People Quotes
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Can you really send back people to where they are fleeing from?
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I don't worry about alienating fans. I don't think most people these days think of artists as sellouts if they license their music for a commercial or a movie trailer. If anything, fans get psyched when they hear Sleigh Bells on TV or at the movies. As a band who doesn't make money off of record sales it's a great way for us to pay the bills!
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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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Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.
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People like scary stories. There's a fascination with fear themes, and we want to face those things in a weird, subconscious way.
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Honestly the world is so fucked rn. Can we all just show each other a little love and instead of passing judgment on people that don’t what’s right or wrong. I’m just so tired of people straying further from the path they were born to follow.
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A lot of people believe that when you are Buddhist, you are the Dalai Lama. I'm certainly not.
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At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat.
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In Maryland, I didn't grow up around poor white people. Where I grew up, the white people were middle class or upper-middle class. It's interesting how screwed up it is in reality, because most people who receive assistance from the government are white, but not in my head or in my experience.
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I have always liked hanging out with people and talking to people.
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I was quite intrigued by the idea of following the exploits of people who are often in the margins.
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Award shows are really silly. I'm very happy for the people that win the awards, and I can say they're really silly, but I would love to get one. So I also know wasting time on that is pointless.
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For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.
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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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What attracts me to material are characters that I know - characters that I know people don't know but I know - and bringing them to the screen. Spotlighting voices that have not been heard before on screen.
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There are a lot of laws from Europe about employing people which are absolute nonsense.
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I love picking people. I started Blackstone, and we had no people, and now we have with our portfolio companies about 750,000 people all over the world. Everybody who is at a senior level has ultimately been picked by me.
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If your government says you can own property and maintain control of it, but only if you pay property taxes, you are a renter, not an owner. Governments get away with these rackets because enough people still believe they somehow represent “the will of the people,” as opposed to their sponsors.
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I am very comfortable saying what I believe I can do, being very specific about how we will do it, how we will pay for it, and having people know that I want them to hold me accountable.
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Domestic violence is much more prevalent than people realize.
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The basic principles of democracy should be observed whatever the country - principles such as civil liberties, a free market, a free press, the priority of the individual over mythical state interests, a state which serves the interests of ordinary people and defends their rights and interests. This is all easy to say but hard to make reality.
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I love to honour people and to write positive songs about them.
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The Mexico - United States border was always porous. People have been going and coming back since before the Spaniards arrived. Now we're seeing communities who have family members on the other side very frightened. I feel saddened for those families divided by violence. The whole border area is under siege.
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Falling asleep is like landing a plane. It takes time. You've got to sort of gradually descend. I think one of the problems with insufficient sleep is people are not very good at predicting how poorly they are doing when they are under-slept.
