People Quotes
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In some people's eyes, nudity is so much more dangerous than violence. I never really understood that.
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However the great successes of science - Galileo's telescopic observations, Newton's law of gravity, etc - all of this great success caused people to sort of say, what if we could establish religion on that same successful basis? What if we could have a good rational foundation for religious belief. What if religion could be sort of like science. Of course, that can't be.
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For the most part, I feel really comfortable with what I've given to the people. I want to give it to them again.
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I think it's lovely when people are more involved in local politics.
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I think the most important challenge that remains is this mentality in Washington that sanctions have been an asset, and some people want to find even an excuse to keep them or an excuse to reintroduce them. I don't know whether they've looked at the record of how sanctions actually produce exactly the opposite of what they wanted to produce.
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To lead uninstructed people to war is to throw them away.
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As for suspense, I like to write books that draw you into the hero's plight from the opening pages, where people put their lives on the line for something - a belief, a family member, the truth.
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When people send people on summer camps or bonding trips, they send them to do things like high rope climbing or extraordinary things. And when you do extraordinary things with people, like fighting battles or simulating huge wars, you do bond very quickly.
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I'm very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I'm worried about the kinds of cuts in domestic programs that mean something to a lot of people, including members of my family, who depend on certain things from the government.
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It's - the working class of San Francisco and the Bay Area is being pushed out of its old neighborhoods because of the skyrocketing cost of housing, and there's no real working class left because these are jobs for engineers and managers and designers - very smart people.
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I think that with marriages, people have to understand that you have to look at your marriage and understand what is needed in your marriage - not what people think your marriage should be or what people want your marriage to be.
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I never thought about being the highest paid. I just wanted to be someone that people cared about watching, and I feel I'm a good actor.
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People over 30 are interested in sex too, but they get real movies about it.
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People who repress desires often turn, suddenly, into hypocrites.
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I've met some smart people doing security work in the government, and they're starting to reach out to a broader audience, which I think is a good thing.
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I think it's so important to have a great support network when you feel like you can't - I would actually go and talk to the people who tell you that you can.
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He who does not thank the people is not thankful to Allah.
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People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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Rebuilding our relationship with Cuba would be a win for American business and a win for the Cuban people.
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My own novel, 'The Silver Bough,' about the inhabitants of a remote town at risk of being overwhelmed by Scotland's mythological past, was once criticised by a disgruntled fan as 'fantasy for people who don't read fantasy.'
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It probably is harder to fool people when they know they're going to be fooled.
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It's always irritated me that people say, 'Where's the action? Oh wow, there's no action here; let's go somewhere else.' These people will never find the action.
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Social media seemed to promise a way to better connect with people; instead, it seems to have made it easier to tune out the people we don't agree with.
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Some people are very good at that, communicating with the world; I'm not sure I'm suited to it.
