People Quotes
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I've always been a guy that's liked a crowd and having people around cheering for me. I'm not a guy that will keep his head down or respond negatively to boos or whatever.
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I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.
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I've always wanted to stay involved with young people. I never bought into the idea that entertainers owe nothing to their audience except a good performance.
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Stylistically, things are becoming cooler. People are trying different things and combining genres.
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We need more courageous individuals who will defy the structures of power, whether political, economic, or intimate, but we also need it to be safe for people to feel their power and to be able to express their ideas and imagine without fear.
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I love animals and feel very strongly that people should not be allowed to buy a pet if they are not able to look after it.
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We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.
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I'm open to whatever people want to call me.
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What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.
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I feel like a lot of black men 'put on' because of what they see and because of what people tell them they have to be.
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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
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I totally consider Fishbowl my full time job - I have to say I freaking love doing this blog. I just enjoy the medium so much; I love the fact that it requires me to read amazing stuff by hilarious and talented people and forces me to know what's going on in the world.
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People always talk about the implication and applications of a process, but for me, the goal is purely about knowledge. Knowledge can become practical today, in 20 years, or in 500 years. Ask Newton. He didn't know there would be space research based on his accident with the apple.
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Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.
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Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.
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There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering.
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There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do.
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Resenting promotion is one of the greatest obstacles to success. People who have issues with selling and promotion are usually broke.
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People say I play real loud. I don't, actually. I'm recorded loud and a lot of that is because we have good engineers. Mick knows what a good drum sound is as well, so that's part of the illusion really. I can't play loud.
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I save everything up until Sunday night because if I start sending emails on Saturday afternoon, then people have to start responding to me on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning.
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People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.
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I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about, say, pink people except that they're black.
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I have no idea how people think of literary agents. Truthfully, I don't think they think of them very often.
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I just love to collaborate with people who take my ideas real serious, and they don't put up walls around them.
