People Quotes
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I think it was the ability of the theater to communicate ideas and extol virtues that drew me to it. And also, I was, and remain, fascinated by the idea of an audience as a community of people who gather willingly to bear witness.
August Wilson
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Nothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people.
Marianne Williamson
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I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.
Joan Didion
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I knew not to give the best of myself to the worst of people.
Amy Sarig King
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Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic.
Peter L. Berger
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Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?
John Keegan
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People compare me to Angelina Jolie, and she's so serious and stoic. I'm the opposite.
Megan Fox
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I tried to mix country music into my sets in L.A., and I noticed that was when people checked out. And I was like, 'That doesn't make sense. The genre that I love the most is the one that doesn't work.'
Brett Young
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Many of the scrappy young people I meet who are the first in their family to go to college feel that they have to bring home a steady paycheck to make their family's sacrifices worthwhile.
Andrew Yan
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People never have confidence in a Big Talker. They know his statements must be cut down, but they can never tell how much.
E. W. Howe
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We're all told that people are busy, and have short attention spans, and yet these stories are so marvelous, and really ought to be read.
Harold Evans
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I love writing about people on the road.
Cynthia Kadohata
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If you forget about the money issue for just a minute, if it's possible to do that - because these are people's livelihoods we're talking about - and you look at Internet in terms of the most amazing broadcasting network ever built, then it's completely different. In some ways, that's the best way of looking at it.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.
Marcia Wallace
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When taxes are too high, people go hungry.
Lao Tzu
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Luna! Artemis! lovers' spats are icing on the cake! Your just showing off to us single people! -Minako
Naoko Takeuchi
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I feel like I'm still learning a lot. I think there's a tendency for people who are just doing their first couple of films that I see now where they seem to be really resentful of the technical limitations that come along with filmmaking.
Anna Kendrick
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When I get to Washington, the people of Florida are going to know I'm not going to spend my first year having fundraisers to pay off a campaign debt.
Jeff Greene
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Everybody is going to die, so people are enthralled by the possibility that they don't have to completely die, that there is something that comes afterward. It's like if you're going to France for the summer, you're going to read up on it. Everyone just wants to know where they're going, or if they're going anywhere.
Mary Roach
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Your mission is to find a product or service that can positively impact the lives of 1 billion people because that's the game we're playing today.
Peter Diamandis
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We are now paying the cost of people who move jobs overseas as taxpayers, and people are appalled when they hear that.
Debbie Stabenow
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People should buy a house to live in, not as an investment. Property has become such a national obsession - it was the primary subject at dinner parties and how many television shows were dedicated to the market. It's not good for the economy.
Peter Hargreaves
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The problem is not that public schools do not work well, but rather that they do. The first goal and primary function of schools is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we normally label state indoctrination.
Wendy McElroy
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Despite what people think of cowboys, they take pride in how they look, and that look is important to them.
Steve Kanaly