People Quotes
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All the events of your past have formed a lens, or paradigm, through which you see the world. And since no one's past is exactly like anyone else's, no two people see alike.
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There are so many projects that I've written and had to abort because either I felt too distressed by what I was doing to the people who I was writing about, or they couldn't cope with it because their view of themselves was so far removed from reality.
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When I was a kid I feel lonely, I have not many friends. If you make a movie, then you can work with different kinds of people and make different kinds of friend. That's very important to me.
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If you want to get at African American poverty, the income gap, wealth gap, achievement gap, that the most important thing is to make sure that the society as a whole does right by people who are poor, are working class, are aspiring to a better life for their kids.
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People do give me a hard time about my hair because it's orange and it's big.
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I want to be a reflection of what's going on and let people draw their own conclusions.
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Just do the math. In the next 50 to 75 years, people will be living to be 130 and 140. They'll be working until they're 100. It's incredible.
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I think anything that has to do with sexuality makes people very interested.
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We have a philosophy of we'll keep putting it up until people get it. We did that actually these last three weeks with Cracked Out from New York. People didn't really understand them. We put them up three weeks ago and they just got stared at.
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People must talk. But they make you popular; that’s the truth.
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The nature of making music and making art, what motivates me is that it's interesting. It's interesting to listen, to really listen to other people's point-of-view. Take in their work. Listen to the way they sing. Listen to the way they write lyrics. What they are trying to express.
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In fact, I think [Donald Trump] welcomes the fact that he's got people in the room that may not agree with each other on everything, but he prefers to be presented opinions that are varying at the same time and then making an informed decision based on everyone's input before making decisions.
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Bringing people together is one of my favorite things... I believed that's what a rock 'n' roll Jesus would really do - bring people together through music.
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The greatest joy I get is setting up plays for somebody else. I take a lot of pride in helping other people make plays.
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A country can't love you. At most it may need you. It's much the same as people.
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I'm a Christian. I was born and raised a Catholic. But I think there are people that are frauds that are ministers.
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I can see why many Southerners, black ones in particular, don't like the implication that Southernness and the Confederate heritage are one and the same, because they're not. On the other hand, there are people who want to extirpate that completely and want folks to spit on the graves of their ancestors.
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I definitely respect the men and women who came before me and how much those people gave to me musically.
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We rely too much on the people we share our lives with. We hold them responsible for things they are not even aware of. We start blaming them.
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The price point and the quality are very rare. I don't want people thinking, "I got the look for less." I want them thinking, "I got the look!"
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Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
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Despite what people say about my major film roles, I'm not a dull or monotonous woman searching for self-identity.
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Later in life, suddenly, if you're an outsider, it's something to be celebrated, I think, rather than getting on people's nerves.
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So many people are paralyzed by worrying, "What are these people going to think?"
