People Quotes
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The Partition of Palestine is illegal. It will never be recognized .... Jerusalem was and will for ever be our capital. Eretz Israel will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And for Ever.
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I think it's a privilege to be able to fly to somewhere where people want to see my show.
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You can tell a lot about people from the kind of books they steal.
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People are mostly happiest when they think they're just about to get the thing they want most. Before and after, they're all monsters.
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We have broken the cycle of dependency. People have found out they're better off working.
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I hate amateurs. I hate unprofessional people. There are enough people who can do jobs decently that there's no reason that people who cannot do them decently [should] pretend to be great at it.
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I have a lot of people I think are important to me, a lot of different causes I like to talk about also.
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The government of the enlightened king? His achievements blanket the world but appear not to be his own doing. His transforming influence touches the ten thousand things but the people do not depend on him. With him there is no promotion or praise - he lets everything find its own enjoyment. He takes his stand on what cannot be fathomed and wanders where there is nothing at all.
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The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns.
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I try not to lie to people - the only way to control the way you're perceived is to tell the truth.
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We spend billions on international aid annually, but we don't find ways to connect people to dignified work. I realized that if we don't think about ways to harness private capital to solve problems, we're leaving large amounts of money on the table and doing ourselves a disservice.
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Saturday night is perfect for writers because other people have "plans.
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Economists' advice is something like patent medicine - people know it is largely manufactured by quacks and that a good percentage of the time it won't work, but they continue to buy the brand whose flavor they like.
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I talk about my team a lot. I feel like people are the most important part of the puzzle.
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If you put yourself around people that want to be productive, that want to make the most of what they have, then the sky's the limit.
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I'm fed up with the idiots... the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies.
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I know that 'The Accident' is not a completely accurate reflection of the reality of the book publishing world, which, like nearly any other business, consists mostly of people sitting in small offices staring at computer screens or reading or trying to stay awake in meetings.
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The only thing I have no control over is the politics that goes on within the record company. It's always been the same, but it's far tougher now, because record companies are run by financial people; before, they were run by creative people.
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If you call a hundred dollars but have a chance to win $10,000, those are excellent odds if you are at a table with people who have two aces or two kings. If you catch a flop you will get all their chips. I just play them because there is value.
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The age of the earth was thus increased from a mere score of millions [of years] to a thousand millions and more, and the geologist who had before been bankrupt in time now found himself suddenly transformed into a capitalist with more millions in the bank than he knew how to dispose of ... More cautious people, like myself, too cautious, perhaps, are anxious first of all to make sure that the new [radioactive] clock is not as much too fast as Lord Kelvin's was too slow.
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You always make a film with the hope that all types of people will want to see your work and that it doesn't matter about your color, but unfortunately it still does.
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People think I'm into positive thinking. I'm not a positive thinking guy. I'm into the truth. I'm a hunter of human excellence.
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I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.
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I just feel as though it's become a situation where people have manifested this caricature of who I am, and they act as if there's no real person inside of it.
