People Quotes
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Short term, the most important thing is to put people back to work ... If they're working, that means they're paying taxes, that means that they're buying goods and services - and the economy, instead of being on a downward spiral, starts back up on an upward spiral.
Barack Obama
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While Obama's economic policies have failed to spur growth, our anti-poverty programs have long failed to promote upward mobility and move people from welfare to work.
Charles Boustany
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Once my ears were open to hearing mentions of 'Shark Tank', I was surprised by how many people in our world, even in our industry, tech and finance, loved the show.
Chris Sacca
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It is astonishing that gay and lesbian Americans are still treated as second-class citizens. I am confident that, very soon, the laws of this nation will reflect the basic truth that gay and lesbian people - like all human beings - are born equal in dignity and rights.
George Clooney
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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.
Margaret Mead
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People who believe a problem can be solved tend to get busy solving it.
William Raspberry
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I love it when people yell at me about the environment and then I tell 'em I'm burning 90% cleaner than them.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
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from The One and Only Official Mr. Gum Official Glossary That Tells You What Words Mean by Explaining Them Using Other Words: Cups of tea: People in England are always drinking cups of tea. "Oh let's have a cup of tea " they say. "That will prove we are English and not American." Sometimes American people try to have cups of tea to pretend they are English but forget it We can always tell you are faking it
Andy Stanton
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Key relationships can become threatened when you start exploring your own path. This is true when it comes to relationships with parents, mentors, and bosses. It's not always true, but many times these important people in our lives feel threatened in some way by our independence from them. There is an inner conflict that comes with exploring your own voice.
Chip Espinoza
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We as fighters always want to fight the best possible opponents and the best fights. We want the fans and media to be excited about the fights that we have. I now believe that this is a big fight and people want to see it, I'm not sure that was the case a few years back.
Miguel Cotto
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In this time when a citizenry applauds the liberation of a country as it lives in fear of its own freedom, when people all over the country fear reprisal if they use their right to free speech, it is time to get angry. It is time to get fierce.
Tim Robbins
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Most medications don't work effectively for a lot people.
Anne Wojcicki
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People have mistaken my break, I took a break from competition, it was because of mental problems, and because I was not agreeing with Performance Enhancing Drugs. I put the things on pause for a while, but I didn't retire.
Georges St-Pierre
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In all of nature structure determines function. Yet many people consider the marathoner and football linebacker all to be just one composite human being, an athlete. The body must be used to determine its role in sport. 'My aim is to develop every individual according to his best potential, protect him from false ambition, the desire to be someone he never can be and, more important, never should be.'
William Herbert Sheldon
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A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.
Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
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It's especially important to make sure all clients are happy. You don't want to get stuck into a corner and for people to think you now only have one look.
Coco Rocha
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Now that the black experience isn't viewed as box-office death, people are catching up to untapped auteurs.
Jordan Peele
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It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
Albert Camus
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Smart people don't learn... because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing.
Chris Argyris
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I get emails every day from people saying, "I never heard your music. I don't know anything about you. I just happened to watch this on Netflix. I hope you're feeling better. More power to you." It just shows you, I don't know, how generous and wonderful people can be.
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
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I think all people's lives are controlled by their decisions. You look at people's lives - it's not their conditions, it's their decisions. So everybody has a choice and every moment in your life you're making decisions.
Anthony Robbins
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Really, we're just taking people and shifting them from taking photos anyway to taking them on 'Instagram'.
Kevin Systrom
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In Scotland, when people congregate, they tend to argue and discuss and reason; in Orkney, they tell stories.
George Mackay Brown
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I'm the leadoff hitter, it's my job to lead this team. I know people say the way I go is how the Mets go, so I'll do whatever it takes.
Jose Reyes