People Quotes
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There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.
Charles E. Wilson
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In actuality, Muppets was a word we just coined. It was merely to be the name of our act. ... I used to say to people that it was a combination of 'marionettes' and 'puppets.' ... But then I stopped telling this lie, and I'm back to the truth: It just came out of midair.
Jim Henson
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Every time we launch a feature, people yell at us.
Angelo Sotira
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People thought I was this doll that came to life, so I would have different people just treating me very strangely as far as I was concerned. They wanted to see if I was real.
Emmanuel Lewis
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Going back and forth between wanting to be respected artistically and wanting to move people is its own challenge.
Brian Joseph Burton Broken Bells
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It's the lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself. He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
Muhammad Ali
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I could not remove myself from this debate about Trump. I could not abide his indecency. I could not live with the way he treated other people.
Maxine Waters
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Some people have much more pull than other people. But when I say that the public has ultimate responsibility, I'm not saying it in a moral sense. I'm just saying it in the sense of what is it that's really going to bring change.
Jared Diamond
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One of the perks of being a 'New Yorker' cartoonist is that you get to hang around with interesting people. My fellow cartoonists are all interesting, and all highly creative.
Liza Donnelly
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There’re limits to what civilized people can bring out into the open, no matter how savagely they can speculat
Algis Budrys
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Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.
Frank Ocean
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If you are willing to reflect on the courage and moderation of other people, you will find them strange.
Plato
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My belief is that no movie, nothing in life, leaves people neutral. You either leave them up or you leave them down.
David Puttnam
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Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to.
Alexis Bledel
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I couldn't be happier teaming up to make the feature with a company as innovative as VICE. There is so much the world doesn't know about piracy in Somalia and the people involved, and I'm excited to be telling a story of piracy in Somalia from a different perspective.
Cutter Hodierne
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Just having what's important, to have people around you to support and take care of you. That's the most important thing when you are a professional athlete.
Angelique Kerber
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Jehovah was the tribal god of Israel. Fortunately he was stronger and more terrible than the gods of the neighboring tribes, so that he was able to drive them out and give their land to his own people, but he was not fundamentally different from them and they were believed to be quite as real as Jehovah.
Walter Rauschenbusch
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A lot of people are scared to come visit my hometown, but to me, violence is everywhere, man.
Jeremih Felton
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People ask me, 'What happened in your life that might have pushed you as an artist to get to where you are today?' I always felt a little on the outside. And as such, you're always observing things. So, I'd be kind of re-creating these things in my mind, and I think drawing it was a way to deal with that.
Jim Lee
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People love to watch a train wreck, I suppose.
Ellen Pompeo
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Many people agree with me that many things are not clear in football these days and it is not something people who watch football deserve. The situation will be the same while football is run by people who do not understand football.
Diego Maradona
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I've studied a lot of great people over the years - Pete Seeger, James Brown - and tried to incorporate elements that I've admired, though I can't say I dance like James.
John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
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I'd like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don't have misconceptions - they understand. I believe that.
Angelina Jolie
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The small family farm is dying; people's lives are being dislocated.
Bobbie Ann Mason