People Quotes
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Honorable beginnings should serve to awaken curiosity, not to heighten people's expectations. We are much better off when reality surpasses our expectations, and something turns out better than we thought it would.
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If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.
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The walls of people hardly affected me. You closed your mind to such things.
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The country is now universally recognised as a nation on the move and takes its place amongst the successful economies in the region. The future potential is enormous but the country's destiny is in our hands. The time has come to move from small increments to bold, large initiatives. The time has come to stretch the envelope and set goals which were earlier not seen to be possible. The time has come for performance to be measured and for allocated funds of the government to reach the people for whom they were intended.
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You have to tell a good story first. If it's a good story, people will be interested. It doesn't matter about the content.
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I don't put pictures of my children on, rarely, I think I've done it twice? I'm thoughtful about that, because I don't think you can get it back, and I don't think it's fair to people to try to convey a desire to maintain some privacy and then share pictures and expect that somebody else won't want the same ability.
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I'm attracted to intelligence and creativity and passion - and not necessarily the romantic kind. I want to learn from someone who is greedy for information and light and laughter and the whole world. Someone who celebrates their days and finds inspiration in what other people accomplish.
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The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he 'likes' them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds him liking more and more people as he goes on - including people he could not even have imagined himself liking at the beginning.
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When will we address the fact that rich, white people think they know what's in the best interest of children of African-Americans and Latinos - no matter what the parent's income or education level.
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The thing I know for sure is that at the end of my life, what I'm going to remember is the love I felt for my family and my friends, and whatever good I did for other people.
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If you're asking me to compare myself to other people, I don't really know what other people are like.
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Just because people are related doesn't always make the difference it should.
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The majority of teenagers don't even make eye contact with people, even people of the same age.
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A lot of people listening to music now don't listen to the songs or lyrics at all. They just go, "Good tones..." and that's it.
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When people are oppressed, and human rights are denied - particularly along sectarian lines or ethnic lines - when dissent is silenced, it feeds violent extremism, it creates an environment that is ripe for terrorists to exploit. When peaceful, democratic change is impossible, it feeds into the terrorist propaganda that violence is the only answer available.
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In your 40s, you shed those who bring you down and surround yourself with the most positive people you know.
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I can very much enjoy taking a year off. Whereas some people would feel crippled by that, I can feel enlarged by it.
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You get enough people agreeing in consciousness that Mexico is a dangerous place, and that dangerous thought will make it so.
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My role as king will be much like my mum's as queen, so long as I remain in tune with the people.
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I don't look at what people do with their homes in terms of money, but the social and personal value of what they're trying to do and achieve.
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People say their weight is genetic. But it turns out that people who are overweight don't just have overweight kids. They also have overweight pets. That's not genetic.
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People should be happy to see you when you show up to a club because you're a good person. And stop caring about what the industry is "looking for". Just say what you think is funny. .
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As long as you tell the best story possible, you can trust that people will be able to connect to it.
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We're the largest home improvement company today, and we did $30 billion last year, or less than 10 percent of the total amount of building materials sold in the U.S. So when people ask, how much runway left does Home Depot have, it's an awful lot.
