People Quotes
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I don't really think about retiring. I will retire just before people start saying, 'I knew Leonard Slatkin when he conducted well.'
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After Ann Godoff, who was editor-in-chief at Random House, left and went to Viking, I got to know Viking and the people there, and liked them very much. I also found a wonderful editor there, Wendy Wolf. It's a very congenial press.
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What, of course, we want in a university is for people to learn the skills they're going to need outside the classroom. So, having a system that had more emphasis on inquiry and exploration but also on learning and practising specific skills would fit much better with how we know people learn.
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The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events and online. Down with the isolation of writers I say! And long live Twitter.
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I want to change the perception about Latinos worldwide. I think people don't know yet how cool we are.
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I haven't tweeted once in my life, but I'm sick of hearing about it already. What once may have been the cool way of letting a hundred people know that you're about to go mow your lawn now has the feel of a used-to-be-fresh means of communicating. So yesterday, like two-way pagers. And AOL.
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I am for Obama, all the way. I dont support Obama just because he is a black man; I support him because he is an educated black man. He is making black people proud.
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If I have to play an obnoxious character, try to find a redeeming feature of him. The most obnoxious people in the world were people, and they had had a reason for doing what they did. So you try to find that and let the obnoxiousness come out.
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I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.
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If the people allow something to happen, it's the right thing.
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People in a democracy should be satisfied with drawing the Government's attention to a mistake, if any.
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The show isn't about screens, and we don't have any video content or lasers or things blowing up. I want people to come to our show to listen. I want the show to be the music.
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A lot of people have told me, you know, that what I've written about, they identify with strongly.
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Life's complicated and people do things for a lot of reasons.
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I cry a lot because I miss people.
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What some people invent the rest enlarge.
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I've been bumped, I've had to go up after them, I've had stuff thrown at me, I've been booed. I've had people steal from me and lie to me.
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A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense.
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People travel because it's a treat. For me, staying at home is a treat.
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My mother asks when I will do some theatre, and there is something about getting your 15 minute call. That is what you become an actor for - performing in front of people and getting the love from the audience.
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The only thing I can talk about is just forgiving yourself, because I do not have everything together. And so I tell people: No, you should see my house, it's a mess.
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I know gay - gay people who aren't married who are better parents than some, you know, straight people I know who are married.
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It certainly makes people question why a man who talks about family values all the time doesn't seem to care that his own sister, not to mention thousands of other Americans, can lose her job just because of her sexual orientation.
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If you become a master of meaning, you become a master of your life. Two people can have the same experience. One person decides that because of that experience his or her life is over, while the other decides that God has challenged him or her to step up, face the challenge, and become more than he or she ever was before.
