People Quotes
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Leadership is a position where you want to create the opportunity to inspire people to walk along beside you, not listen to what you say.
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I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the younger generation.
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Jared glared. Some people, Kami knew, had bedroom eyes. She was saddened to have to admit that Jared had filthy alleyway eyes.
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People change two ways --- with slow persistent pressure, or with a single and sudden traumatic experience.
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The MTV Video Awards were never about the video, but about the song. Most of the time it was just to glorify people for the wrong reason.
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PACs don't vote in the district; people do.
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I grew up in Georgia, and my mom would tell me how to perform and act. So I learned to repress a lot of myself so that other people would feel comfortable.
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I constantly signal to the Iraqi leaders that our patience, or the patience of the American people, is running out.
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Even the toughest people have a backstory, and villains don't feel like they're the bad guys.
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Find people who share your values, and you'll conquer the world together.
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I'm out doing my deal, I'm turning people on. What's wrong with taking people away from their everyday mundane situation and having a good, fun night for an hour and a half at a rock'n'roll scene?
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Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their "virtues" as others do from their sins.
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All right. I'm corny. But I think there's just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country that are just as corny as I am.
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I don't collect the way other people do. Some people collect rare guitars, like, 'I have a '54 Strat worth $50,000.' And I don't collect the way Nash does. Nash has Duane Allman's guitar and Johnny Cash's guitar. I bought guitars because they sounded good. I played them, they sounded unbelievably good, and I couldn't resist.
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It's typical for people living in nonurban areas to drive 100 miles to go to work, to the grocery store or to the doctor.
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Bin Laden was intelligent, well-informed, and low key. The people around him treated him with great deference, calling him 'sheikh,' a term of respect.
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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed if necessary.
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I ask myself why I do it. Maybe it's to prove I'm still around. It takes a lot out of my body. I'm not an NBA player anymore. At my age, very few people can handle it.
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It's not racist if I like the race. But I don't like Asian people.
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I guess when you write a personal story, people feel compelled to share their own stories.
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What you saw was the people of New York having a debate, talking through these issues. It was contentious. It was emotional. But ultimately, they made a decision to recognize civil marriage. And I think that's exactly how things should work.
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I just never, ever want to give up. Most battles are won in the 11th hour, and most people give up. If you give up once, it's quite hard. If you give up a second time, it's a little bit easier. Give up a third time, it's starting to become a habit.
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Knock on wood, my groupies tend to be very artistic, creative people - sometimes way more creative than I am.
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In so many of the other beats these days, there are these layers of public relations people that you have to go through to get to the newsmakers themselves.
