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People Quotes


"Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide."


"People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency."


"I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them."


"In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda."


"What I do not accept is the fact that so many people's talents were ripped off."


"I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but I still have my whole career ahead of me."


"This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true."


"It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here."


"Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse."


"So, the combination of looking at lots of different people and how they react to each other and how they relate to each other and waiting for that inspiration is the thing that allows me to keep writing."


"We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened."


"From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality."


"I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in."


"When you won that title you should know now that you are representing a whole country or nation with your actions and you are now in a glass house or under a microscope and you better be ready to make your people proud."


"It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are considered to be Thai have traveled abroad in a great number."


"When a new generation watches the films, people might mention that it has improved their lovemaking. I guess it's because it isn't threatening. It was very sweet and delicate."


"I had a vision how it should sound and I put all my knowledge into this product and it is a fantastic product. People still tell me that I have the best musical thing there."


"No amount of humanitarian assistance can protect people from being attacked."


"Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame."


"I don't think Capote loved Smith. But he did make a deep connection. It upset some people, because that had never been the approach to journalistic crime writing, to look into the mind of the killer."


"I have no idea what the U.S. intends to do further there and what would be the reaction of the Iraqi people. I only know that the sole option is to leave Iraq to the Iraqi people."


"I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation."


"There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon."


"I never want to turn something down because I'm afraid to do it, because of some idea of image or whatever. That was never anything I set out to do. In fact, the opposite, I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make."


"Don't you know, priests, why our sermons do not touch the people's heart? Because we do not preach to the eyes, only to the ears."


"The killing of innocent people is always wrong."


"Some people have active imaginations, but they don't know me and they're wrong if they think they do."


"People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things."


"We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely."


"I am only a simple woman who lives to serve Peron and my people."


"I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading."


"I showed people that it's not about guessing what people can do. It's about saying, 'Here, show me what you can do.'"


"In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations."


"I felt very strongly the whole social impact of that depression, you know, and I felt very strongly about the efforts that this Resettlement Administration was trying to accomplish; resettling people, helping them, and so on."


"When we began filming, these people had legs, but as we were filming, they had been injured and they were brought to the hospital to have their legs amputated, and that's where we found them and asked them to come and be part of the film."


"The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation."


"The important matter is freedom. When the people choose what they want, it is good for them and for us."


"It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep."
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