People Quotes
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Young people are often asked, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' and given advice about how to lead meaningful adult lives, but where's the encouragement to lead meaningful lives right now?
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Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.
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Environmentalists and clean energy champions should stop telling people that we are working for "sustainability," which nobody understands.
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Conflict is drama, and how people deal with conflict shows you the kind of people they are.
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But mad people never die. That's a well-known fact. They've nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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There is a tendency to want to isolate a little bit, from people that might look at me from a fan position, because it's hard to be a real person around them, and I really want that when I'm not out on tour and in that sort of public eye.
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A lot of people can't be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.
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The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
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I'd like to say it is only average people who revel in the mistakes of others.
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I dream of a peaceful world. Music is the best means I have to work on that dream. Each time I have the opportunity to play, it is another chance to tell the truth. Life on the planet has come down to such an acute degree of ADD it is terrifying. We are constantly being bombarded from all directions with information - most of it useless that serves to bifurcate the mind. I am afraid that people are going to go from birth to death and never know they were here or why they were here.
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She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.
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Getting up on stage and being able to make people feel like their lives are slightly more special than they realize is my only talent, so that's what I use. I use my talent.
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I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
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At first, I was scared that if I claimed I modeled, people would be like, 'What?'
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There are always people that are misbehaving.
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Certainly, if we believe in democracy and democratic systems, when Benazir Bhutto failed to pass any legislation, really, at all in her first two years in government during her first term and in fact had a tenure that was marked not only by gross corruption but by human rights abuses, that should have been a time for people to say, "Well, OK, we've given you an opportunity and you haven't bettered the institutions, you haven't strengthened the democratic cause - we may not vote you back."
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Perhaps the idea of money as a cement to solidify our existence and prevent it from dissolving, together with the people who were dear to us, endured.
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I think it's very important to allow people into Ted Kennedy. Thousands of people lined the streets the day of his funeral.
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I honestly always really try to get people to share their feelings. I always say to everyone that communication is key.
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I always try to be a trend setter. That's what I always tell young people when I'm giving them advice. To go with their heart and don't follow the trends.
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It will be up to each of you to make sure that young people, African Americans, Latinos and women who powered our victory in 2008 stand together once again.
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I'm a music lover and I hate to hate on any music because people are just doing their best.
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When the Killers first came out, a lot of people thought we were English, and it touched a chord in me, because my roots are very American.
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My father was the king of the joke-tellers. I was so impressed as a child watching him, holding people in rapt attention.
