People Quotes
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I remember reading [ Studs Terkel's] "Working" when it first came out and just finding that very powerful. I was going into community organizing. What stuck was to reveal the sacredness of ordinary people's lives. That everybody has a story. And I think Studs is terrific at drawing out that shimmering quality of people's everyday struggles.
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I've always just talked to my family and my friends. I've never been a person that's gone through excessive therapy at all. Some people might say that I should.
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I trust people too much, and the other tragedy is I can't say no.
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I think that what happens for many Christians is, they accept their particular faith, they accept it to be true, and they stop examining it. Consequently, because it's already accepted to be true, they don't examine other people's faiths... That, I think, is not healthy for a person of any faith.
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Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.
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I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
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However much people want to politicize every movement of a controversial woman in life or on the screen, we just have to keep being personal and truthful, or we will explode.
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I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.
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Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.
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People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.
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These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people; they call a spade a spade.
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I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.
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There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!
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Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation.
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I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it.
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So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window.
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If you really want to step up your team's creative thinking, take a hard look at how many people you're putting in a room together. More than three to five is probably too many.
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M*A*S*H' was a collection of people, in front of and behind the cameras, that really clicked.
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Electricity can transform people's lives, not just economically but also socially.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.
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I hate it when people are impolite to waiters or to the valet or the guy in the supermarket. There's no need for that; it doesn't cost anything to be polite.
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I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.
