People Quotes
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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People are pretty simple: they do what they are rewarded for doing. If they get multimillion-dollar bonuses by taking huge risks with other people's money - as they still do - then they will continue to take those huge risks, and not give it another thought.
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I don't really think about retiring. I will retire just before people start saying, 'I knew Leonard Slatkin when he conducted well.'
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People fascinate me. Consciously or unconsciously, I have been studying their behavior all my life.
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At Standing Rock, we experienced, first-hand, people coming together in their communities and trying to use the levers of representative democracy to try and say, 'We don't want this in our community; we don't want this in our backyard,' and corporations using their monetary influence to completely erode that process.
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I always say to people that I left hip-hop in '97, meaning that I departed from listening to predominately hip-hop and just started really getting into records from the late '60s, early '70s. And once I made that change, I realized how much great music was made back in the day, and it started to become apparent how much we've lost in music.
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There are people who can't bear to fail. Those people are on the short track as far as their careers go. You have to push hard, do hard things. But you also have to be able to say, 'OK, today's not the day.'
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The by-product is that they more people you help, the "richer" you become, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and definitely financially.
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I think the worst professional advice I received was this kind of unspoken message of "sit back and wait your turn," or "sit back and wait and let other people do things."
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I don't like doing what people would expect of me.
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In a very broad statement, or mentality, you just want as many fans as you can have of your music. You want people to write songs for and connect with and play shows for.
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My aim is to change people's perceptions of what a hat can look like in the 21st century.
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When Mama starts to move across a room, people pay attention. You can never be sure she's not going to grab you by the top of the head to steady herself. And she's pretty free with that walking stick, too.
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People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic.'
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Value is what people are willing to pay for it.
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Many people seem to think that art is a luxury to be imported and tacked on to life. Art springs out of the very stuff that life is made of. Most of our young authors start to write a story and make a few observations from nature to add local color. The results are invariably false and hollow. Art must spring out of the fullness and richness of life.
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We should not be waiting until trains derail, bridges collapse and people die to adequately fund our transportation infrastructure.
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There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.
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I'm glad that I'm able to entertain and be a part of people watching shows and enjoying the work.
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I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there’s a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.
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There are people who do De Niro and Walken impersonations.
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Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.
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I'm not a fitness model; I'm just a singer. If people focus on that, that's what I care about.
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Lyme disease has become a fast epidemic worldwide. I am determined to help find a cure and figure out a way to share knowledge with the millions of people struggling with this debilitating disease.
