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People don't want to be understood, I mean not completely. It's too destructive. Then they haven't anything left.
Source: Bring Me a Unicorn (1971) -
People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.
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People expect not just songwriters but all personalities to pontificate about their egos - they just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that.
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People expect us to be different, but we're not. We're very similar people, and it's because we're so similar and close to each other that we make each other laugh - in fact we make each other laugh more than we make anyone else laugh.
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People fail to achieve goals not because of lack of abilities, but because of lack of determination. (any ability can be learned).
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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
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People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.
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People have not been horrified by war to a sufficient extent... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige as the warrior does today.
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People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
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People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.
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People invite me to dinner not because I cook, but because I like to clean up. I get immediate gratification from Windex. Yes, I do windows.
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People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.
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People look at me and look, but I do not care.
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People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subject inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
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People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.
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People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
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People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any act of Parliament.
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People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
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People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.
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People often ask me where I stand politically. It's not that I disagree with Bush's economic policy or his foreign policy, it's that I believe he was a child of Satan sent here to destroy the planet Earth. Little to the left.
Source: Shock and Awe
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