People Quotes
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Even when I was Archbishop of Wales and working with new bishops, I used to say, not realising quite how true it was, 'One of the things you will do as a bishop is disappoint people'.
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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.
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The American people are not uniquely, but characteristically the most spontaneously generous in the world and you're seeing that all over this country in Web sites of charitable organizations that are crashing because of the overwhelming desire on the part of ordinary people to help out.
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The fact that creative powers come from an area of the mind that seems to be independent of the conscious will, and often emerge with a good deal of emotional disturbance in their wake, provides the chief analogy between prophecy and the arts... Some people pursue wholeness and integration, others get smashed up, and fragments are rescued from the smash of an intensity that the wholeness and integration people do not reach.
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I knew I would hate my best memory because it would prove that people could fake love or that love could end or worst of all, love was not powerful enough to change a life.
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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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No matter what you do, people are going to expect you to be someone you’re not. But if you’re clever and lucky and work your butt off, then you get to be surrounded by people who expect you to be the person you wish you were.
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Sometimes it'll happen to people, that their self will stop coming through. And people will just cease to understand them.
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The people that matter to me the most are the people that are in my life. That's who I really learn from, and it's always a very personal kind of connection.
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People are rarely diabolic or bent enthusiastically on evil. As a rule, they are only weak; they cannot resist temptation and thus give way to their evil drives.
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Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options.
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People in my inner circle of loved ones - we're tight and I've never misjudged someone as far as I know; I can feel someone's intentions, I know their intentions before they probably are honest enough with themselves to know it, so that's my strength.
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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.
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I've always found credit isn't just something you take - it's something people give you when they see how hard you're working.
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I do feel pressure. I have always been able to surprise people because they didn't know to expect anything from me. And now people are starting to have expectations.
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I've never been involved with anyone who's set out to hurt people, to break legs. It is a bit of a dying art
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I wear wigs all the time on shows, and every day when I'm in public, at Dollywood. People say, 'How many wigs do you have?' And I say, 'Well, at least 365 because I wear at least one a day.'
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I think people just love to win.
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When you have the medical advances you think will they be available to everyone. Will they not just be for the rich world or even just the rich people and the rich world? Will they be for the world at large?
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I try to be kind and generous, and to give to people, and to do what I think God wants me to do.
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If it required some effort to go from today to tomorrow, some people would always remain in yesterday.
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I liked it when there was a certain amount of people who did not like what I was doing. If anything, I thought that was a positive thing.
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Acting is like sex: you either do it and don't talk about it, or you talk about it and don't do it. That's why I'm always suspicious of people who talk too much about either.
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I don't need art to tell me people are assholes. I can just go into the streets.
