People Quotes
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I talk about beepers going off in the middle of a concert and people being late and not apologizing, and people not RSVP-ing, and adult children going back to live with their parents, which we didn't have in the '60s and '70s.
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I'm one of the few people I've ever met who is blessed enough to be able to love the one who got away.
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As an outsider to and observer of the restaurant business, one of the things I most admire about it is the risks people are willing to take.
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What do they call it, Y.O.L.A., you only live once? I think people are sort of gravitating towards that.
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I found myself in a pattern of being attracted to people who were somehow unavailable, and what I realized was that I was protecting myself because I equate the idea of connection and love with trauma and death.
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As we know from the work of certain fundamental physicists, people like Einstein were very dependent upon conjuring up visual images in order to imagine things which otherwise were not easily formulated.
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Growing up, I had a face that people wanted to tell things to, and I grew up with adults who had so much to say. They had lived through decades of unbelievable poverty, starvation, political upheaval, chaos.
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I acknowledged that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that I would in turn empower the people.
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People don't want to watch a sport where you see people fall down and somehow score above someone who goes clean.
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We know well and we know chronically ill, but there is a whole bunch of gray in between where I think we can heal people before they become chronically sick. I believe our thoughts make us sick.
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Not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing.
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It is such a crazy idea that maybe something that I wrote or something that I put on a record would affect people at all.
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To foster the people's willing spirit is often as important as to possess the more concrete forms of power.
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I wanted to be able to go shopping without people looking to see if I really was one of the world's 10 most beautiful women. I longed to be myself.
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Anyone who has tried to build something that changes people's lives sometimes finds life to be a distraction, and finds people who don't care as much as they do to be annoying.
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I want young people to know there is no age limit to when they can start their own business or when they can become a boss.
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One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
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I could party in a cardboard box with people who are funny and don't care. For me, it's really about who I surround myself with, so I just try to always be with hilarious people.
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Most people can't see the connection between their own lives and the oceans.
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People cheat on each other in a hundred different ways: indifference, emotional neglect, contempt, lack of respect, years of refusal of intimacy. Cheating doesn't begin to describe the ways that people let each other down.
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People ask me if I think Anne Boleyn was a feminist... but she wasn't striking out on behalf of women, and she wasn't particularly keen on them.
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You should have seen Willie Wells play shortstop: as good as Ozzie Smith and a better hitter. How I wish people could have seen Ray Dandridge play third base, as good as Brooks Robinson and Craig Nettles and all of those. He was bowlegged; a train might go through there, but not a baseball.
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The more you make people alike, the more competition you have. Competition is based on the principle of conformity. (p. 135)
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I can't stand it when people say, "If you're writing a novel, you should read this and that." Because it's like giving someone another person's prescription. How do you know that's what they need?
