People Quotes
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I try to avoid describing one interpretation of my books. Of course I have an opinion. I have things I want to say, but I don't ever want to limit anybody, to have them say, 'Oh, he said this, so that's what it's about.' I'm happy people bring their own stuff to it.
Patrick Ness
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I want to level the playing field for people who want to purchase health insurance as individuals, and that means eliminating the exemption for employer-sponsored health care.
Adam Hasner
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As I've often said, Wisconsin's greatest strength continues to be the dedicated, hardworking people of our state. They go to work everyday, pay their taxes, and raise their kids with good, Midwestern values.
Jim Doyle
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In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he [the president] is the representative of the people. He is elected by them, as well as congress is. But can he, in the nature [of] things, know the wants of the people, as well as three hundred other men, coming from all the various localities of the nation? If so, where is the propriety of having a congress?
Abraham Lincoln
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I have already reached out to the janata, and I am only trying to acquaint myself with people's problems.
Indira Gandhi
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I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.
Ulysses S. Grant
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I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong.
Burt Bacharach
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You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood.
Ernest Hemingway
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All these different groups of people that are put right in the path of billions of dollars of American tax payers' money. If I had enough time I could have named all of those people in the song, too! The song would have been 400 minutes long.
John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
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People are not patient anymore.
Antonio Banderas
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Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing.
Dave Davies The Kinks
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People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.
Gary Vaynerchuk
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I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision.
Octavia E. Butler
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I tried to write 'Trainspotting' in standard English, but people weren't talking like that.
Irvine Welsh
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It's not just teachers, but coaches are helping to shape the young people of tomorrow.
Kimberly Guilfoyle
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What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.
Oprah Winfrey
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The American people depend on these federal employees to process, investigate, and adjudicate applications for immigration rights and benefits in a timely and thorough manner.
Joe Baca
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Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.
Aberjhani
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It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.
Fay Vincent
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I don't keep a press agent because I think people need to have a break from you.
LaDonna Adrian Gaines
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I want my people to stay with me here. All the dead men will come to life again. Their spirits will come to their bodies again. We must wait here in the homes of our fathers and be ready to meet them in the bosom of our mother.
Wovoka
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My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.
Kate Fleetwood
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Stand-up comedians say that anyone in the audience can be funny, but people paid to see us because we're just a little bit funnier. In the same way, I think anybody can play music - in fact, I think everyone has music in them, but some of us can do it a little better.
J. D. Souther
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The prospect of outsized profits leads people to exaggerate their own capabilities. In their minds. They pretend to themselves that they are in control of events where perhaps they are not. And it is always one's stance upon uncertain ground that invites the attentions of one's enemies. Or discourages it.
Cormac McCarthy