People Quotes
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There are a lot of really valuable services that are always pushing you to communicate with other people. But there are relatively few services that are about helping you be the person you want to be and fulfilling your ambitions.
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My favourite moment from the Oscars was when Brando didn't attend and sent a Native American woman to talk about Wounded Knee. She delivered a very unpopular and lengthy monologue about the injustice for indigenous people in North America. It was one of the greatest moments in American television.
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I think that Shakespeare himself raided fairy tales and chronicle writers, and he always looked to people who worked in the mythic genres, whether it was folk tales or popular novels.
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I was painfully shy when I was a kid. I always thought when most people were born, part of the toolkit was teaching you how to relate to other people - and it was just left out of my toolkit.
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I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.
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People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.
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People do ask me for advice for some reason. And I'll just kind of pose it back to them and let them answer on their own. I never like to give my advice 'cause I don't want them to come back and 'You were wrong! You ruined my life!' so it's more about 'Hey, this is what you just told me. What does that sound like to you?'
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I've received a lot of compliments. People come right up to me on the street. They recognize me.
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When you're with real people, you don't have to be with virtual people.
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A mind wishing to benefit other people and other sentient beings is the very basis of peace and happiness.
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Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.
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The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to... bare the secrets of government and inform the people.
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I think a writer is not an ideal husband... Writers tend to get off into their own heads and not notice the people that they're living with, or they get irritable with the people that they're living with when the people insist on being noticed.
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People are hurting and looking for answers. The Gospel gives us hope.
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You can only confiscate the wealth that exists at a given moment. You cannot confiscate future wealth - and that future wealth is less likely to be produced when people see that it is going to be confiscated.
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We live in a culture that expects instantaneous gratification for everything, and the web has only enhanced that in many ways. It empowers in many ways, but it also makes people believe 'I should have everything right now.'
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Well, I don't think just because people are in a relationship that they're happy. I don't think relationships necessarily make people happy. You just are happy or you're not happy.
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If you can really laugh at yourself loud and hard every time you fall, people will think you're drunk.
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Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.
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People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.
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When you start a memoir, you think, 'I'm going to blast all the people who were mean to me.' And then you start writing, and you go, actually, it's so much more fun to say nice things about people who were kind and generous to you.
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Bored people looked for drama and caused trouble.
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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.
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Albrecht's Law - Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity.
