People Quotes
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We can't deter people fleeing for their lives. They will come. The choice we have is how well we manage their arrival, and how humanely.
Antonio Guterres
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I was fortunate that I was at newspapers for eight years, where I wrote at least five or six stories every week. You get used to interviewing lots of different people about a lot of different things. And they aren't things you know about until you do the story.
Chuck Klosterman
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We are often unaware of how much we love the people around us. This is true for everyone. We may think that we love certain people, but we don't know how profoundly we love them.
Akhil Sharma
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Know, then, that now, precisely now, these people are more certain than ever before that they are completely free, and at the same time they themselves have brought us their freedom and obediently laid it at our feet. It is our doing, but is it what you wanted? This sort of freedom?' Again I don't understand', Alyosha interrupted, 'Is he being ironic? Is he laughing?' Not in the least. He precisely lays it to his and his colleagues' credit that they have finally overcome freedom, and have done so in order to make people happy.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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If you want to have a big impact, government is the way to do it. Just think of the number of people you can touch.
Gina Raimondo
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There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.
Isabelle Adjani
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So many comedians, if you asked them, 'What's your priority in standup?' it's probably gonna be to make people laugh or to entertain them. That is just way down on my priority list, if on my list at all. I'm into breaking records. If I can do a set and break a record and get no laughs, I'm happy.
Matt Besser
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There are two kinds of people in the world: the kind who alphabetize their record collections, and the kind who don't.
Sarah Vowell
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People have always been fascinated by the foibles of the wealthy and privileged.
Kevin Kwan
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It's great we have a female Thor. It's great we have a black Captain America. But those are just optics; it's optics of change... Unless you have the structural diversity, the structural change behind the scenes - more women, more people of color actually calling the shots and editing these books - those optics won't last.
Marjorie Liu
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How irritating it must be for people, to be bombarded with me!
Daniel Radcliffe
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No, what was sad in his case was that he, who didn’t care for carved oak, should have his drawing-room panelled with it, while people who do care for it have to pay enormous prices to get it. It seems to be the rule of this world. Each person has what he doesn’t want, and other people have what he does want.
Jerome K. Jerome
