People Quotes
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A lot of talented people have some quirks, y'know? And bless them for that. I'd rather have Tourette's than be someone boring.
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People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It's prepared them. I've never felt like you could develop character without adversity.
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'Cunnamulla' is a beautifully bleak portrait of a lonely town in which people are leading lives of sort of quiet desperation.
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Kevin Bacon and I went up for the same stuff, and people would say, 'You and Kevin have the same quality.' I was like, 'I do?' I remember seeing 'Footloose' and thinking, 'How do I have any kind of quality that that guy does?'
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If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
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Religion is something we don't talk about, and it is used by uneducated people as a weapon to divide us as opposed to connect with each other.
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The world is getting so small. Young people are mobile; they want to travel around the world. When you travel around the world, you exchange culture, you want to make friends, you want to exchange things.
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When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'
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When I worked in the Obama White House, people in national security positions had been uneasy making broad public arguments, particularly about political matters.
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For a writer it's a dream to sit and watch people as close as possible.
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The restaurant chefs in Spain are breaking ground, but in terms of the everyday cooking in Spain I still hear people coming back and saying they were disappointed. I think it's because they're expecting the chef stuff.
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By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief.
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There's nothing more vulnerable than just standing in front of a thousand people, or ten thousand people, and doing your best to entertain them, touch them in some way.
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Just as much as you need the people who love you, you need the people who doubt you - to prove them wrong.
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I have a kind of psychic invisibility. As long as I can stay scared, I can keep people from seeing me. That's what we have to count on.
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The world forgets about people who are not useful.
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People aren't grapes - you can't weigh them in a bunch, but I guess it's easier than dealing with people as individuals.
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A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.
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I think one reason why our show is popular too is that we have relationships with all these people. They are our actual friends. We're not like show promoters where we're like, (sleazy) "Hey, come on over and do a show."
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Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself.
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Like a lot of people, I'm very, very concerned about Senator Clinton's record. I'm very, very concerned about where her positions were in the 1990s, when we had some of the most disgusting legislation in terms of our criminal justice, really, in this country's history.
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Fashion, historically, is how people make statements about themselves or communicate.
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My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.
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People use the notion of God to bully people and hurt people, when we can use the concept to respect and uplift.
