People Quotes
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The women's choice of footwear doesn't speak for their most important inner life, but rather it tells a story - this is an opportunity to express themselves. I think the thing that's most compelling about other people is when you don't look like you're trying to dress like your friend, colleague, neighbor, or anything else. That's a very arresting and exciting and compelling quality to possess - not everybody has the courage to walk out the door feeling like themselves, but once they do, it's thrilling to witness.
Sarah Jessica Parker
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I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good.
Sarah Vowell
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It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.
David Bowie
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The only people who do plays in LA are people who can't get jobs in TV shows.
William H. Macy
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I think people love this idea of leaving a message for the future. I was always fascinated by the idea of time capsules.
Rick Smolan
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For now, I'm just going to keep doing the work and hope I don't get fired. If people want to put me up on their walls, I'll love it.
Ryan Gosling
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Why was it that, sometimes, you needed to see people closest to you as others saw them to remember how fantastic they were? Why couldn't you always remember that?
Elizabeth Noble
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I knew I wanted to be in show business so I took the path of least resistance. I loved comedy. But you never know you are funny until people laugh. It's just what I was interested in. I could make people laugh, I guess, but doing it at school and doing it onstage are very different things.
Steve Martin
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I could never teach people to be philosophers - and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them.
Bill Mollison
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I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more to say.
Sarah Zettel
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Someday you'll find someone special again. People who've been in love once usually do. It's in their nature.
Nicholas Sparks
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A great leader will never sacrifice the people for the numbers.
Simon Sinek
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How could they say that my religion, Islam was a 'race hate' religion after all the plunder and enslavement and domination of my people by white Christians in the name of white supremacy?
Muhammad Ali
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Allow God to continually soften your heart so that it beats for what his heart beats for - people.
Christine Caine
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All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some point in our lives. In fact, if the worst thing you have ever done is speed ten miles over the speed limit on the freeway, you have put yourself and others at more risk of harm than someone smoking marijuana in the privacy of his or her living room. Yet there are people in the United States serving life sentences for first-time drug offenses, something virtually unheard of anywhere else in the world.
Michelle Alexander
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Most people, in the end, really are all on their own.
Nova Ren Suma
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People kept asking me, 'When are you singing again?' so I kept doing it. It was that simple.
Harry Dean Stanton
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The longer it takes to explain value, the more people think you don't have any.
Garrison Wynn
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And, you know, money is - the money edge is really dangerous to democracy. Because what you have right now - people have said to me that, look, you'll always be outspent, so how can you ever win?
Richard Trumka
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All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people.
Ethel Waters
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Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Some people say well we need a change. Hillary Clinton is been around a long, she sure has, and she's sure been worth every single year she's put into making people's lives better.
Bill Clinton
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The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.
Stephen Covey
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The only people who know about me are people who would know about me.
Sarah Vowell