People Quotes
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Since early middle ages when people generally taking away the barbarity of their like, were pretty content. Although it was all an illicit contentment, what with the slave systems all over the world, in England especially, the peasants and the master, etc. People were incredibly content.
David Bowie
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Generally speaking, when people use the word fun, it's like a placeholder. You know, "How was your evening?" "Oh it was fun."
Ian Bogost
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There were a lot of missteps in the early days, but because we got in early we got to make more mistakes than other people.
Bill Gates
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People should be able to rise as hard, high as their hard work, their ambition, their talent will take them.
Hillary Clinton
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Because I have been a magician for many years, people have often asked me whether I ever have sawn a woman in half. I reply, Oh, yes I've sawn over seventy women in half in my lifetime, and I'm learning the second half of the trick now.
Raymond Smullyan
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I think I see myself differently than most people see me.
Syd
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It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits of past wisdom, or the enjoyment of present blessings, for visionary schemes of ideal perfection. It is the knowledge of the past, the actual infliction of the present, that has produced all changes, all innovations, and all improvements - not (as is pretended) the chimerical anticipation of possible advantages, but the intolerable pressure of long-established, notorious, aggravated, and growing abuses.
William Hazlitt
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When you tell other people to do stuff they don't know how to do, they tend to freak out.
Penn Jillette
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I'll invest my money in people.
Will Keith Kellogg
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Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.
Erica Jong
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Some of the things that I do, I think are very important and much more important than the radio show or the television show that I do or anything else that I do. I think right at the top of the list is the basic thing. And of course the basic thing is to hopefully stop people from killing anything. And to create a non-violent diet for themselves, because a non-violent world has roots in a non-violent diet.
Casey Kasem
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These are the people who are going to see the pictures in my museum.
Norton Simon
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The job of the governor of the state of Florida is to do what is in the best interest of the people of the state of Florida.
Andrew Gillum
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When, about fifteen years ago, I walked into Arshile's studio for the first time, the atmosphere was so beautiful that I got a little dizzy and when I came to, I was bright enough to take the hint immediately. If the bookkeepers think it necessary to make sure of where things and people came from, well then, I came from 36 Union Square. I am glad that it is about impossible to get away from his powerful influence.
Willem de Kooning
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Lillian shut her eyes briefly, as if she hoped when she opened them she would behold a world in which people never said ridiculous things.
Sarah Rees Brennan
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I've played for crowds as small as 30 people. As long as people want to see me play then I'll perform.
George Winston
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There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of this force when there is suffering, too much pain. Then suddenly, the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in extraordinary ways.
Mother Teresa
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We're making the music that the people are asking us for.
Bad Bunny
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A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.
Sherman Alexie
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There are people who don't like to use other films as research, but I love it.
Mark Bridges
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Swag is not about what you want people to think about you, its already knowing what they think about you.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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Why can't people just say they were moved? Why do they have to say it's sappy?
Casey Affleck
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I feel comfortable working with people who are secure in themselves and confident in what they do.
Romany Malco
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I want people to hear musicians like Joe Cuba. He has done things to whole masses of Puerto Rican people. The music is fantastic and important.
David Bowie