People Quotes
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I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear to other people. They're so earnest about it. But that's true of so many things.
Christopher Guest
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News - communicating news and ideas, I guess - is my passion. And giving people alternatives so that they have two papers to read (and) alternative television channels.
Rupert Murdoch
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
Agnes Denes
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It's becoming much more common to see yoga studios offer classes aimed exclusively at people of color who are searching for ways to cope with racism and fears around police brutality.
Jenna Wortham
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Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on art.
Jerry Saltz
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I heard during our label-searching that some labels hire statisticians instead of A&R people. They'll reach out to the bands that will statistically perform best monetarily instead of going out to shows and having an opinion on which music is good or bad.
Lucy Dacus
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People enjoy making fun of people who are famous; they love putting people down.
Lee Daniels
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Somebody can say they don't understand why somebody drifts. But I've always found people who drift interesting, 'cause it shows me the game's not stagnant in their own head. They're thinking.
Dennis Miller
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If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities.
Jim Henson
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Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people.
John Thorn
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Why do the people think so little of death? Because the rulers demand too much of life. Therefore the people take death lightly.
Lao Tzu
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There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music.
Stephen Fry
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Not using fly ash in our highways would just be a plain waste of taxpayers' money, which I find unacceptable. Most people don't realize that without fly ash, many of Montana's infrastructure projects simply would not have been possible - like the Hungry Horse Dam near Glacier National Park.
Matt Rosendale
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I've probably said a million times in my life something about, "All those people are just lemmings. They'd follow each other off a cliff." Well, no such thing.
Cassandra Peterson
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That's sad too, people cannot do anything that dreadful they cannot do anything very dreadful at all they cannot even remember tomorrow what seemed dreadful today.
William Faulkner
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There is always for me a dominant figure, I simply don't agree with people who see both readings as possible of the figure and ground.
Ellsworth Kelly
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Capitalism does a number of things very well: it helps create an entrepreneurial spirit; it gets people motivated to come up with new ideas, and that's a good thing.
Bernie Sanders
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Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you.
Jimmy Johnson
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Everybody always talks about the science fiction genre, in particular, which always makes me think about people in spaceships. I can appreciate that, but that's not really where I think my dramatist aspect lies.
Quentin Tarantino
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I believe that people just want to laugh and have a good time.
Kym Whitley
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The members of a body-politic call it "the state" when it is passive, "the sovereign" when it is active, and a "power" when they compare it with others of its kind. Collectively they use the title "people," and they refer to one another individually as "citizens" when speaking of their participation in the authority of the sovereign, and as "subjects" when speaking of their subordination to the laws of the state.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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It seems that a lot of people, who haven’t known of me as a pianist, think I’ve just started off as a comedian. And so for them the piano was something extra. But, of course, playing the piano was something that came before all of what’s happened now.
Dudley Moore
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I love that basketball gives me the opportunities to do good things for people and to point them towards the Man who died for our sins on the cross.
Stephen Curry
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There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.
Rita Mae Brown