People Quotes
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It is personal vanity of the most flagrant type which intrudes itself, unasked, into other people's affairs. There are few of us who do not feel capable of ordering the daily lives of others, down to the most minute detail.
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The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them.
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People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun from the fifteenth century, you'll see what I mean.
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Restaurants remind me of bands: there's lots of camaraderie, people work very closely together, very hard, and it's a bad job to pick if you want to make lots of money. Whether music or food, the reward always has to be because you love it.
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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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We know that 10 million more people will lose insurance in the next 10 years if we don't act.
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If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
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I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
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I look for good people and people that will be like-minded and help me try to do good for other human beings.
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The engagements I had with Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles were about reaching out and showing respect to the unionist people. I also recognised that when someone like her makes acts of reconciliation as she did do at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin, she is 100% behind the peace process.
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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I get hugs all the time from strangers. I do believe that people can feel your persona when you perform live, but it is one of the nicest things if you can translate that on your records.
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To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag.
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Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
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It's the coolest part about writing music. I don't know how other people work, but so much is derived from some amalgamation of all these different songs that I love. That's why they jump all over the place.
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I do get a bit of a sense, just from e-mails some people send me, just a little sense of how people in different countries seem to respond differently to certain lines in a song.
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I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.
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Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
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When I'm in the U.K. – and I'm here more than people would think – I tend to keep a very low profile.
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People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.
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When people come up and tell me they're such a big fan, it's cool. But weird.
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Probably more than anybody else, I loved Nat 'King' Cole as a performer - not only his singing but his piano playing. Whenever he had a new record come out, I'd get it and try to learn how he was playing. And he was one of the nicest people I'd ever met.
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I love Chennai and its people. My mother always tells me, 'You should have been born a South Indian!'
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Sometimes people's behavior is seemingly unexplainable.
