People Quotes
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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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The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial.
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Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war.
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Subliminally, I had always wanted to act. Although I had only performed in a couple of plays, I was serious about it and was subsequently trained by people like Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan.
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Restaurants serve huge portions on even huger platters, and people are tempted to eat too much.
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I really believe you can carry yourself in such a way that people don't notice you.
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Iraq has lost 5 percent of its population, a number that in the U.S. would equal 14 million people.
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I'm not fond of cities: the constant activity and swarms of people.
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The role of a leader is not to rule over other people, but to hold a space for their own genius.
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You can't judge the people that you play anyway; you leave that for somebody else to do.
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Parents teach in the toughest school in the word: The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, theclassroom teacher, and the janitor, all rolled into two. . . . There are few schools to train you for your job, and there is no general agreement on the curriculum. . . . You are on duty, or at least on call, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for at least 18 years for each child you have. Besides that, you have to contend with an administration that has two leaders or bosses, whichever the case may be.
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Remember, this is back in the '40s, and the idea of a museum being a place where interested people could come in direct contact with works hadn't arrived on the scene yet. That, I think, I first ran into at the Freer Gallery in Washington, D.C., where a man named Marty Martin Amt decided that he really felt his job - part of his job, as an assistant to the director was to make the collection available to interested people.
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I curl up inside and freeze when I have to act. I much prefer sitting on the sidelines and trying to get the best out of other people.
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Mark Hughes at his very best: he loves to feel people right behind him.
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I got a letter from this lady of Russian and Jewish descent. She asked me if I was a racist because I didn't do any White people. I was shocked, because my mandate is to do Black studies. It would have never occurred to me if this lady hadn't written this letter. We decided we were going expand the brand and do everybody.
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Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.
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I can feel this pressure of living up to the expectations of people. I hope I can fulfill it.
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I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, and of people who will see a world that I shall never know.
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Sometimes all a story needed was one or two people to read or listen to it to make it matter.
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Maybe I should have played two more Australians and two less Davis Cups? I could have had more majors and still have three Davis Cups when most people don't have one.
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I like to do things that are about relationships, work with quality people, and tell a different kind of story.
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And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power.
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I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become historical the next day.
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I love Canadians. I think we make an impact around the world just when people meet us, and whenever I meet another Canadian, I see it as well.
