People Quotes
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I wouldn't say making psychedelic music is my focus. That's not the modus operandi for Tame Impala. It's about making music that moves people.
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I think we still do have a PR problem in the sense that these institutions portray themselves quite often as a museum without the contemporary wing. For a young cutting-edge person, why would you get into that sort of business, which is very clearly geared towards dead or almost dead people?
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To be extraordinarily happy and to have no concern for money drives some people nuts.
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I've been all over the world. I love New York, I love Paris, San Francisco, so many places. But there's no place like New Orleans. It's got the best food. It's got the best music. It's got the best people. It's got the most fun stuff to do.
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People are mostly happiest when they think they're just about to get the thing they want most. Before and after, they're all monsters.
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I was once told that I had become too confident and that it made me less likeable. Many successful people will get this at some point, because the people who haven't followed a similar path can be threatened by someone who has and is unabashed about it.
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I continue to make paintings of people and their moments in our time because I am of that time. Out of that I hope to make pictures that are timeless.
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I am not sure that I am that smart. I think we work harder. When I was at university, there were a lot of smarter people than me, and they seem not to have done quite so well.
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I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.
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Most people when they're walking are thinking about where they have to go and what they have to do. But that removes us from happiness.
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The night was ordinary. It usually is, I think, when your life changes. Most people aren't doing anything special when the carefully placed pieces of their life break apart.
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People are either enamored with me or wonder if they can take me.
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In the past, people have looked at photos as a record of memory. The focus has been on the past tense. With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense.
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In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organization to operate more effectively.
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I don't like lifts and will walk up 20 flights of stairs if I have to. Crowded rooms make me uncomfortable, too, although I can sing to a stadium full of thousands of people no bother.
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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We want to achieve a new and better order of society: in this new and better society there must be neither rich nor poor; all will have to work. Not a handful of rich people, but all the working people must enjoy the fruits of their common labour. Machines and other improvements must serve to ease the work of all and not to enable a few to grow rich at the expense of millions and tens of millions of people. This new and better society is called socialist society.
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It's the governments that create the problems. People are fun; people get along. People in Iran really love Americans. There is no problem between us.
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Sometimes we think, "We're the only people who see it this way," but that's really not the case.
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I think that when we have a better educated society, when there is less violence in our cities, when people get back into the workforce and have the opportunity to take care of themselves and their families - that for me really is the kind of success and the kind of America that I think most of us still want, we aspire to.
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About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
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In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.
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No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.
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What's interesting is that I get messages from people who think I'm gone. I have messages like "Tony, we're so sorry. We loved you!"
