People Quotes
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I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!
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Often we are caught in a mental trap of seeing enormously successful people and thinking they are where they are because they have some special gift. Yet a closer look shows that the greatest gift that extraordinarily successful people have over the average person is their ability to get themselves to take action.
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In 1957, when I was in second grade, black children integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. We watched it on TV. All of us watched it. I don't mean Mama and Daddy and Rocky. I mean all the colored people in America watched it, together, with one set of eyes.
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It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man.
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There's a certain class of people who will do you in and then remain completely mystified by the depth of your pain.
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I'm lucky; people write scripts for me.
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If we don't rebuild that connection with people we will really find even bigger gaps, because our gap on inequality is not just economic.
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This is how most people live: alive, but not conscious; conscious but not aware; aware, but intermittently.
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Nothing is inevitable in life. People make choices, and those choices have results, and we all live with the results.
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Why can't people just say they were moved? Why do they have to say it's sappy?
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We're going to try to get as many people in the stands as possible. Make it a game-day environment.
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The people I admire are those who keep on producing and working and going on.
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The primary goal of collectivism - of socialism in Europe and contemporary liberalism in America - is to enlarge governmental supervision of individuals' lives. This is done in the name of equality. People are to be conscripted into one large cohort, everyone equal (although not equal in status or power to the governing class) in their status as wards of a self-aggrandizing government.
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Why should I be depressed? I've got enough money. I've got a job. People like me. There is no to be depressed. That's at stupid as saying there is no reason to have asthma or there is no reason to have the measles. You know you've got it. It's there. It's not about reason.
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The responsibility of the company is to help the people, grow as people. If we can do that, then the company will grow as a company.
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I've always had individual friends, but I didn't find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my midtwenties.
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It's very difficult to speak to a large group of people these days and not offend someone.
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For people like me, I think it is more about, 'When do people give you an opportunity?' rather than you deciding about when you want to make a debut. If I had a chance, I would have come as a child artist in this industry.
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I am deeply interested in this work. I am anxious to encourage the people to press on in securing their genealogies and after doing so in laboring in our temples.
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I don't mind fans coming up in a friendly, respectful way. That's all part of the fun of being a top tennis player. But if people take pictures without permission, particularly if my children are in the shot, I feel uncomfortable.
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My show was revolutionary, ground-breaking. When I came on the scene, people were not doing a thing.
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Relationships end, but they don't end your life. But people do often spending more time finding out about failed relationships than finding successful ones.
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You think I have more than most people dream of? What other people dream of doesn't matter. I always had less than I ever dreamt of. All I ever dreamt of was family. A father and a mother. Most people don't even need to dream of such luxuries, they take them for granted. That is what I used to dwell on, alone in my bedroom. I dwelt as all children do, on the injustice. Injustice is the most terrible thing in the world, Oliver. Everything that is evil springs from it and only a cheap soul can abide it without anger.
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Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year sends out cards praying for "Peace on Earth."
