Quotes about people
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When people say 'I want to be like you', I tell them if you want to be like me then be yourself. Marilyn Manson
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When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously. Daniel Clowes
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When people get down to the wire, they're often doing what's easiest.
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When people get desperate, they get very creative.
people rather somebody strong weak wrong
When people feel uncertain, they'd rather have somebody that's strong and wrong than somebody who's weak and right. Bill Clinton
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When people feel they're getting to speak into what's being preached, there is high built-in motivation to participate. John Ortberg
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When people ask what I'd like to do next, the answer is usually, 'Something with people in rooms.' Anna Popplewell
people ways
When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish. Ma Jian
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When people are nice to me, I'm nice to them. Juan Pablo Montoya
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When people are dying, bureaucracy should be thrown out of the water. Ray Nagin
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When people are drowning, you can't just look the other way.
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When people accuse me of being really posh, I think, 'Hang on a minute - no, I'm not!' Rob James-Collier
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When my writing really started to take off was when I made a decision that I would write only what I wanted to write, and if 10 people wanted to hear it, that's fine. David Friedman
people realize searching stop tragic
We wouldn't stop searching for them if we thought they were still alive. It's tragic but most people would realize that we do have to be realistic.
people mind victory
Victory is sweetest when you've know defeat. Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. You pay for everything, even including speaking your mind (with or without one). Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. Malcolm Forbes
people forever advice
For a great many people, the evening is the most enjoyable part of the day. Perhaps, then, there is something to his advice that I should cease looking back so much, that I should adopt a more positive outlook and try to make the best of what remains of my day. After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished? Kazuo Ishiguro
people opiates aspirin
In 1844, Karl Marx said, "Religion is the opiate of the masses." He said this at a time when opium and opium derivatives were the only painkillers. And he said it helped a little. He might as well have said, "Religion is the aspirin of the people." Kurt Vonnegut
people trying world
Oh, God — the lives people try to lead. Oh, God — what a world they try to lead them in.
people alive saint
But I replied that what made being alive almost worthwhile for me, besides music, was all the saints I met, who could be anywhere. By saints I meant people who behaved decently in a strikingly indecent society.
people tomorrow ifs
If people insist on living as if there's no tomorrow, there really won't be one.
people want said
Freud said he didn't know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk to.
people good-work envious
That's what is was to be young - to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do.
people community causes
What we will be seeking ... for the rest of our lives will be large, stable communities of like-minded people, which is to say relatives. They no longer exist. The lack of them is not only the main cause, but probably the only cause of our shapeless discontent in the midst of such prosperity.
people slaughterhouse-five looks
People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.
people together useless
The things other people have put into my head, at any rate, do not fit together nicely, are often useless and ugly, are out of proportion with one another, are out of proportion with life as it really is outside my head.
people church daydreaming
People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.
people wish facts
Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.
people earth green
Squeezing the lives of people is now being proposed as the saviour of the planet. Through the green economy an attempt is being made to technologise, financialise, privatise and commodify all of the earth’s resources and living processes. Vandana Shiva
people needs scarcity
When you take the entire system into account, ways of developing more of something in one dimension can actually create scarcities in another. If we say we have to increase production because people need more food, more housing, more meat, or more milk, we can make one thing grow in a certain way. But by doing that we create externalities so that there are scarcities in other related things.
people pity reason
We pity people too often for the wrong reasons. Katherine Anne Porter
people reviews
I'm always surprised when people say, "Oh, it got such mixed reviews." I guess I didn't read them. Karen Allen
people lovers flaws
Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.
people satisfaction principles
One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction. Karel Capek