People Quotes
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When you're a stand-up, you play in front of 600 people, and it's all about timing. I could never do stand-up comedy; it would be way too hard for me.
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The people I used to be surrounded by are getting along without me. Somehow, that really bugs me.
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It takes about a year to write an opera for me, but not a really a year of writing. I'm touring at the same time, and I'm playing, sometimes doing smaller projects.[The opera] Akhnaten fits in with Gandhi and Einstein, so that forms a trilogy in a way.I picked people who were these kind of larger than life characters, who kind of changed the world they lived in by almost the force of their personality and their inventiveness. People that I think not only do I admire but I think they're admirable people.
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People have the strength to overcome their bodies. Their beauty is in their minds.
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People like it when others are gossiping. When you hear a story about someone's demise or some big faux-pas they made, everyone wants to tune into it, because it's nice to know that someone else made a mistake. It makes you feel elevated for a moment.
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I like to see people enjoy using my product. This is the mission of an engineer.
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People's character is their behaviour - we're all capable of good and evil.
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The great musicians are those who can reach people, who can make people feel something.
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Sincere thought, real free thought, ready, in the name of superhuman authority or of humble common sense, to question the basis of what is officially taught and generally accepted, is less and less likely to thrive. It is, we repeat, by far easier to enslave a literate people than an illiterate one, strange as this may seem at first sight. And the enslavement is more likely to be lasting.
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Food is like a legal drug. You can take 50 cents and walk into the store and buy a Twinkie and get high. And it's killing people.
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People think I'm totally crackers.
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Supermarkets don't really sustain a community, and they completely remove people from the food chain.
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I walk my dog at dawn because I don't like people to be around.
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Now I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day, and nothing is changed for me.
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I've always had a passion for technology, photography, startups, and connecting people. Bringing those aspects together made me successful.
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I want to make people feel good about who they are regardless of who they are or where they come from or the color of their skin or what their family acts like or what they look like. I am all about acceptance of others and of yourself.
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I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.
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When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.
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Well, my take was people of Minnesota, these are good people. They're in many ways more generous than other parts of the country. They're better educated than other parts of the country.
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You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
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Young people have so many letdowns that people don't realize.
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I want people to look at me in the future and feel that there's this Asian hip-hop artist who's fresh and hot.
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During 'Chicago Hope,' I never let directors talk to me, because I was so spoiled. I started off with people like Milos Forman, Sidney Lumet, James Lapine, unbelievably gifted people. So there I was, saying, 'Don't talk to me, I don't want your opinion.' I behaved abominably.
