People Quotes
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No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
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He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish; give the men tobacco and leave the women alone
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Don't allow people to suck up all your time with their questions or problems. Learn to say 'no' more often.
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When Indians have loved and embraced Pakistani artistes, why can't the latter come out in their support when injustice has been meted out to the people? No one wants these artistes to wage a war against their government. People didn't demand that they condemn their own country. They just expected them to say something for the sake of humanity.
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You can see how an increase in the water level would wipe out hundreds of thousands of people's homes.
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Writing songs is no different than explaining to somebody what you dreamed last night: No one ever gives you crap for what you dreamed last night. "I was laying in my bed, and all of a sudden a stallion jumped on my bed and the next thing I know I was in Mars but it looked like my kitchen"... That's kind of what I do with my songs, write them in a dream-like manner. It's up to people to swallow it however they want.
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I would rather do things that I really love with people that I love working with, and to be able to extend that and go and play, it's great. I feel very fortunate.
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It's very important to say that French doesn't belong to France and to French people. Now you have very wonderful poets and writers in French who are not French or Algerian - who are from Senegal, from Haiti, from Canada, a lot of parts of the world.
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From the time I was 20 and people would say, 'Chicks with Picks,' I hated it. It's not a genre, it's a gender.
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People are coming to you at their most vulnerable; they're showing you the parts of themselves that they're afraid to show: the parts that they're not so sure about, not so secure in. And so it's a really holy profession I think, teaching. If you do it right, it can change somebody's life.
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Some people don't understand what our team is all about. We're more for assistance for the coroner who can't handle the amount of deaths
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If you said to people you can cast a secret ballot on whether to turn back the clock and have Morsi in power again, I don't think very many people in Washington would turn back that clock.
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For nearly 2,000 years, most people assumed that the only sources of tradition about Jesus and his disciples were the four gospels in the New Testament.
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So we have a commitment to the business and to its people.
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Apps have made it easier to meet people but harder to connect.
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People aren't hiring me to be a 'yes' man. They have their girlfriends for that.
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Many rich people in China made their fortunes by damaging natural resources and building corrupt relations with the government.
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People take chances every now and then, and you don't want to disappoint them.
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Tact is the great ability to see other people as they think you see them.
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I've found that the more honest and true you are and can talk about a character and people's experiences, it's less ostracizing. It actually has the opposite effect than one would think. It makes the characters and the story more inclusive.
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...Albert-next-door doesn't care for reading, and he has not read nearly so many books as we have, so he is very foolish and ignorant, but it cannot be helped... Besides, it is wrong to be angry with people for not being so clever as you are yourself.
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The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand.
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People who feel the world is tilted against them will spawn the kind of hatred that is very dangerous for all of us. I think it's a healthy sign that there are demonstrators in the streets. They are raising the question of 'is the rich world giving back enough?'
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The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.
