People Quotes
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History is full of people who out of fear or ignorance or the lust for power have destroyed treasures of immeasurable value which truly belong to all of us. We must not let it happen again.
Carl Sagan
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
Dan Savage
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The things that block a writer are not the lack of words, but the same things that block all people - the difficulties of life.
Max Apple
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The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
Randall Jarrell
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He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness.
Abu Bakr
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People have their guard down when they're laughing, so they're open to tougher conversations they wouldn't necessarily have. If somebody is guarded while laughing, they're a weirdo.
Jessica Williams
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With Kickstarter, people are patrons of the arts. With Mosaic, people can be clean-energy investors like Warren Buffett.
Billy Parish
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I like human stories. I like stories about situations we can relate to. I like movies like 'Ordinary People' or 'Terms of Endearment.' Mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, boyfriends, girlfriends. The stories to me that are worth telling are almost simple ones, but very relatable.
Chris Evans
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Soybeans really need an uplift, being on the dull side, but, like dull people, respond readily to the right contacts.
Irma S. Rombauer
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The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.
Salman Rushdie
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The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.
Pat Metheny
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One of the reasons I took up the guitar was I didn't want to speak to anybody. I really felt uncomfortable speaking to people, so I took the guitar up so I could hide behind it. I'm not comfortable explaining things, because my brain doesn't work that way.
Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
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You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.
Hillary Clinton
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It's really important to stand up for yourself and not always agree with what people say if indeed you don't feel that that's true.
Lily Collins
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The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.
Ted Turner
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Surveys show that while many people are open to the idea of an autonomous vehicle driving them to work, far fewer are willing to let one drive their child to soccer practice.
Karl Iagnemma
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Religion is supposed to be a positive thing when you look at the true religions around the world, not the fundamentalists. You always have to go with what your spirit tells you, not what people advise you. I'm a man that will always follow my own path.
Anthony Joshua
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If I'm gonna spend however long it takes to make a movie, give up 14 hours a day for however many weeks or months, then it's very important for me to know that I'm working with people who I respect and enjoy and that we're going for something together.
Brad Pitt
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Chinese emissions are a problem not just for its own people but also for the world. It has now overtaken the U.S. as the biggest carbon emitter; most of the coal that is burned anywhere on Earth is burned in China.
James Fallows
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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
Don Marquis
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It really surprises me that people in this day and age still write such busy music and fill up every space with layer upon layer of sound... it's like musical landfill.
James Blake
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I think about nothing but business the whole time. Even when I go out to my after-parties, people are like, 'You're drinking water?' I'm like, 'Yeah I am.'
Terrence LeVarr Thornton
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It sounds strange to say it, but you can be in a war zone and have a lot of fun. Even though war is essentially pain on all sides, human beings have the capacity to enjoy themselves. The soldiers are mostly young people, full of enthusiasm and energy, and that's an exciting thing for an old guy like me.
Bruce Cockburn
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Ammu explained to Estha and Rahel that people always loved best what they Identified most with.
Arundhati Roy