People Quotes
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99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
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Young people are so brave when they go to fight.
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All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.
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The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class.
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In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want.
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In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.
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When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.
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I grew up around people that enjoyed life day to day and found pleasure in simple things.
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I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.
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A lot of people in the NBA don't even take the game serious or take the same approach that I do.
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I wanted to make the soundtrack of people's lives.
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I actually looked at an Apple ad from 1978. It was a print ad. That shows you how ancient it was. And it said, 'Thousands of people have discovered the Apple computer.' Thousands of people.
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I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.
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Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
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The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this 'I, me, mine' type of thing.
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All the power's in the hands of people rich enough to buy it.
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It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
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I think a lot of singers are shy people. I suppose singing on stage is not like talking; you are not as exposed.
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Basically, I think some of the weight helped take some of the walls down in reality, so basically I got a little more confident. I'm definitely not super confident, but I am confident that I don't have to hide behind those layers of fat and that I can actually open up to people a little more.
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As an actor, what you really want to do is communicate with people - this is my aim, my principle aim.
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I don't think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual tracks from iTunes rather than a whole album. We buy music DVDs and watch them once, and then they disappear into a drawer, or we loan them to a friend, and we never watch it again.
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If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anything and everything.
