People Quotes
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I think that any woman who had a conversation with me and had an opportunity to truly understand my life story wouldn't view it through a critical lens. There are people, of course, in the world of politics, who look for things to be critical about. But those people are already against you.
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You can be politically correct if you want, but are you trying to say we don't have a problem? ... Most Muslims, like most everything, I mean, these are fabulous people... But we certainly do have a problem, I mean, you have a problem throughout the world. ... It wasn't people from Sweden that blew up the World Trade Center.
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A lot of people try to control how you access gaming. You know, they're trying to prevent people from buying games.
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People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.
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Look - I'm an African-American. I'm black. But I'm just looking at the character and trying to find his soul, his energy. If you can wipe away the blanket of skin and flesh that people tend to see, and look inside for the essence of the soul, then that's the work I'm doing. That's the work I always do.
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Most people remember the ending of the book more than the beginning and the middle.
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I have never called myself an opera singer. Other people do, but I always call myself a classical singer. I'd love to do opera, but I'm still too young and I don't want to do it until I'm ready. I realise that when I do that it's going to be... up for discussion, shall we say, so I want to get it right.
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Any time you speak to people about their posture, you learn about their most recent investment activity. When someone just bought stocks, they tend to be bullish; someone who just sold is bearish.
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I always liked parties. You meet people; you can have fun.
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There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.
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During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois.
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Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.
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You know why I fear people's judgment? Because I know they're judging. I know they are.
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On privacy issues, it's just like hundreds of years ago when people said, 'I would rather put my money under my pillow than in a bank.' But today, banks know how to protect money much better than you do. Today, we may not have the answers to privacy issues, but I believe our young people will come up with the solutions.
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Labeling is not the best way to get young people to deeply engage in reading.
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The way I see it, if people truly love my music, they will support me in some way down the road.
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The grief of losing my father has come in waves over the years, as it does with most people. His love and devotion as a father provided my closest, most intimate relationship. Dad, and our time together, is in my bones. While reflecting on him, the memories themselves seem to boil down into certain 'essences of Dad.'
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The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.
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I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia.
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But we're going to smile and pretend we're fine with the dorky birthmas gifts because people do not get that they can't mush a birthday into christmas.
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Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.
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A lot of people still think caring about clothes is a dubious, unserious, frivolous, girlie thing.
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Today, when you're marketing a brand, you can't try to appeal to everybody. You should speak to a group of people and create them as loyalists.
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I think a lot about the private emotions of black people - what we feel and yet is rarely publicly expressed.
