People Quotes
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I feel I understand now why, whenever there are revolutions, Shakespeare is what people turn to. Because whenever a society is on the cusp, about to become something else, they find themselves in Shakespeare.
Neil MacGregor
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The billion people who wake up every day trying to figure out if they have enough food to eat won't be at Davos.
Bill Gates
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What I'm trying to do is make music that people relate to, that talks about ideas that are personal but also make that connection to trying to make revolutionary change, and I don't need to change my music to get to a certain audience.
Boots Riley
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If I went up there and beat T.J. Dillashaw at 135 pounds, I have no interest whatsoever in staying at 135. People are like, 'Why not?' and I'm like, 'I have no interest in fighting guys who walk around at 160 pounds.'
Demetrious Johnson
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As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling.
Peter Temple
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The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
William Hazlitt
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I've come to terms with the fact that if you're on TV, lots of people like you and lots of people hate you, and once you're OK with that, you apply it to everything.
Alexa Chung
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Morale in an organization does not mean that 'people get along together'; the test is performance not conformance.
Peter Drucker
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You want people using your product because it's a part of your life, then they can't stop using it.
Sean Parker
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The jokes I used to do on 'Sex and the City' were always comic character things, and they were rarely hard jokes. As soon as you go up in front of people, it demands laughter.
Michael Patrick King
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I think that if something's really good, and it touches that part of their heart that has been untouched, or maybe it has been touched but they never wanted to admit it, I think that when they get back to that, I think that we are still in a place that people enjoy it the way it's supposed to be enjoyed.
Andrae Crouch
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As an outsider to and observer of the restaurant business, one of the things I most admire about it is the risks people are willing to take.
John Lanchester
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The problem I see with most contests is that the people judging have never competed in a bodybuilding contest. I feel that to have the knowledge necessary to judge a bodybuilding competition, you must have walked in those shoes.
Rich Piana
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About half of all potential future global warming emissions from United States fossil fuels lie in oil, gas and coal buried beneath our public lands, controlled by the federal government and owned by the American people - and not yet leased to private industry for fuel extraction.
Lydia Millet
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If you want to explore things you haven't explored, having people who look just like you and think just like you is not the best way.
Astro Teller
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In Hollywood, there is one dominant voice. It is a white, male, straight gaze. When I talk about positive portrayals of black people and women, I'm saying complexity. I'm not saying goody-two-shoes, everything's okay. No. The positive view of me is to see me as I am: the 'good,' the 'bad,' the gray. That is a positive portrayal.
Ava DuVernay
