People Quotes
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When you're in other people's country you don't speak your own language out of respect. You don't need to speak.
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I guess I feel that I was following my instincts, and at the same time being guided by the best. I became totally intrigued with Louisiana - the people, the food. It is a part of my life. Everything that has happened for me since moving here has just been icing on the cake.
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I like to say that the one thing that all people who succeed in changing the world have in common is that they at least tried.
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It is time to stand strong for the American people. It is time to champion the interests of those constantly neglected on the question of immigration: the men and women and children we represent - the citizens of this country to whom we owe our ultimate allegiance.
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Constantly writing with new people is important. Also, listening to new music that's popular and that's making a splash - that's how I get motivated.
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People make one happy, not houses? I do not think so. Houses are more to be trusted than people.
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I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away. That's why I tend to work with the same people; I really befriend them.
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The problem is these days people don't watch television together. The husband is downstairs watching The Game and the wife is upstairs watching The Good Wife. They don't need a show they can watch together. What family dramas are on now that are working?
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I hate when I get a script and I can't see who the people are.
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I don't feel like I'm writing music for gay people. I'm a gay man who is writing music about one tiny little experience of what it's like to be a human on this planet.
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I think it's naïve to think white people aren't singing along directly!
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I look at society and I look at people and I say... I'm not Mr. Motivator. I think you get a better sense - I believe in energy. I believe in passion. I believe in teaching people.
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The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it’s really a wheel.
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I don't trust the people when they say, 'There's pressure when you're top.' I prefer the pressure of being top of the table.
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More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world.
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The Way It Is There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change. People wonder about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread. But it is hard for others to see. While you hold it you can’t get lost. Tragedies happen; people get hurt or die; and you suffer and get old. Nothing you do can stop time’s unfolding. You don’t ever let go of the thread.
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The facts of the fossil record never justified denying poor people a healthy diet. The facts of the weather record do not justify denying poor people affordable energy. And no set of facts, whatever they may be, can justify denying scientists - or anyone else, for that matter - the right to free speech.
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It's a very tough thing to run for office, but it's also the way the American people get to know you.
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You don't want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label really support your band and the music and stuff.
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In an era when museum curators were busy introducing the public to photographs of daily life taken by Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Diane Arbus, why did they simultaneously disdain paintings depicting the same kind of people?
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Restaurants serve huge portions on even huger platters, and people are tempted to eat too much.
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Whenever people reach out the hand of friendship towards me, I am not going to refuse that hand.
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People remember the last thing you did.
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I'll sing as long as people want to hear me, and I'll be able to sing as long as I'm alive.
