People Quotes
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President Obama has a strong record of doing what is best for America and Florida, and he built it by spending more time worrying about what his decisions would mean for the people than for his political fortunes.
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Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
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When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
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Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
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I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.
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For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
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You can say, 'I am a poet, rock-climbing shaman, and my name is Hiawatha Moonbeam,' and people in America will say, 'Hey, that's great. All power to you, man'.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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I have been fighting climate change for two decades, and people often ask me how I remain hopeful in the face of extreme weather and grim forecasts. The answer is simple: I see countless solutions spreading across the nation and across the world. But we need more investment.
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The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.
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A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.
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I never want to confuse people or go over their heads.
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If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.
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I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begrudge giving. In New York, it's like that.
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Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
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That's the thing about awards - it's for the people who do all the hard work behind the scenes. An award is just a clap at them.
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My parents landed in Calgary in December 1974, straight from Nairobi. They were immigrants, like many people coming to build a better life. My mom was five months pregnant with me when they landed.
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I work with people like Spielberg and Abrams all the time.
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I know how to fake someone out, if they break into my house, into thinking there are other people there.
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I think that you can love people without it being the great love.
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Obviously when you're making music, you want it to get out to as many people as possible. You want to reach as many people as you can.
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
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We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just people, and it's all terrible, and there's no meaning to anything.
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People are always setting conditions for happiness... I love life without condition.
