People Quotes
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Me? I was lost for long time. I didn’t make any friends for few years. You can say I made friends with two trees, two big trees in the middle of the school […]. I spent all my free time up in those trees. Everyone called me Tree Boy for the longest time. […]. I preferred trees to people. After that I preferred pigeons, but it was trees first.
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In a park, you are not working with studio materials or a flat piece of paper. You have grass and the people and the city and the daylight.
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My proudest moment is when I'm part of a good film, when people are touched by it.
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I didn't start singing until I was 16. I was afraid to sing in front of people.
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I don't understand what the big deal is with gay marriage. Get over it, people.
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... some of my people could have been left [in Africa] and are living there. And I can't understand them and they don't know me and I don't know them because all we had was taken away from us. And I became kind of angry; I felt the anger of why this had to happen to us. We were so stripped and robbed of our background, we wind up with nothing.
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When some people have a difficult job to do, they give up everything else until that job is finished. Others just give up.
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I think musicians have a responsibility to try and do something that is good. It's so hard. It's very difficult to pull something out of the hat creatively. Although I say it’s their responsibility, it's really just people trying to do the best that they can.
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I want the people who listen to my music to feel the feeling that I feel, to cry the cry that I cry - justice. I want them to feel in their hearts the need for justice.
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I'm quite a reserved person, a bit shy at first when I don't know someone. I like to have a laugh and a joke; people have seen that in me.
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I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are.
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I have been fighting writing songs for a long time. People keep telling me I should write, and other writers have offered to write with me, and to be honest, it's not something I've ever really had a passion for - plus I wasn't sure I had the talent to do it!
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I've laughed hysterically, just trying to hold it in, at every funeral I've been to, because everyone's so serious. And there are a lot of people speaking publicly, which makes you understand why it's people's number one fear - because everyone shouldn't do it.
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I'm always interested in people being able to share stories that allow us to see the landscape of human foibles, challenges, and ultimately triumph.
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That to me was the most poignant part of Diana's wedding; as she was walking up the aisle and her eyes were going left to right, looking at people and smiling in the way that Diana did - and that diamond tiara glittering like mad. It was great.
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Whatever you hold onto that you want to do, and that other people tell you you are foolish to want to do - don't give up.
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I'm a little bit of everything. Sometimes people think I'm not Puerto Rican, because my name doesn't sound Spanish.
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I am confident that the British people will not be intimidated by terrorism.
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If you outlaw half a million people you make martyrs of them. For example, if you outlaw Robin Hood, it is all very well, but if you outlaw a whole group of people around Robin Hood, then Robin Hood and his merry men become legends.
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You put on eyeliner, and people start screaming at you. How strange, and how marvellous.
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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.
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I think it's important to cultivate as many people as you can to see which ones you jive with. And it makes you happy. If one dies, you have another one. So living is a process that you have to do by yourself, and if you can learn a few little goodies along the way that might make it easier for you, so much the better.
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Try becoming a person people want to be with rather than conforming yourself to the false identity of what you conceive their ideal to be.
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I'm not a pioneer of hip-hop; I just saw it and said, 'This thing is incredible, and these people are incredible. They should be exposed all over the world.'
