People Quotes - Page 32

• Those who make their living by collecting taxes cause the people to starve; when the people starve, the tax collectors, having no one to tax, starve also

  Laozi

  Causes, Collecting, Taxes

  Laozi, Archie J. Bahm (1986). “Tao teh king”, World Book

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• The trumpet player, Ronnie Hughes, has still got his chops today but for some strange reason the culture doesn't call him because he's 83-years-old. And these people are in their 70s and 80s and 90s and came with such verve every day and would still be shooting these 10 and 12 hour days. So, that in itself made this an extraordinarily special occasion for all of us. It wasn't a job for the crew after a few days, it took on another tone.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Jobs, Player, Years

  "Quartet - Dustin Hoffman interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do.

  David Hockney

  Artist, Saws, Load

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• There are so many places, particularly right now. Go and volunteer at a food bank. If you play the piano, go play the piano in an Alzheimer's home. Or read in an Alzheimer's home. Help a military family with babysitting. The opportunities are endless. People often think 'They want me?' or 'I can be of help?' What we try to say here is 'Be who you are.'Feel that, live it and pass it on.

  Maria Shriver

  Military, Home, Opportunity

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• People think, 'Oh my goodness! I have to do something really big.' You don't. Do what you love. There's a great quote from a poet I use all the time: 'Instead of asking what the world needs, ask yourself what you love,' because what the world needs is more people doing what they love.

  Maria Shriver

  Thinking, Use, World

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I travel up and down the country and I've been all around the middle of America for many years. Middle America is not one big mass of people with a proverbial beer in its hand, keeping the country down. That is not my experience of it and I don't labor under that misconception. And we have a long tradition of coming together through music in our country.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Country, Beer, Hands

  Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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• So many people don't know who's on the State Seal and they don't know, not just in California but the United States of America, things they look at every day and they say, 'Wow! I didn't know that.'

  Maria Shriver

  California, America, United States

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Creating the Minerva Awards. I really have enjoyed that. I have to say that I moaned and groaned about this job but the way I have it now, I enjoy everything about it... I enjoy giving people service opportunities.

  Maria Shriver

  Jobs, Opportunity, Awards

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I like meeting people and I like being able to help.

  Maria Shriver

  Able, Helping, Meetings

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• When I wanted to change the concept of what I was doing, I needed to be more public because it involved more people to collaborate. And I'm doing television now. I have to be honest, I was very afraid to do TV. I said no for 10 years.

  Naomi Campbell

  Years, Television, Tvs

  Interview Magazine Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2013.

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• I worry more about the marketing that's taken hold since the 70s. The Jazz era, the Swing era, those were huge. Entire decades were named for music. In the 1940s - after World War II - changes in taxation, ballrooms closing, people moving to the suburbs, and the onset of target marketing and the confusion of commerce with art caused some things to happen as a result that have taken us away from jazz and what jazz offers us.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Art, War, Moving

  Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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• Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you "sell" only to people of a certain age, you get cut off from the main body of experience. The power of couple dancing and courtship, it's elegant, and you wouldn't realize America was once a nation of dancers and singers today. People of all races could dance and sing.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Couple, Cutting, America

  Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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• I really am just trying to tell stories. But stories are often grounded in larger events and themes. They don't have to be - there's a big literature of trailer-park, kitchen-table fiction that's just about goings-on in the lives of ordinary people - but my own tastes run toward stories that in addition to being good stories are set against a backdrop that is interesting to read and learn about.

  Neal Stephenson

  Running, Interesting, Kitchen

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't think you have to go out and become Secretary of State or be Bono but I think it's to let people know that whatever they do in their life that that's good.

  Maria Shriver

  Thinking, States, Knows

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The most important thing we can tell young people is not to be an imitation of somebody else. That their life is special. They are the creator of their life and their way and find something that they enjoy doing that doesn't even feel like work. It feels like a passion. And then just by doing that and bringing that to the world, they become architects of change.

  Maria Shriver

  Passion, Special, Important

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• We learnt a lot because we got in with real choreographers who tell you what they need from a song, because a song has to advance the story. Then real directors like Mike Nichols tell you where you can have 'B themes' and 'C themes', and we go oh yes, B themes and C themes! So we were taught in the finest school amongst the finest people. And also by the school of experience.

  Eric Idle

  Song, Real, School

  "Not The Messiah (He's A Very Naughty Boy) - Eric Idle interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• We don't all see the same way at all. Even if I'm sitting looking at you, there is always the memory of you as well. And a memory is now. So someone who's never met you before is seeing a different person. That's bound to be the case. We all see something different. I assume most people don't look very hard at anything.

  David Hockney

  Memories, Different, Looks

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• I went to school for marketing and advertising, so I have a special interest in good and funny commercials and why they work and why they're funny - which is one of the reasons I, like many people, like watching the Super Bowl, besides the game.

  Kevin Nealon

  School, Games, Marketing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Any time you do an Adam Sandler film, it's kind of like a boys' club, because you're hanging out and there are guitars around, and basketballs and footballs and electric bikes and scooters and different people dropping by.

  Kevin Nealon

  Basketball, Football, Boys

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's something that I know how to do because I taught for a very long time, so I can do it, and I feel a responsibility to do it - for instance, in this situation, where I'm touring specifically for this period of time. But most writers are not public people. There are a few writers out there who really enjoy it and are good at it, and can both work and do that at the same time, but I'm not one of those people.

  Alice Sebold

  Responsibility, Long, Taught

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A lot of people ask questions that they don't want to answer themselves, and if we're honest about the intimacy that we have with our parents, you wish them the best and you wish them the worst more than anybody else in the world. I think everyone has had a moment in their life where they wished a parent ill, and I think it's perhaps a very romantic idea that that doesn't happen.

  Alice Sebold

  Thinking, Ideas, Parent

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends up having a written-down explanation for why things happen, or why people do specific things. So it made sense to me to reflect the human condition that not every action has an explanation. We act, and then later maybe come to an understanding about it, or maybe not.

  Alice Sebold

  Understanding, Desire, Why Things Happen

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm determined, and I'm passionate and driven about whatever I commit myself to do. If I don't know something, I'm going to ask, and I've got no problems in asking questions. I never have. People ask me, "Are you nervous when you go on the runway? You don't look it." Yes, I am.

  Naomi Campbell

  Asking Questions, Looks, Passionate

  Interview Magazine Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2013.

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• The most aggressive views governing this country speak a lot about inclusion. We still have some people in this country who don't really get that we all have the same agenda, aspirations, hopes, and fears. I want people to be free and to be able to express themselves, to find the best ways to say things so that people can digest them.

  Russell Simmons

  Country, Views, Agendas

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I had too many businesses that are frivolous. I have enough. What interests me most is under-served communities. We need a new style of empowering these people, and new approaches.

  Russell Simmons

  Community, Empowering, Style

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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