People Quotes
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Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation.
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In west London where I live, white people are a minority. In the area I am in, which is the borough of Brent, whites are less than 50%.
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I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.
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The reason our games generate so much revenue is because we're stupid enough to charge $60 for a box or $50 for a download or something. You need used games because most people can't afford those prices.
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In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
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In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.
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I can't think about whether I'll disappoint Sonic Youth fans. It's not like I want people to be disappointed, but I just can't control that.
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I'm strong. I like to mother people, look after people. I lead the gang.
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In the long run, there are people who've made more money or had bigger stardom at points. But, I think I'll have come out winning.
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People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.
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Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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Both the Left and the Right need to connect as people rather than as political entities.
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I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.
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I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.
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I hate the word assistant. No one works for me. I work with everyone because I couldn't do anything without the people that I work with.
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During the off-season when you see other people playing in the Super Bowl, you wonder, and you say to yourself, 'Are you ever gonna get there and see what it feels like?' And it pushes you a little bit harder during that off-season to work to try to get there the following year.
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My '50s were different than other people's '50s. The myth didn't permeate our world, 'Donna Reed' and all that. I longed for that, I wanted to be like other normal families on TV.
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I think one possibility [in the future] might be chemotherapy. And I'm always hesitant to say that because it makes it sound like I'm against chemotherapy. Right now, chemotherapy is the best cancer treatment therapy we have. But let's say we find some way where we can almost genetically engineer the DNA of our being and fight cancer that way. Then, the idea that we used to pump poison into people to fight off cancer will almost seem like the use of leeches or something.
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Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?
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If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.
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I like the variety. But basically my choice of films is a small intimate film. Quiet film, no action, just people in relationships. That's what I like the most.
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I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try to imagine patterns or codes to make sense of the unknowns that keep us up at night. I'm also interested in the invisible space between people in communication; the space guided by translation and misinterpretation.