People Quotes
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My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
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The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
Maximilien Robespierre
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I'm confused that there is a lack of faith in listening to and deciding what is a great song and instead going for these formulaic, bad songs over and over again. But that's what happened when people from beverage companies bought record labels and radio stations as opposed to people who love music owning record labels.
Patty Griffin
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People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.
Rakul Preet Singh
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
Sally Pearson
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
Jack Kerouac
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I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable.
Alan Ball
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Do things for people not because for who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.
Harold Kushner
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For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.
Desmond Tutu
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There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business, but are essential to governing, like keeping a kid in school or helping someone get and hold a job. The value of those skills can't easily be measured against a bottom line.
Dee Dee Myers
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The heroes of 'Narcos' are the Colombian people who fought and decided to do something about the horrible narco-terrorism that took place in their country back in the '80s.
Wagner Moura
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I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me.
Gaby Hoffmann
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I always looked at rock & roll as the voice of regular people, of an economic group not in charge.
Chris Cornell Soundgarden
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I hope people don't think I'm crazy, because I'm not.
Macaulay Culkin
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Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.
Jesse Ventura
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Well, we all know that self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you.
Gloria Gaynor
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I love performing, and I love the idea of people buying records. I don't particularly like the idea of people knowing me or thinking they do, but that's a part of what I choose. I choose not to go to college; I choose to be a singer.
Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
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I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
Fleur East
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I've always had a passion to help people.
Anthony Hemingway
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Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.
Kate Chopin
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I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.
Eddie Bernice Johnson
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What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.
Hal Boyle
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We never thought it would be something everyone would listen to. We never thought people who listen to Britney Spears would run to listen to it. It was intended for people on the fanatical side of production and hi-fi.
Wayne Coyne