People Quotes
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'Yes. I like to see people get angry. I like it very much. But here in England they do not get angry like they do in Spain. In Spain they take out their knives and they curse and shout. In England they do nothing, just get very red in the face and shut up their mouths tight.'
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As you might imagine, if you're a teenager having a couple of people with microphones and guns always following you around, that could grate on them. But you know, they've handled it with grace and I give Michelle [Obama] most of the credit for how well they've done, but I also just think they are graceful, good young, young women.
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For one thing I tend not to see myself in various moulds that people fit me into.
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I knew I wanted to do music at eight years of age. I listened to a lot of Motown growing up, and it got to the point where I started mimicking people - Michael Jackson or whoever. People started to notice I could hold a tone. The bug was always there.
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People think about, when you sell a million records, "Oh. You must be buying Ferrari's and living in mansions." It was never really like that.
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America, I like the spirit. Because American people here believe in something. I like that spirit.
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I always regarded people who want fame with a lot of suspicion. Unless you have a product to sell, I don't know why anyone would want to be famous. I can't imagine what need that would fill.
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Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.
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There are some things people avoid saying in interviews because they sound pompous or sentimental or too mystical.
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If people are making fun of you, then you're probably doing something right.
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Why is it that so many people think that charity consists in giving away merely what they cannot use instead of the article the recipient needs?
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It's a common issue that you see out there, where some families aren't as accepting of what people choose to be in their life.
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People must respect our movement.
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When we took Netscape public, if people wanted to invest in the web, that was the only stock that they could do it by investing in. So Netscape's market value was higher than it probably otherwise would have been if there were lots of other ways to play that theme.
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People don't realize what's really going on in this country. There are a lot things that are going on that are unjust. People aren't being held accountable for. And that's something that needs to change. That's something that this country stands for: freedom, liberty and justice for all.
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People look at me in many ways. They've said, 'The guy has no regard for money.' That is not true. I have had regard for money. It depends on who's saying that. Some people worship money as something you've got to have piled up in a big pile somewhere. I've only thought about money in one way, and that is to do something with it. I don't think there's a thing I own that I will ever get the benefit of except through doing things with it. I don't even want the dividends from the stock in the studio, because the government's going to take it away. I'd rather have that in (the company) working.
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Any spending should be debated openly on the floor of the House and voted on in open session, with the American people having a chance to watch and listen.
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With any sort of entertainment, you hope people are entertained.
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I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you're expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you're not asking for it.
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I can't let the baggage of my private life get into work. Artists are more fragile than normal people. But I know that I am a role model for zillions of people, so no matter how deep you are hurting, you need to come out strong.
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[In Eritrea] in key positions - president, government, police - everybody's the same [color]. It's a country run by its people. No racial class, everybody feels a part of it.
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I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.
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The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill.
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I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.
