People Quotes
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I have no political ax to grind; I just find it absurd that huge billion-dollar corporations can take over elections. I just find it insane that, for instance, we give tax breaks to people like myself making millions of dollars, while there're no tax breaks for working people. That, to me, is not a political issue, that's a life issue.
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The most satisfying thrillers send ordinary people into battle against the forces of evil - otherwise known as greed, ego, rage, fear and laziness - and bring them out bloodied but whole.
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The reason I work with the same people, it's not just an accident.
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There's a movie called 'Pod People' that has a weird little anteater alien. That was a good alien.
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We are living in a world where greed has become for the wealthiest people their own religion, and they make no apologies for it.
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All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.
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The best time to go to Las Vegas is during Christmastime, because there's no drug you can take that will recreate the experience of watching people gamble while they play Christmas carols. I'm Jewish, and I'm astonished. People going, 'GODDAMMIT!' 'JESUS CHRIST!' 'HOLY FUCK!' '...pa-rum-pum-pum-pum, me and my drum.'
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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.
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People aren't born strong. People grow stronger little by little, encountering difficult situations, learning not to run from them.
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Talking to John Kerry is like talking to an Ent. You know, the tree people from Lord of the Rings...imitating an Ent I believe that all Americans should have affordable healthcare...
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If I had the opportunity to say a fine word to all the young people of America, it would be this: Don't think too much about yourselves. Try to cultivate the habit of thinking of others; this will reward you. Nourish your minds by good reading, constant reading. Discover what your lifework is, work in which you can do most good, in which you can be happiest. Be unafraid in all things when you know you are in the right.
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People perceive opera and classical as elitist - I disagree. I've always tried to mix the two, make it more accessible.
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Keep doing what you do, and people that enjoy what you do are gonna buy your music and love on you.
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Self-esteem is something I still battle. People look at me and say, 'You've got fame. You've got admiration. You've done this; you've done that.' As far as I'm concerned, I haven't done anything. I've just fulfilled a dream of competing.
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I find it scary when people talk about me as a future leader. It's like putting a big target on your back.
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Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it.
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In the past, before phones and the Internet, all communication was face-to-face. Now, most of it is digital, via emails and messaging services. If people were to start using virtual reality, it would almost come full circle.
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A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don't know what they're talking about. They just think of the rappers. When you talk about hip-hop, you're talking about the whole culture and movement. You have to take the whole culture for what it is.
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A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.
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It's important to have people who will say to you that you're really off the beaten track.
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Our mission is making the world's daily habits inspiring and entertaining. Which people come to work at Yahoo to build on that mission? Those who are inspired by that, and you can feel that passion in the products.
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Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
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People take sides on political things, such as the Vietnam War. War is immoral and war is wrong, but I don't think the clergy ought to bring it before the Church.
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Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever done: destroyed an entire people and their culture.
