People Quotes
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I did find New Zealand similar to Ireland. The people, obviously. I found that, ironically, although these two countries were very far away from each other, their humor was so similar and their outlook on things was quite similar as well.
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I think it's probably true that creative people are touched by melancholy more than the average person, and to the extent that delving into that shadow world produces good work, I'm all for it. But I think you have to be able to step back from the work, and say, "Look how miserable I felt. Look how beautifully I wrote about it. Now I'm going to get an iced coffee and chat with a friend." Writing should be a way out of despair.
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A lot of people listening to music now don't listen to the songs or lyrics at all. They just go, "Good tones..." and that's it.
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I'm a self-loathing slide player. Some people like the way I play slide - I hate it.
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Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.
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People aren't born racist.
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As an actor, there's very little you can do if people don't want to see you. Just getting yourself into the room to audition is tough.
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There are times when you should listen to what people say about you, but also a lot of times you just don't need to listen so much. Don't worry so much and just go. Unless you're, like, in danger, and then don't. And then run, girl.
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People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years.
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I believed that we had to answer the question: Why are we doing this? And it wasn’t until we started to articulate, internally as an organisation, that it was about using the Games to inspire young people to participate in sports that we each understood what we had to do.
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As the savages whom we have instructed are ready when left to themselves to return to their ancestral mode of life, so our young people quickly forget what they have learned at school, and sink back into the commonplace existence from which a right education would have saved them.
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I've gotten to work with people like Kristin Chenoweth and Chita Rivera... Seeing their process is so interesting. Seeing that these people aren't immortal - that they go through the same motions as we do and ask for feedback and break down scenes... They have to work, too, and that's really exciting to see.
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They are truly the sweetest people on earth.
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It's hard running for office when people can't say your name.
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Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for justice - those things were very, very front-burner in my childhood, as were the ideas of working for peace and if you have more than you need, then you share it with people who don't.
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There are so many bright people who just need an opportunity to help others and pay it forward.
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Unfortunately, there's a lot of people in high places who understand the science but don't like where the policy leads them: too much government control.
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People don't know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life.
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Don’t wait for people to be kind, show them how.
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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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Jobs are the main channel through which people share in - or are left out of - economic growth.
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...as absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television.
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I find pop art really offensive because it's taking a piece of popular culture and putting it somewhere where people can't see it.
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It was an interesting experience because we got to share and spend time with other people who have cancer stories. It was definitely somewhat of an emotional experience.
