People Quotes
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That's one of the great things about being an actor. You get to learn all these things normal people don't get to learn.
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I get way more nervous playing golf in front of 500 people than being on stage in front of 20,000 people.
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Broke people talk about people and problems. Rich people talk about ideas and goals. Your conversation chooses your destiny.
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I think the biggest problem in our country is mass incarceration and the prison-industrial complex. From the Rockefeller drug laws to stand your ground to stop and frisk, all these are pointing people, especially and disproportionately black and brown people, towards the criminal-justice system. It's depleting whole generations of people.
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I urge all young people to go for their dreams. If they do, many of the world’s problems will be solved.
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It seems like there's a lot of people who just do not understand satire. They think it's weird. There's people who just don't understand you portray something or just explore a character, it means you're condoning it, saying this is the way to live.
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You've gotta be careful because art is really important to most people, and you wanna respect that as much as possible. So I live by that rule.
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Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around.
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People treat having a kid as somehow retiring from success. Quitting. Have you seen a baby? They’re pretty cute. Loving them is pretty easy. Smiling babies should actually be categorized by the pharmaceutical industry as a powerful antidepressant. Being happy is really the definition of success, isn’t it?
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Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and valuing differences.
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My hope is to see people of color in roles that do not emphasize race. Often times when movies are centered around people of color, they are movies where the storyline is based on some racial component. I want to see movies where people of color play more interesting, nuanced characters.
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Do the thousands of people that Donald Trump have stiffed over the course of your business not deserve some kind of apology from someone who has taken their labor, taken the goods that they produced, and then refused to pay them?
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Some of the smartest people I know are metal fans.
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I can't just make a song people can dance in a club to... it still has to be real.
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'Justice' actually means different things to different people.
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You know, people have actually changed the way they think about nuclear weapons now, post-Cold War, post-9/11. The threat of nuclear weapons is not so much Russia attacking the United States, China. It's not a state-to-state - it's obviously terrorism; it's proliferation.
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There are certain people that you don't have to even work at extracting their inner life. It is just there and they're happy to share it with you.
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People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they are segregated, it will be a poor plan for poor people.
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Some people actually sleep better when the significant other is with them. For other couples, it's the opposite.
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It's been helpful to have so many opportunities to look different so people stop pigeonholing you.
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I don't think I'm an artist or that I'm doing anything superintellectual. What's important to me is to get a visceral reaction from people, for them to want that coat because they think it's beautiful.
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Patty Griffin is iconic, and there's no other word to really describe her. She is iconic for a lot of people - not only for me but for a lot of fans. Her voice is one of a kind, and she's such an important figure in the American music scene.
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One of the great joys of my job is having the privilege of meeting people from all across the country and hearing their stories.
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People don't alter. They may with enormous difficulty modify themselves, but they never really change.
