People Quotes
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When people used to ask me why I got involved with Hollywood films, I would say jokingly that it was for the health insurance.
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I mean I hate to be conspiratorial, but I mean how do you move that many people from Central America across Mexico and then into the United States without there being a fairly coordinated effort?
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I want to work with people who are good at what they do, and people who are passionate.
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Rocks are more co-operative than people.
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People say, like, "I love when you smile because part of your mouth goes up," then I never organically smile again.
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I am a great artist and I know it. It's because of what I am that I have endured so much suffering, so as to pursue my vocation, otherwise I would consider myself a rogue - which is what many people think I am, for that matter.
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If we build something great, like we have at Travelers Group so far, a whole host of people benefit.
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As society becomes more complex and opaque, as social processes seem more impersonal and autonomous, and as elites of 'experts' become more annoying, more people are tempted to think that some 'they' is manipulating 'us', using, among other dark arts, advertising.
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True confidence leaves no room for jealousy. When you know you are great, you have no need to hate.
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I've had people turn me down. Not all that many, but certainly it happens.
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I'm incredibly flattered when people tell me that my books helped them through high school. Because of my own experience, the thought that something I wrote might help someone who felt the way I did when I was a teen...that's huge. It awes me.
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Few people realize the number of things that are possible.
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I enjoy cooking for people I am close to.
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I really believe people should be paid for the work that they do.
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Sometimes when you don't care, people are attracted to that.
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Be. Good. To yourself, to other people, to everything you do. It's a norm of life by which people should try to live. Don't waste time. Be interesting and interested.
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Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country's British heritage.
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Technology is ruled by two types of people: those who manage what they do not understand, and those who understand what they do not manage.
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Some people, they've had a lot of fun, even if it was dumb fun and a shitty body of work.
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I'm going to work with Dan Clowes. After Charlie Kaufman, it's hard to fill up the gap. It's hard to find somebody who... A lot of writers, I can clearly see the desire of succeeding before the desire of expressing themselves. Sometimes people get upset when you want to be different. You were talking about "whimsical," which is a nice word. But sometimes they use the word "quirky" in the pejorative sense. I get frustrated, because they feel like I'm doing whatever I want, and there is no ground, and I don't really care. They feel it's cynical. But I don't think I have any cynicism in me.
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I advise everybody not to save: spend your money. Most people save all their lives and leave it to somebody else. Money is to be enjoyed.
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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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I'm very interested in people who seem very negative and nasty and to go inside their world and see why they get that way. It makes you a little more sympathetic to them, even though I really don't want to be around those people.
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Most of the problem I see amongst friends and I've experienced amongst myself is when people haven't accommodated the inequality that they want, they haven't understood that their partner wants to give more love and receive less or they haven't understood that their partner wants to receive more, but sort of give less.
