People Quotes
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Some people are embarrassed to say they came from East St. Louis, Ill., but now more people want to claim it. I grew up in a community center and I knew what it gave me. I always knew I wanted to give back and help people because people helped me.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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I'm just thankful that even at a young age, I got to experience something like 'X Factor,' and I got to meet enough people just to know that I needed to be patient until the right deal came around.
Jacob Whitesides
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If you can use a search engine, you can find any piece of music that's been recorded for free. I'm not saying that's right, but it's a fact, and I'm surprised that more people don't accept or acknowledge that and try to adapt in some way.
Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
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People don't want Congress dictating what light fixtures they can use.
Joe Barton
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We want a book to be a book. We'll have all the interactive bells and whistles but our intent is to engage young people in reading, not to show them a movie.
LeVar Burton
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I traffic in empathy. I try to be vulnerable with people so they can be vulnerable back. I've always been searching for empathy in other people. It's when I feel most not alone.
Jose Antonio Vargas
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But in the past, US companies have been able to increase their profits through downsizing in the US, through colonizing other people's resources, and through the increase of globalization.
David Korten
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Ultimately, what we're striving for is people being allowed to do what they want and not feeling they should or shouldn't do certain things.
Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
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I have no personal ambitions. I consider it a great privilege to have been given an opportunity to serve, through the Congress party, the people of India. I think that itself is a great reward. I have no personal ambitions in that regard.
Kapil Sibal
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'Marielena' was a wonderful experience that so many people still remember today. It challenged me to practice my Spanish. Having been born and raised in Miami, English was very much my dominant language!
Maria Canals Barrera
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I just keep my eyes open and focus on the things I'm not good at and what makes other people better than me - technique and things outside the Octagon.
Jon Jones
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When people get disillusioned and get insecure and content about the future, they tend to brood about what might have been.
Dave Davies The Kinks
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I do think it's possible to change people's minds - it's one of my goals with my music.
Jake Shears Scissor Sisters
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People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.
Bill Laswell
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You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost.
Mary Lou Retton
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I've always been interested in the idea of people who fell through the cracks.
Peter Capaldi
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With four people you can create one very strong kind of energy, but if you can get 65 people working together, and swinging together, that's a whole other kind of energy.
Chuck Mangione
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I want to make my music a genre that people can immediately identify: something that never existed.
Ji-Hae Park
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You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
Warren Bennis
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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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People don't understand this, but I started very young, and I became very, very successful at a very young age. By the time I was 26 years old, I was a multimillionaire. And I started with nothing. And I was on the road 10, 11 months a year.
Jerry Weintraub
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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.
Alice Walker
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There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.
Keith Miller
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I love being around people.
Chelsea Manning