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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.
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People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.
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People react to fear, not love - they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.
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People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.
Rolling Stone Interview, 1988 -
People say sometimes, gosh, that was brave of you to write such-and-such last week. 'Brave?' What do they mean 'brave?' It's right! How could you not write it?
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People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.
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People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.
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People say, 'Weren't you deprived of your childhood?' No way. I would not take anything back at all. Everything about it was great. I got to go places, meet people, play baseball against older kids and better competition. I had a great time.
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People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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People stayed with me and worked extra hard for me because I could see the potential in them - I'm not so sure they could see the potential in me.
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People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.
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People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.
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People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It's prepared them. I've never felt like you could develop character without adversity.
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People that I'm most attracted to, they're not living by any sort of rules. They're the kind of people with stories to tell.
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People think that if you get a lot of views, the ad truck just shows up at your front door. That's just not true.
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People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, you know, it's all - you're all settled, you know? You're going to be fine. I know that if I'm not confused, and really afraid, my work isn't going to be any good.
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People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don't want to play my old songs if that's my only option. That's a different thing.
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