People Quotes
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People in Israel would write in a high register, they wouldn't write colloquial speech. I do a special take on colloquial speech. When I started writing, I thought [the language] was telling the story of this country: old people in a young nation, very religious, very conservative, very tight-assed, but also very anarchistic, very open-minded. It's all in the language, and that's one thing that doesn't translate.
Etgar Keret
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People who avoid all criticism fail. It's destructive criticism we need to avoid, not criticism in all forms.
Tim Ferriss
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People are voting for Conservatives in greater numbers, but it's not translating into Conservative seats.
Allan Gregg
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Some people get certainty by working harder and saying I'm going to master something. Some people get certainty by lowering their expectations, going 'it will never work. And they lose their dreams, but they get their needs. The needs are not like goals. They're not like belief systems that are built into you.
Anthony Robbins
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We want to make sure people know deeply about the trans community and deeply about Black Lives Matter so that people can act in solidarity.
Van Jones
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People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on.
John Malkovich
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A diet counselor once told me that all overweight people are angry with their mothers and channel their frustrations into overeating. So I guess that means all thin people are happy, calm, and have resolved their Oedipal entanglements.
Wendy Wasserstein
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In them one can see the spontaneous-and often aesthetic-expression of a people reflected, not in a gilt-framed drawing room mirror, but in an honest glass held up to the face of a nation.
Winthrop Rockefeller
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Most people make the mistake of over-training the biceps and under-training the triceps.
Harley Pasternak
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People cannot live by lending money to one another.
John Ruskin
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Let the people be led by the revelations of Jesus Christ, and the finger of God will be made manifest before them day by day in their progress to eternal happiness; for this is the privilege of the faithful.
Brigham Young
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It is interesting just generationally that you see that people are much more comfortable, and that's part of life now for this next generation of actors and just people in the world. But for those of us who were living when it didn't exist, being in social media feels like the last thing you want to do.
Natalie Portman
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Trans people are not a monolith.
Janet Mock
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The family is inclusive of not just your genetic family, but the people that you meet along the way.
Jane Seymour
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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.
Harry Connick, Jr.
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There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
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I'm not really sure that I have the same definition of things as other people. Like, when people talk about being "engaged" with the audience, I'm not exactly sure what they mean.
Dan Bejar
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Part of me worries about upsetting people, because we all have perceptions about Olympic champions.
Bradley Wiggins
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We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love- all kinds- was really about.
Sarah Dessen
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If we can implant in our people the Christian virtues which we sum up in the word character, and, at the same time, give them a knowledge of the line which should be drawn between voluntary action and governmental compulsion in a democracy, and of what can be accomplished within the stern laws of economics, we will enable them to retain their freedom, and at the same time, make them worthy to be free.
Winthrop W. Aldrich
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If you're like most people, you've always wanted something better for your life - it's really how we are designed - we're supposed to want improvement, and we're designed to climb upward. But most people stop at that - the WANT. They rarely take any action that actually begins moving their dreams into true reality!
Bob Proctor
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I would tell people to enjoy the present moment and the journey rather than the outcome.
Judith Hill
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I don't tend to warm too well to people that tell me how I'm supposed to think. So, my life in Hollywood - I'm afraid I was destined to be a Republican.
Kelsey Grammer
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I don't think people realizemilie-autumn-devils-carnivale that, once you turn your director's cut in, it's no longer yours.
Darren Lynn Bousman