People Quotes
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I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don't know.
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Jesus did not get stuck in intellectual arguments with people. He did not go for the intellect; He went for the conscience. He spoke to that part of the person that knows the difference between right and wrong instinctively.
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I think there's a notion in our society, and it may be valid, that people aren't as funny when they get older. It's a stigma still attached to the rebelliousness of youth.
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Lynyrd Skynyrd has always been about writing songs and talking to people through them. That's what we do, and that's what we'll keep doing for as long as we can.
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Too many people take New York for granted. The primary reason is that history is not taught. That's outrageous in a city where the past is still visible.
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I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural.
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Most people who are really, enduringly interested in something eventually find that it's important, too - and important to other people. Very few people can keep going their whole life doing something and feel like it's merely personally fascinating.
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I felt pissed off because I realized that you have to teach people in a clichéd way how to be happy-and happiness has become too one thing in American media. Achieving happiness is not really about having a flat stomach and the best car.
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I've had my fair share of colds, which last longer than they should and can cause wheezing, so I avoid people who are sneezing like the plague and am scrupulous about hygiene and hand-washing.
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You can't just throw money at people. That's not only disturbing but it goes away from the blueprint.
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Even white people are tired of watching white people's shows.
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What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.
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When you go to a college for acting, at least the college I went to, it's like everybody just singing and dancing and acting, and they all come together, and everyone's talking about head shots... It just turned me off. I was like, 'What is this? I don't understand this. People are singing in the hallways.'
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I remind young people everywhere I go, one of the worst things the older generation did was to tell them for twenty-five years 'Be successful, be successful, be successful' as opposed to 'Be great, be great, be great'. There's a qualitative difference.
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Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English.
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I started out by viewing the marketplace as a cruel place, where you need intervention by government and lawyers to protect people. But after watching the regulators work, I have come to believe that markets are magical and the best protectors of the consumer. It is my job to explain the beauties of the free market.
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China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals.
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We have to continue to do the work, because we can't see people lose their lives over senseless gun violence.
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Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.
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I've never concerned myself with the labels people want to put on you. What matters to me is my own estimation.
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I don't think most people understand where we're headed.
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It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.
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Of course, with the people you really know, no one changes that much.
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It's important to have the right agent - people that are working hard for you. But an actor needs to be in control of their career no matter how good the representation is.
