People Quotes
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This still bothered me, anyway, because where were these people going to go on Monday morning.
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If you believe in your art, and you love what you do, that energy will go out, and people will respond.
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Trying to stop people from learning, sharing, and loving is a losing game because it means working against God and the plotline of God's universe.
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There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.
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Compliment people wherever you go. Praise every single thing you see. Be a ray of sunshine to everyone you meet.
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When we can communicate from the inside out, we're talking directly to the part of the brain that controls behavior, and then we allow people to rationalize it with the tangible things we say and do. This is where gut decisions come from.
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People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.
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There are people who leave and people who know how to be left.
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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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People with a lot of theological study and no prayer life are dangerous... and not in a good way.
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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.
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...if you expect people to try to do things your way, you're going to have to give some hints as to what that way is.
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I need to make an okay living. The people who work for us need to. But after you make a comfortable living, how much more do you need? It's like I make a joke about nerd values, because I'm very much in the rich nerd tradition. And you know, we say, like, hey, people pay us for this stuff, like programming. You know, what else do we need?
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Nobody has to lose for me to succeed and that is a unique job. Everybody wins, horse wins, people win, I win.
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I know a lot of actors who started out as musicians and have very successful careers as actors, but most people don't know them as musicians.
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For the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the impeccably Tory, slavishly conformist Beckham. The Reds are no longer the Bolsheviks. Nobody serious about political change can shirk the fact that the game has to be abolished. And any political outfit that tried it on would have about as much chance of power as the chief executive of BP has in taking over from Oprah Winfrey.
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People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are often very unaware that they do not have one-tenth of the knowledge of all of the average persons put together. In this situation, for the intelligentsia to impose their notions on ordinary people is essentially to impose ignorance on knowledge.
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Maybe that is why young people make success. They don't know enough.
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Most people define greatness through wealth and popularity and position in the corner office. But what I call everyday greatness comes from character and contribution.
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If you were to write down all the possible ways to motivate people to do better work, friendly praise would have to come near the head of your list.
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As I get older, I'm more relaxed and less concerned with what people think of me.
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I didn't know any gay people in my childhood.
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I respect a lot of people I don't agree with.
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You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible.
