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Quotes 1301 till 1320 of 2349.

  • Bill Laswell People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.
    Bill Laswell
    American bass guitarist (1955 - )
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  • Bobby Davro People are always wanting to pull me up on my shortfalls. I try to battle against those and concentrate on how good things are.
    Bobby Davro
    English actor and comedian (1958 - )
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  • Charles F. Kettering People are very open-minded about new things. As long as they are exactly like the old ones.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • Assata Shakur People ask me if I miss the States. I miss African Americans. But not the U.S. government or all the things they put me through. I miss African American culture, our speech, dance and cooking.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Albert Ellis People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Thich Nhat Hanh People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist (1926 - )
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  • Bruce Scheneier People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.
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  • Brooks Atkinson 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.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Iris Murdoch People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Stuart Briscoe People have a natural tendency to flee to the mountains when things get tough.
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  • Aaron Stanford People have always liked to be frightened. People love to feel that jolt of adrenaline. People love roller coasters. People love skydiving. These things that really get your heart pumping, and horror films are sort of a safe way to get that rush I guess.
    Aaron Stanford
    American actor (1976 - )
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  • Aaron Carter People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
    Aaron Carter
    American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor (1987 - )
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  • Bill Hicks People in the U.K. share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself. They have a sense of irony, which America doesn't have, seeing as it's being run by fundamentalists who take things literally.
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Annie Dillard 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.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Bryn Terfel People may have thought that we changed a lot. I don't think we came in with that intention. Certain things I can't stomach. But I tried to be as collegial as possible. When you sign that contract, you're tied to that opera house to try your best. But every different team will play with a different intensity.
    Bryn Terfel
    Welsh bass-baritone opera singer (1965 - )
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  • A. P. Herbert People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any act of Parliament.
    A. P. Herbert
    English humorist, novelist and playwright (1890 - 1971)
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  • Ben Simmons People say a lot of things about LeBron, but he just keeps having a good mentality and grinding. That's what I try to do, proving people wrong by what I do on the court.
    Ben Simmons
    Australian basketball player (1996 - )
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  • Boy George People say things about me all the time and I get over it. I've had some appalling things told about me.
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
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  • Russell Baker People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
    Russell Baker
    American journalist (1925 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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