People Quotes
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Before I even knew what stand up was, I tried to make people laugh at school because that was how I made friends, so I think that's how I got drawn into comedy and obviously I was just some kid at school being silly, so the first time I saw a professional comedian and how smooth and funny the person was I totally got into standup and I would say obviously Richard Pryor was the guy. He's the greatest of all time and then George Carlin, Sam Kinison, Bill Cosby. It's so weird to bring up his name now but leaving out his off-stage antics... you could learn a lot from him.
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I say the elite looks out of touch because it's kind of saying; look we'll manage all this for you. You know, we know best. We'll sort it all out for you. And then because people believe that doesn't meet their case for change and they want real change, social media and the way the relationship between people can come into a sense of belonging very quickly, that then is itself a revolutionary phenomenon. You see this around the world.
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I would like the film to make people think about the place of women in the world - the advances and setbacks that they have experienced these past years in terms of their freedom.
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People don't really absorb everything they read or hear. They just look at it quickly, and then they choose to remember what they want to remember.
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Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.
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But you people do not understand me, and I am afraid you never will.
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Even though Star Wars is easily read as feminist for its time - and even for now, with Princess Leia's role - people wouldn't make a movie like that in 2016, where the guys are mostly the tough ones, and the women aren't in positions of authority.
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Protests all day today in Los Angeles - I cried the whole time - it felt powerful to be with so many people who want better for the world
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Open mind all the way. Because people have had eyewitness accounts, they've seen things, they swear they've seen things, and I tend to believe in people rather than - maybe I'm a little naive, but my optimistic outlook on life is to sort of be positive and take everyone at face value.
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When I said on national television I still struggle, a reparative therapist called me and said if you'll come into therapy with me I can cure you of your temptations and attractions 100 percent. And then there are the offers of using homosexual pornography within the therapeutic process to help people understand why they're struggling.
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I've always held to the belief, though, that people who do too much acting training always look like they're acting, you know?
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We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty.
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The real difficulty for smaller films, when they're made independently and it's time to go for a distributor, sometimes if it's a tough film and the people who financed it need their money back right away, it's much easier and lucrative to take a DVD deal.
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I hope white brothers and sisters read this book.Tears we cannot stop and engage with it, but other white people have a better chance of speaking more directly to the white folk they know, because they're less likely to be subject to ridicule. They're insiders, so to speak.
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We are ordinarily so indifferent to people that when we have invested one of them with the possibility of giving us joy, or suffering, it seems as if he must belong to some other universe, he is imbued with poetry.
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I'm a people person. I never get tired of watching people, especially young people.
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People take in their car for servicing and checkups every few months without complaint. Why shouldn’t they take similar care of their bodies?
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I do feel like a loner but I think it's because I look at things differently than other people.
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I think more than anything, people just want to be understood.
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Putting seven people in orbit should not cost more than flying a commercial jet around earth.
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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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The self-prepared dinner is a great time killer for lonely people and as much time should be spent on it as possible.
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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
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Leaders may inspire, but only when the people decide to act does the leader's vision become a movement.
