People Quotes
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Every society needs educated people, but the primary responsibility of educated people is to bring wisdom back into the community and make it available to others so that the lives they are leading make sense.
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Philly is a state of mind I’m always in. The city is truly a character in its own right, and it’s served me well because the people I was exposed to gave me that cultural rootedness.
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Environmentalists aren't nearly sensitive enough to the fact that they are messing around with struggling people and their livelihoods. They forget that the fishermen are the people with the most immediate vested interest in having a healthy sea.
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I was looking for a name like the Crickets that meant two things, and from crickets I got to beetles. And I changed to B E A because … B E E T L E S didn't mean two things, so I changed … the E to an A. And it meant two things then. … When you said it, people thought of crawly things; and when you read it, it was beat music.
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The corporate world has the resources to improve the world. It's where people live and work.
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All three of us just had our eye on what was happening around us, we were very observant to what people were doing in love situations, and what was happening in the world.
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I don't wanna hear nobody complain that they're getting paid all this money and people won't leave them alone. It's part of it.
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I was badly mauled by people in New York State for being against the death penalty for 12 years.
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People who see an unhappy, sulky pop star assume that she's an ungrateful, self-absorbed little ninny. But nobody knows what's really going on. I need to eat, I need to sleep, and sometimes those things weren't considered. It was like, "When do you think I'll have time to go to the bathroom?" That wasn't on the schedule.
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There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a BILLION people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you.
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I really love the TV thing because it's a little of the best of all worlds. You have a sense of a family and work with the same people over the seasons.
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Jesus said, 'Judge not, lest ye be judged.' Let's stop trying to choose the political leaders who we believe are the most godly because, in reality, only God knows people's hearts. You and I don't, and we are all sinners.
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A lot of people who don't have anything collect dogs; it's kind of a symbol of having something.
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I like to write in coffee shops in countries in which languages I do not speak are spoken. That way, you're surrounded by the buzz of humanity, but you aren't distracted by people's conversations.
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I'm delighted to be Number 1, but next week I don't want people to buy my record, I want them to buy Band Aid.
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People do make mistakes and I think they should be punished. But they should be forgiven and given the opportunity for a second chance. We are human beings.
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Children know something that most people have forgotten.
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Antidepressants can have troubling side effects and are addictive for some people.
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I’ve always preferred having girlfriends to just seeing people.
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I think you develop strong instincts when you're a comedian. You have to pay your bills by making people laugh every six seconds... or not. I had to do that for 22 years.
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Chinese people of my parents' generation who lived through the Cultural Revolution knew so much of death at such a young age, and the psychic toll those experiences left was immense. I knew the stories of the Cultural Revolution before knowing what the Cultural Revolution was.
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The increasing segregation we have in our country geographically and culturally has led to these pretty monolithic views of different classes of people, and because of that, we've lost a certain amount of cultural cohesion.
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Not listening to people who care about you, not to be open or transparent, will make you isolated.
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And we believe in democracy - that the only real source of legitimacy is the consent of the people; that every individual is born equal with fundamental rights, inalienable rights, and that it is the responsibility of governments to uphold these rights.
