People Quotes
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There was a time when 'Batman' really kept me from getting some pretty good roles, and I was asked to do what I figured were important features. However, Batman was there, and very few people would take a chance on me walking onto the screen. And they'd be taking people away from the story.
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I think people ultimately reveal themselves to everybody. I think that's the case with Sarah Palin's conduct, particularly after the Tucson shooting, I think she's sort of digging herself into a hole. I hope - I really hope.
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When finding that people held the same views as I, I persuaded myself that I held them differently.
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A free religion and a free people in a free land.
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I sense a learning: that much dumber people than you end up in charge.
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As a pastor, I've spent 30 years talking to people and heard every kind of story imaginable.
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Being unique is never easy, and often, by the time culture catches up with you, there are only a few people who notice.
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The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people.
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It's about time that society accepts people for who they are.
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There are many people that frankly cannot get themselves to oppose Barack Obama. They make a lot of excuse for him.
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My mother had people lay hands on me to cast demons out of me when I was 8. Then two or three times when I was in college.
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Being 15, I feel like people want me to go down the Justin Bieber, Cody Simpson sort of genre.
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I have my Poetry 180 project, which I've made my main project. We encourage high schools, because that's really where, for most people, poetry dies off and gets buried under other adolescent pursuits.
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When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. You're talking about your connections as a human being.
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Some people don't like my fiction, because they prefer the nonfiction. But moving around keeps the work fresh for me and, hopefully, for my one or two readers who follow me from book to book!
Colson Whitehead -
I cannot approve of monarchs who want to rule over the conscience of the people, and take away their freedom of choice and religion.
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Why don't these companies making big profits just pay people better than $14 an hour? It's kind of simple. When you're making record profits, why not? I don't get it.
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Acting is interesting because you get to be involved in different stories and get to work with different people. Also, acting allows one to be a part of different stories, travel to different parts of the country and all the experiences put together make life interesting.
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For people who want to be proactive about their health, there is a lot of information that we can provide. If you are going to have children, I think you have a responsibility to know if you are carrying anything. A lot of people tend to do the testing once they are pregnant.
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Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them.
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Tell the truth, because sooner or later the public will find out anyway. And if the public doesn't like what you are doing, change your policies and bring them into line with what people want.
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I am bewildered at the length to which people will go to portray me so negatively.
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Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It's shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.
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I get invited to a lot of college campuses, and administrators think it's going to be a lecture on 'trans-ness' or whatever. But when young people get there, their questions are about just life.
