People Quotes
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I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.
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To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else. Rather than speaking badly about people and in ways that will produce friction and unrest in their lives, we should practice a purer perception of them, and when we speak of others, speak of their good qualities.
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Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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The nature of making music and making art, what motivates me is that it's interesting. It's interesting to listen, to really listen to other people's point-of-view. Take in their work. Listen to the way they sing. Listen to the way they write lyrics. What they are trying to express.
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Some people around you don't mean you good.
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The establishment can't change. It can't give people anything different; it can't make the turn.
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I don't want to interact with people but I do get lonely.
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I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions.
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Guys get voted into the Hall of Fame who don't belong, who lack the numbers. I'm very upset at the Hall of Fame for that. It's not fair to the people who went in early.
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We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending.
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As long as you tell the best story possible, you can trust that people will be able to connect to it.
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For me, the watershed was Hurricane Katrina. If that didn't get people out on the streets, then what will?
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What I'm finding out now is that people care more about a flag than about their fellow man. That's killing me.
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Love is a concept invented by poor people.
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We're able to use certain techniques to get people to behave in certain ways. We're able to use certain techniques to make it look like we're reading minds, even though we're not.
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It used to be that you could do these nuggets of a movie and it would attach itself in terms of credibility to your work and the style of work that you did, that people would be interested and curious about you and your work as an actor.
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One of the difficulties in bringing about change in an organization is that you must do so through the persons who have been most successful in that organization, no matter how faulty the system or the organization is. To such persons, you see, it is the best of all possible organizations, because look who was selected by it ad look who succeeded most in it. Yet, these are the very people through whom we must bring about improvements.
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Most filmmakers aren't very interested in history. They worry constantly that people will be bored.
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A lot of people have a lot to gain from peddling scare stories about cyber warfare.
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When you check into a hotel, they don't need to know your name and address; they just need to know that the bill will be paid. People should ask questions.
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I think more and more people want to live alone. You can be a couple without being in each other's pockets. I don't see why you have to share the same bathroom.
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For me going to war offers me the ability to write about apparently very alien, sometimes hated or despised people, who've been objectified in a way that restores their humanity. Hopefully for my readers, that denies them the ability to objectify them. I think that's the point. If you can do that, that's a good thing.
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I'm an actor - it's not brain surgery. If I do my job right, people won't ask for their money back.
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I really didn't know how people were going to react to 'Magic Mike' because there hasn't been a movie like it.
