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People Quotes
"From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality."
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"Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show us what you can do."
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"People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things."
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"National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people."
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"The tormenting dilemma of the Middle East is this: either we have one people too many, or one state too few."
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"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."
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"For me, there are no my people and strangers, no bad people and good people. All people are equal for me."
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"I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading."
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"I'd rather go to a place and spend a couple of months, get to know it, get to know the people."
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"Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment."
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"The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants."
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"It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person."
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"Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I've known for years are all in the industry together."
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"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."
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"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."
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"The attacks inside Israel are operations we carry out in response to Israeli crimes against our people."
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"I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept on reinventing herself."
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"We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter."
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"I am affected by what is around. I don't think many people would admit that."
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"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."
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"The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it."
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"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."
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"In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda."
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"Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion."
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"I've always swung the same way. The difference is when I swing and miss, people say, 'He's swinging for the fences.' But when I swing and make contact people say, 'That's a nice swing.' But there's no difference, it's the same swing."
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"Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people."
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"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."
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"I am elected by the people of Bucharest, not the dogs."
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"We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely."
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"We don't have any bad memories of the people of the United States."
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"Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition."
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"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."
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