People Quotes
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I have this theory that there are two kinds of people in the world, people who stop at a traffic accident and those that just drive by. If I see a traffic accident, I am going to stop. I do notice. I don't think that makes me a good or bad person, or anybody else better or worse.
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I didn't know there was so many people in this world that knew of me.
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I feel happy about the songs I've written. I'm a great lover of the craft of songwriting, and I sure admire it in other people when I see it – past and present. I feel comfortable with what I have accomplished. I feel happy to be able to work in that environment, and that I have a lot of songs left to be written, somewhere.
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So people ought to be free to leave here, but there ought to be opportunity for them to come home.
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It is very important that our young people have constructive early work experiences. But it is equally important that their jobs are safe and complement their education, rather than complete it.
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Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.
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I would never call people that are born in America who are from Mexico terror babies.
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George Jones was my all time favorite singer and one of my favorite people in the world.
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How I hate the attitude of ordinary people to life. How I loathe ordinariness! How from my soul I abhor nice simple people, with their eternal price list. It makes my blood boil.
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Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.
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Many people think it's in bad taste to advertise for an insane asylum... but come on down. We're going crazy.
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In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.
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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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People may excite in themselves a glow of compassion, not by toasting their feet at the fire, and saying: "Lord, teach me compassion," but by going and seeking an object that requires compassion.
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The horrible thing about being me is that I have a very good eye about what people look like. Even me.
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A lot of Christians look at Hollywood as the ultimate evil. But what it did for me is it sharpened my ability to love people and appreciate people, no matter where they're at in their lives.
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If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you.
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We live in a nation where corporations are people.
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As far as Deep Purple goes, I mean, they're iconic. Their contribution is unquantifiable, and as far as the politics involved in things like awards, you know, I don't think anything, because I know what they mean to me, and I know what they mean to the people who like them. Awards are very politically based.
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Because desperation breeds gullibility. People want to lose weight so much that their common sense shuts off.
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Some of the greatest Christians I know are people who don't actually have a kind of faith system that they believe in. But, in their activity, the way they conduct themselves, there's a goodness there.
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Attention spans are short. Like, eight seconds short. That's why it's necessary to grab people's attention immediately.
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Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
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From the first time I did a movie, people have said, 'Oh, it's all going to change now.' And it would change, but very incrementally. I think I prefer that to some big explosion of fame all of the sudden.
