People Quotes
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In those years, when I came to the States, people were always asking me why I didn't sing anymore. I'd tell them, 'I sing all around the world-Asia, Africa, Europe-but if you don't sing in the US, then you haven't really made it.' That's why I'll always be grateful to Paul Simon. He allowed me to bring my music back to my friends in this country.
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I discovered very early on that if you wanted a thing, you went for it - and you got it. Most people never go anywhere, or want anything - so they never get anything.
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Home's where the people you love are. It's about finding the things that matter to you, and holding on to them and taking care of them.
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I don't want to be one of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, so influential, and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distant memory.
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Don’t write to impress other people — impress yourself first!
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We are born intuitive, which is why for most people, their intuition is actually the source of their greatest suffering.
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It's so much easier for me to talk about my life in front of two thousand people than it is one-to-one. I'm a real defensive person, because if you were sensitive in my neighborhood you were something to eat.
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It's not my job to look good. It's my job to make other people look good.
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I think that is just about as dishonest as a person giving a bad interview. I despise people like that; they don't get two tries. It's all just sensation. It is always bullshit.
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I don't consider myself a racist, I don't hate other peoples, but I certainly want to preserve my own. And I think that's true of all people.
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I love animals because all they really want from you is love. Too bad that's even too much to ask for from some people.
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Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who "speak truth to power" but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power.
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People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it's not easily controlled.
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One of the people I've always wanted to emulate in pursuing that dream was Meryl Streep, in terms of the different types of roles she's been able to play and the number of different stories she's been able to tell.
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People around the world are confusing the therapeutic value of self-expression with permission to manipulate others with their wounds.
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I find many drawbacks of myself. But, each time when I visit Lourdes, I receive a lesson of reconciliation. When you see ill people or invalids around, you realize that it is a sin to complain!
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The only stuff we looked at were incidents for which there are a paper trail ... (and) everything we looked up was full of lies. (Winfrey said) the belief this book is changing the lives of people trumps the fact that maybe the story is a fake. You would expect somebody in her position would take the ethical stand.
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People don't go to the movies to get the news, people don't go to the movies to learn a lesson. People go to the movie to get an emotional experience.
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Appearing on the front page of the New York Times even given the state of papers today is still something that's seen by a lot of people.
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Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible.
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All through the nineties I met people. Crowds of people. Met and met and met, until it seemed that people were born and hastily grew up, just to be met.
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People are just up tight because the kids are having fun and they didn't have the same freedom.
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From day one, my mantra has been - and will continue to be - that as a government we were there to serve the people, not the other way around.
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I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.
