People Quotes
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Maybe it's better like this, better that everything should go up in a blaze of dry grass and that people should begin again.
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The people who don't know me only see me through sound bites, and everything's changed around. Things I've said are changed to suit the magazine or newspaper concerned. The people who know me have a very different view, I would say.
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It's difficult to see how Syria can have any long-term future with Assad there as president. Many people would never return to that country if that were the case.
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I saw the discrimination that was happening towards Middle Easterners, Muslims and other brown people who had nothing to do with 9/11. It suddenly felt like a duty of mine to talk about some of the crazy things that were going on and make fun of how stupid it was.
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I do get credit for having a California sound to my music, but I don't think people really know what that means - they think the Beach Boys. I'm thinking more like Sunset Strip in the 1960s and stuff like that.
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Advertising gets such a bashing from the world. At parties you are always asked, 'Aren't you just selling people things they don't want?'
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I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life.
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Music is always occurring. It is just a matter of marketing, attention, and many other factors, that determines whether people will hear these songs or not.
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The roles I was lucky enough to get were real stretches for me: usually a character who was older, or a little weird, or whatever. And it was hard, not just for the lack of work but because you have to face up to how people are looking at you.
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None of the people I grew up with had identity problems. We all had perfectly marvelous lives.
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I think that breaking into the mainstream - it was just the right cycle of music for us in Blink-182. People were kind of over the boy-band, pop-princess, manufactured sensibility, and were excited for guitars and angst and energy and enthusiasm, which is our thing.
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In the referendum - which was still decided to take place by the Crimea's old parliament - the majority of citizens voted for belonging to Russia. This is democracy, the people's will.
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The force is tired and that is different for equipage and different from other metrics of readiness. We have run people hard and we have run families hard, and they haven't had much time to recover.
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I encourage people that if this really lights a fire for them, go for it.
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I always try to be a trend setter. That's what I always tell young people when I'm giving them advice. To go with their heart and don't follow the trends.
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A few people have privately voiced fears that on coming back to office I shall go after them. These fears are groundless. There will be no paying off old scores. The past is prologue.
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When you read comic material and people aren't laughing how do you know they're listening.
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I think for the most part people are proud of the bicultural foundation New Zealand is built on and the fact that we are a multicultural society.
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The more generous the benefit, the easier you make it to stay on unemployment insurance, and the less incentive there is for people to actually go out and do what it takes to get a job.
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Something is very, very wrong when people dont have access to drinking water, and Coke creates its market out of that scarcity.
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Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.
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I'm sure my desire to perform came, in part, from being around politics as a kid. My dad had a big personality, and a lot of the people involved in Boston politics have big personalities, so there were all kinds of wacky people around.
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I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far.
