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AI don't make a big thing out of my race. If you try to preach, people give you a little sympathy an...

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The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a...

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The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.

The biggest challenge is how to affect public attitudes and make people care.

The vegan diet is obviously lacking whatever essential nutrient it is that makes people likeable.

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My ho...

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I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete women should try to give their best qualiti...

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It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them beca...

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Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to exp...

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It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Ea...

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We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different y...

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Media images are so important to young people feeling positive about themselves.

One thing lots of Christians do have in common is that they can't help coming across as smug. This w...

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People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. I...

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It kills me when people talk about California hedonism. Anybody who talks about California hedonism ...

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I've learned from my dealings with Johnny Carson that no matter what kind of friendship you think yo...

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Maybe a good goal would be to just at least always try to create something good. Like something that...

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Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we'v...

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It's never the differences between people that surprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, ...

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I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the peop...

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I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country dow...

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We don't want two-tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens.

Someone probably a lot smarter than me said hell is other people. I say you're in hell when you don'...

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Someone probably a lot smarter than me said hell is other people. I say you're in hell when you don'...

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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just t...

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Few people have the imagination for reality.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

Divide and rule, the politician cries;Unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

Politeness, delicacy [and] decency ... are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and c...

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There are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the one...

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Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the gove...

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The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points a...

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There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation...

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It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independen...

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People who put principles before people are people who hate people. They don’t much care about how w...

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If Obamacare is allowed to stand - and Congress is allowed to make the purchase of government-endors...

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Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

Actors are supposed to be these runaways that get in a covered wagon filled with hats and tambourine...

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You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great i...

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We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso...

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A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a natio...

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The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently a...

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To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they wou...

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I hate people who collect things and classify things and give them names and then forget all about t...

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Everything free and decent in life is being locked away in filthy little cellars by beastly people w...

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People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see t...

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Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.

Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish if we are to live in society. It is one I have...

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In music you have people exposing this very vulnerable part of themselves, and you also have the lif...

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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no dou...

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People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when ...

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John Green (author)An Abundance of Katherines

That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.

Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I al...

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John Green (author)An Abundance of Katherines

If people were rain, I was a drizzle and she was a hurricaine

Just like that. From a hundred miles an hour to asleep in a nanosecond. I wanted so badly to lie dow...

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The longer I do my job the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to ...

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You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.

There are so many people. It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, an...

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Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.

Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end ...

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I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum secu...

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My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I'm talking about or not.

I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing bu...

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It's not very interesting to establish sympathy for people who, on the surface, are instantly sympat...

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Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grav...

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Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of...

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I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a ...

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Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - fo...

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Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

I have seen flowers come in stony placesAnd kind things done by men with ugly faces,And the gold cup...

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I'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psychologicall...

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I hate death it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless.

An angry people cannot create anything that is not imbued with anger.

On the issue of the gay marriage, I believe if people want to have private ceremonies, that's fine. ...

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We should reach out to people to try to go after the fans the way other sports do. Because we can't ...

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Not all single women want to be married. Not all boys like football. Not all homemakers like to cook...

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Not all single women want to be married. Not all boys like football. Not all homemakers like to cook...

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Not all single women want to be married. Not all boys like football. Not all homemakers like to cook...

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Not all single women want to be married. Not all boys like football. Not all homemakers like to cook...

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People who believe in freedom of expression have spent several centuries fighting against censorship...

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There are too many games being developed by people that have no business creating games.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for so...

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People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for so...

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Damn real live people, getting in the way of peaceful ideals.

Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us. I miss mean...

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You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesn’t cost you...

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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, an...

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John SteinbeckTravels with Charley: In Search of America