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  • Henry Louis Mencken There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Bob Woodward There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Roland Barthes There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Alec Baldwin There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.
    Alec Baldwin
    American actor, writer, producer and comedian (1958 - )
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Barry Took There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.
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  • Ben Barnes There are plenty of people in the world who have tried to be rock stars and have not gotten there.
    Ben Barnes
    English actor (1981 - )
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  • Beth Henley There are probably brilliant people, geniuses, alive today who don't even know how to say, Hello, how do you do? because their minds are absorbed with electronic images.
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • James Baldwin There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Douglas Jerrold There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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  • Josh Billings There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Carl Sandburg There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.
    In Reckless Ecstasy (1904)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Thomas Wolfe There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Douglas Everett There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
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  • Achille Poincelot There are some people who think that all the world should share their misfortune, although they do not share in the sufferings of anybody else.
    Achille Poincelot
    French aphorism writer
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  • Robert Lynd There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.
    Robert Lynd
    American sociologist (1892 - 1970)
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  • Douglas Adams There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Brandi Carlile There are still civil rights issues. There are still people who can't be visited by their spouse in the hospital because they're gay. These are humanitarian issues. At the end of the day, all you want is for people to be happy in the pursuit of life, love and liberty.
    Brandi Carlile
    American singer-songwriter and producer (1981 - )
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  • Bill Forsyth There are things that Scotsmen get and other people don't get in the dialogue. Scottish characters can be pinpointed by a phrase, targeted very quickly.
    Bill Forsyth
    Scottish film director and writer (1946 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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