of people like Joni, it's not very long!
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Successful people form the habit of doing what failures don't like to do. They like the results they get by doing what they don't necessarily enjoy.
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What you get at the BMI Workshop is the rarest commodity in New York City: Friendly criticism; people who genuinely root for you; and a chance to rewrite your work, try it again, and hone your craft.
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Your father always suspected that being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy and vain—Maddy glanced at Tally—and selfish. It only takes a twist to lock in that part of their personalities. He always thought that some people could think their way out of it.
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We –finally-look upon change, the every-unfolding future, with confidence rather than doubt, hope rather than fear. We, as a people, were born of revolution. And we have lived by change-always a frontier people, exploring-if not new wilderness-then new science and new knowledge.
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A lot of people don't give their audiences credit. You can leave it a little mysterious. They can think about it.
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People always complain that movies are all the same and that ticket buyers are voting and saying, 'No more,'
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I guess I've always been attracted to people who stand out as individuals - people who are adventurous and take chances.
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People say that being kicked out of Metallica is what drove me to be better and faster in Megadeth, but i was faster and better than Metallica when i was in Metallica.
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I've spent my whole life with people underestimating me.
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The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build.
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Michael Jordan brings millions of dollars when he shows up in an arena. Since money is how we judge people, he's very valuable. But while that's happening, Rome is burning within the black community.
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Some people only dream about touring around the world with their friends and that's exactly what we're doing, and we could never take that for granted.
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There was a lot of pressure on me when I was 18, 19 to move to America. I went out for a couple of weeks and hated it. I thought I could go out my mind. You could really see how people could go off the rails.
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The American people do not have the information upon which they can hold the administration and responsible agencies accountable. I call that a coverup.
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The better portion of all sales I have made were made after people had said 'no'.
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If people want to get into leadership through corrupt practices, through corrupt means, I think that's detestable; we have to take action.
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Danish is a different language, even though Danish people understand Swedes, and very few Swedes understand Danish.
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There are lots of people in my life I just don't get the chance to see as much as I would like.
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I made it real clear to the business community - if your plan for innovation is to trick people, is to fool them, is not to tell them the truth about the price, then you're right: I'm going to be right in the way.
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Sending people into space is very important culturally. That's really the justification. You cannot rationally justify it on the basis of the science and technology we get out of it.
