People Quotes
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We ought to follow through on an idea that was first proposed by President Clinton to allow people over the age of 55 who are not eligible for Medicare into the Medicare system, at cost, and below cost for those who can't afford it. That takes care of a significant number of the people who don't have health insurance.
John Edwards
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The reality of the world we live in is that people sometimes aren't interested in many circumstances; no matter how much young radicals yell at them, that isn't what they want to do right now.
Gar Alperovitz
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My dad would tell me to, 'Play for those who couldn't play.' So my motivation is for people who struggle in life daily.
Misty May-Treanor
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Under Colonel Korn's rule, the only people permitted to ask questions were those who never did.
Joseph Heller
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People get real comfortable with their features. Nobody gets comfortable with their hair. Hair trauma. It's the universal thing.
Jamie Lee Curtis
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I think that there's a tendency in this town to try to selectively pick snapshots, when the broader reality is that we have a record of results and that we're getting things done for the American people.
Scott McClellan
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I don't think people talk to me because I'm such a good, charming, good-looking guy. I don't - whether that's true or not. I think they do it because I work for a major news organization, and they think that it can probably be helpful to them and their business interests or their personal interest and what have you.
Mark Leibovich
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I don't like stepping on other people's toes, but with my size 15 shoes, people step on mine sometimes.
John Matuszak
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I mistrust these people in music industry who can be everybody. This is where technology dictates to them. I mistrust that, that in somehow the chips capture the soul of a player, that's patent nonsense.
Elvis Costello
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I never did like Cleveland. Don't know why. Didn't like the town. Now, the people are all right, but I just didn't like the town.
Stan Coveleski
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Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.
Lech Walesa
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Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.
Joe E. Lewis
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Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.
Gene Sharp
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Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life. Its mode has often been swift and coarse and ruthless, beyond art and beyond established civilization. It has engaged in warfare against the established heritage, against the bonds of pioneer existence. Its objective --the unconscious objective of a disunited people --has seemed to be that of creating fresh bonds, a new unity, the semblance of a society and the rounded completion of an American type.
Constance Rourke
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I am Ecuadorian but people felt so safe passing me off as a skinny, blue-eyed white girl.
Christina Aguilera
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If I have any lasting worth, it will be because I have tried to make people remember what the Earth is meant to look like.
Mary Oliver
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Personel selection is decisive. People are our most valuable capital.
Joseph Stalin
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People are hungry for something more beautiful, for something greater than people round about can give. There is a great hunger for God in the world today. Everywhere there is much suffering, but there is also great hunger for God and love for each other.
Mother Teresa
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In a world where discovery is more important than delivery, it's the people who find, remix and direct attention to old stuff that should be rewarded, not the people who deliver it or sit on it waiting for someone to show up.
Joichi Ito
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Regardless of your ethnicity or anything, if you do great work, people will notice and you'll get hired.
Aziz Ansari
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People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
Flannery O'Connor
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My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material.
John Mellencamp
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But if you think you aren't creative that's cool, too. I think being around people who aren't creative is kind of refreshing and nice.
Joel Hodgson
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I'm 'That Guy.' That's what most people call me, and I'm fine with that.
Tyler Labine