People Quotes
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Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions; they've replaced passions with excitement.
Saul Bellow
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A lot of my books deal with very controversial issues that most people often don't want to talk about, issues that, in my country, are more likely to get put under the carpet than get discussed. And when you talk about moral conundrums, about shades of gray, what you're doing is asking the people who want the world to be black and white to realize instead that maybe it's all right if it isn't. I know you'll learn something picking up my books, but my goal as a writer is not to teach you but to make you ask more questions.
Steven Tyler Aerosmith
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Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himself. And most people never get there. In his own pure individuality a man surpasses his father and mother, and is utterly unknown to them.
D. H. Lawrence
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The Bernie Sanders campaign said you might be suppressing the vote by doing this 'cause people in those states might decide to stay home, that their vote doesn't count.
Terry Gross
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I am not actually a landscape photographer. I am a photographer of living breathing people, of workers.
Ara Guler
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I go into every meeting, into every room and for every speech understanding the standard deviation, the Bell Curve. I know there are about 10-15 percent of people in the room, who say, "I've been trying to say this for years. Finally. I agree. Yes, yes, yes." I know there are about 15 percent of the people in the room who think I'm an idiot, who think I don't know what I'm talking about, who think I'm naive or I have oversimplified everything. The majority who are open to the ideal.
Simon Sinek
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Everyone should have the right to go off and do their music or do their books. The people who are in the position to censor they're really not down to reality where that certain artists are coming from.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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The smartest people in the world are not in charge, they work for the action takers.
Garrison Wynn
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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.
Sandra Cisneros
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In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.
Lao Tzu
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It's amazing how many people even today use a computer to do something you can do with a pencil and paper in less time.
Richard Feynman
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People don't really bother me as much as you might think.
Tiger Woods
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It sure is boring to be around people who are in character all the time. I always find it's closer to mental illness than acting excellence.
William H. Macy
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Let's remember that our leadership is defined not just by our defense against threats, but by the enormous opportunities to do good and promote understanding around the globe to forge greater cooperation, to expand new markets, to free people from fear and want. And no one is better positioned to take advantage of those opportunities than America.
Barack Obama
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I think it's a privilege to be able to fly to somewhere where people want to see my show.
Bill Burr
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People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection and love. and Nature has been defeated in the name of development.
Yasunari Kawabata
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Your take on things is what is either going to make you somebody people talk about or no.
Steven Soderbergh
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When people think about Michigan, they usually think about cars.
Sander Levin
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I take notes like some people take drugs.
Tim Ferriss
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There's a huge redistribution away from workers to people who use immigrants. ... That's what people are arguing about.
George J. Borjas
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It feels surreal to know that people out there know me, know my songs, and give me so much love.
Armaan Malik
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Everyone has blind spots, and even the brightest people are no exceptions.
Li Lu
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I have a lot of admiration for people willing to face the public, but I'd prefer not to.
Geoff Mulgan
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Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.
Douglas Coupland