People Quotes
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As technical people, we are apt to be preoccupied with scores, not competence...
Neil Postman
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I still think it's weird that people are interested in what I like and what I represent.
Antoni Porowski
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People who believe a problem can be solved tend to get busy solving it.
William Raspberry
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The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
Milan Kundera
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You are only as good as the people you work with, I think.
Josh Lawson
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With a sitcom, everyday you do a run through, and people are judging you, and the scripts are being changed nightly, nightly, nightly.
Amy Sherman-Palladino
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It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I'm going to be so normal that when people look up normal in the dictionary, my name will be there.
Wendy Mass
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Few things are as stimulating as other people's calamities observed from a safe distance.
George Will
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You can fight against people, and fight to the death, but ... can't control the world.
Mariah Carey
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It's just people should realize that the celebrity aspect of being an actor is very rarely enjoyable for people like me who would always rather go unnoticed and disappear into the crowd.
Winona Ryder
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I kind of knew that there were a lot of people that didn't go to church and normally wouldn't listen to people, but they would come and listen to me talk.
Eric Thomas
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The reason I entered politics was a belief that the people of this country - having achieved so much that was good and noble in our past - had the potential to do amazing things in the future.
Michael Gove
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It is nothing but a kind of a microcosmos of communism - all that psychiatry', rumbled Pnin ... 'Why not leave their private sorrow to people? Is sorrow not, one asks, the only thing in the world people really possess?
Vladimir Nabokov
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Sometimes people are primed to hear in a certain way. When a word like braggadocious suddenly appears, it's like, 'What, is he just making that up?'
Ben Zimmer
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For many years I thought, "Well, I need to know a lot more to direct." But I looked around and watched all the people I know directing and thought, "No. I just need to know what I want it to be." Then there will be a lot of people to help me get it to there, especially Bobby Bukowski, he's a brilliant cinematographer.
Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal
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My people must be tried in all things, that they may be prepared to receive the glory that I have for them.
Brigham Young
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When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.
Hector Hugh Munro
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If we Americans are to learn from our mistakes, from the flailing, ineffective way we, as a nation, conducted the war on terror after the attacks of 9/11, and from the way we have failed to make our case to the great moderate mass of peace-loving people at the heart of the Muslim world, we need to listen to Greg Mortenson. I did, and it has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life.
David Oliver Relin
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Sovereigns always see with pleasure a taste for the arts of amusement and superfluity, which do not result in the exportation of bullion, increase among their subjects. They very well know that, besides nourishing that littleness of mind which is proper to slavery, the increase of artificial wants only binds so many more chains upon the people.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.
Nigel Kneale
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I think once you start eating people you should stop claiming to be a vegetarian, even if you only eat bad people.
James Nicoll
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Fear is the loneliest feeling. You can be in a throng of people, but if you're afraid, you're on your own.
Michelle Paver
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I don't have a problem with being black in a white country or being with my people.
Tina Turner