People Quotes
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It surprises people that there's actually a very large number of slaves in the world today-our best estimate is 27 million. And that is defining a slave in a very narrow way; we're not talking about sweatshop workers or people who are just poor, we're talking about people who are controlled by violence, who cannot walk away, who are being held against their will, who are being paid nothing.
Kevin Bales
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‘Aren’t people funny? I don’t find where one sits at dinner fascinating at all,’ lied the Princess.
Edward St Aubyn
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Honestly, what planet do these people live on? And why isn't it farther away?
Louise Rennison
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I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and in spite of what most people might have expected from a young girl growing up deaf, life for me was like one long episode of 'The Brady Bunch.' Despite whatever barriers were in my way, I imagined myself as Marcia Brady skating down the street saying 'hi' to everyone, whether they knew me or not.
Marlee Matlin
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In my opinion, some of the hip-hop records that come out, people are willing to compromise. I'm not.
Dr. Dre
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I remember seeing people who I thought were so confident and exuberant. I remember being young and watching Oprah and being like, 'Damn. That lady is so confident. She can talk to anybody.'
Adam Rippon
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I like L.A., but it's just too many people in the same business everywhere you go. You lose perspective.
Joel Kinnaman
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I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks - who is David Copperfield, who is Oliver Twist? And yet he takes such joy in populating the rest of his novels with these fantastic, grotesque people like Pecksmith and so on.
Mark Gatiss
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When Elvis came out on stage, it became electric. And the way people responded to him was such that, you know, I never saw that kind of response toward any other performer.
Linda Thompson
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Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
Arthur George Gaston
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So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there's so many chances you have to take.
Jimmy Page
Led Zeppelin
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I think the most important thing is discovering an idea that moves you, and then letting people who are moved by that idea find each other, and work together. A lot of times people focus on the technical side-"oh, I've got to take a class on non-profit development." Too few people allow themselves to think outside the box with regard to their issue areas.
Van Jones
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People are used to seeing kids jump around. You know, the target audience, the audience that's spending money on music, like rock and hip-hop - they're used to seeing people get really physically involved in their music.
Eric Lewis
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I really admire people who have long-distance relationships. It's an incredible achievement. I couldn't do it.
Rita Ora
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The photographers are always around. Wherever I go, they start clicking incessantly. I am always like, 'At least give me a heads-up, as, many times, I look so disheveled. What will people think?'
Alia Bhatt
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I've talked to nearly 30,000, people on this show, and all 30,000, had one thing in common: They all wanted validation...I would tell you that every single person you will ever meet shares that common desire.
Oprah Winfrey
