People Quotes
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To handle the economy and services in a country like Iraq requires delegation of authority and the choice of competent people.
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I grew up with heroes, people who made me aspire to raise my game, to dream bigger and I like to keep it that simple.
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There's a fine line in being too specific so you can't be too flexible, and being too vague in being specific and people not thinking it's meaningful.
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Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people to develop a curiosity and leads them towards classical music.
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Way too many people believe Republicans are anti-immigrant, anti-woman, anti-science, anti-gay, anti-worker.
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I've learnt to hide my tears on stage. They make people uncomfortable.
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To protect the right of expression is the central part of an artist’s activity. . . . . In China many essential rights are lacking, and I wanted to remind people of this.
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I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being laughed at, that I have grown as difficult to come at as a snail in a shell; and what is worse, I cannot come out of my shell when I wish it.
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It's been a very remarkable year, and I feel very blessed. I lived an isolated lifestyle before the media. I lived a life of solitude and loyalty and commitment to my work. I just don't prioritize my life in the same way that other people do. The only thing that matters is my music and my performance.
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If we went back to the basics of vegetables, legumes, grains - the things closer to the Earth - it's a lot better for the Earth and for other people. We can feed more people, we can feed the starving people.
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I get quite excited about things other people have worn. I went through a phase as a student when I wore a lot of 1940s tea dresses.
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You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.
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And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality.
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When you're in a band and there's five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every song.
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For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less should find it edifying?
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I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.
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Virtual environments are anonymous, and I'm concerned that people - mainly younger folks who grow up this way - will see social relationships as part of a game.
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I want to give people theories, I want to expose them to scientific stories that force them to re-evaluate the way they use these three pounds of meat inside their head.
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I was a tax attorney for something like seven years, so I was a tax geek. I was really into it. Tax is one of those things that people think is incredibly boring, but like any science about systems, once you get into it it, becomes incredibly intricate and interesting.
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I've done a lot of different things and worked with a lot of different people.
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We still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think.
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We feel really blessed to have been asked to come here, and to have the opportunity for our family to be able to look into the eyes of these people, and in some way help.
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I want to encourage people to make healthy life choices, whether it's training for a half-marathon, or eating more vegetables.
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I have difficulty orienting myself in space, and I'm probably one of the few people who gets lost in Manhattan.
