People Quotes
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I presumably lost $150,000 in the depression of 1937—on my one stock investment—because I did everything Lehman Brothers told me. I said, well, this is a fool’s procedure . . . buying stock in other people’s businesses.
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When we love people but don't make it about us, we're exchanging currency we can use for a while for currency we can use forever.
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Living in Portland, which is a predominantly white city, the privilege and the luxury to be able to obsess over a certain kind of minutia, that I think, if you did not have that privilege, would never be bothersome. When people are worried about whether "local" means 100 miles, or 50 miles, or 10 miles from a grocery store, I just think, "Wow. What a privilege it is to have that as a major concern in your life." As opposed to, "Can we afford food tonight?" Sometimes I'm just shocked at what becomes concerning in these kind of communities.
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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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I believe in having fun first, and along the way, if you teach people, if you influence people, well and good.
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Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there is to it.
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people who say its a long story, mean it's a stupid short one that they are too embarrassed and couldn't be bothered to tell
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Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.
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If I'm going to leave my family for any length of time, it had better be for a role that I haven't played before, with great people. It had better be fun.
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People are complicated. There is so much more to everybody than you realise.
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I used to think life could be shared with anyone, but now I know choosing the right people is pretty important.
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Some people say that less is more. But I think more is more.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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I'm one of the people who was a pioneer in encouraging musicians, early in the game, to get interested in technology, and now all the musicians are getting into it.
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The most fascinating part of movies is the organism of the movie - it's such a bizarre thing to do, to make a movie. To see these people come together, band in unity, to create this thing that almost doesn't exist. It only exists because it's projected on a screen, but other than that, it's an illusion.
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Some people go through life searching and never find their soul mates. They never do. You and I did, we just happened to have them for a shorter period of time. It's sad, but it's life.
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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.
