People Quotes - Page 37

• People think the blues is sad. They hear people moaning and such. That's not the blues. That's just somebody singing slow...The blues is about truth-telling.

  Alberta Hunter

  Thinking, Singing, Telling The Truth

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• People wait for the big moment, the great event, and forget that happiness comes from building steadily on the small daily things of life. People wait for that special moment to express love and forget that love springs from thoughtfulness practised every day. People wait, but waiting is future and NOW is always the time.

  Meher Baba

  Spring, Waiting, Special

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• It's so easy to pick up a camera, white balance, and shoot people having sex, but I don't think there's anything very interesting about it. You might get off, but that's it.

  Sasha Grey

  Sex, Thinking, White

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When we make the choice to care, we set into motion a snowball effect that touches many people, most of whom we will never know about . . . never underestimate the importance of a kind act.

  Alan Cohen

  Choices, Care, Underestimate

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• There is a notion that creative people are absent-minded, reckless, heedless of social customs and obligations. It is, hopefully, true for they are in another world altogether.

  Mary Oliver

  Creative, World, Reckless

  Mary Oliver (2016). “Upstream: Selected Essays”, p.21, Penguin

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• All democracies turn into dictatorships - but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it's Julius Caesar or Napoleon or Adolf Hitler. Ultimately, the general population goes along with the idea.

  George Lucas

  Ideas, Giving, Democracy

  "Democracy, Tyranny, and Star Wars". Time Interview, www.ign.com. April 25, 2002.

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• I think the Internet has definitely made it easier for people to have stuff seen, but it's also encouraged a level of ADD, where you see so much that if it doesn't make an impact on you immediately, you don't look at it.

  Shepard Fairey

  Thinking, Impact, Add

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's important to prepare audience for the worst in life. People come to forget their problems, and it's my job, right before I leave, to go, "Don't forget: You're going through a divorce and there's a recession." It's always good to end on a pensive note.

  Eugene Mirman

  Jobs, Divorce, Important

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's good and bad in every arena. It's funny, some people, the reason they're in the underground is because they're lazy and don't make things happen for themselves.

  Shepard Fairey

  Lazy, Arena, Reason

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A company is known by the people it keeps.

  Will Rogers

  Funny Business, Wise Man Once Said, Company

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• The dog wags its tail only at living things.
  A tail wag, the equivalent of a human smile,
  is bestowed upon people, dogs , cats, squirrels,
  even mice and butterflies. - but no lifeless
  things. A dog won't wag its tail to its dinner
  or to a bed, card, stick, or even a bone.

  Jean Craighead George

  Dog, Butterfly, Cat

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• I am afraid of people with too much charm. They devour you. In the end you are made a sacrifice to the exercise of their fascinating gift and their insincerity.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Exercise, Sacrifice, Too Much

  W. Somerset Maugham (1941). “the Gentleman in the Parlour”

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• I may not get there with you, but I believe that we as a people will someday reach the promised land.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Believe, Land, May

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• The world is how we see the world. Some people see the world good, the other people see the world bad. Every person has an idea of the world with a subjective [viewpoint].

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Ideas, Viewpoints, World

  "Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Prophetic Vision". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2014.

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• I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough great followers. I have stood side by side with great thinkers - surgeons, engineers, economists; people who deserve a great following - and have heard the crowd cheer me instead.

  Babe Ruth

  Cheer, Thinking, Leader

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• That's always been in my mind my metaphor for a team working really hard on something they're passionate about. It's that through the team, through that group of incredibly talented people bumping up against each other, having arguments, having fights sometimes, making some noise, and working together they polish each other and they polish the ideas, and what comes out are these really beautiful stones.

  Steve Jobs

  Beautiful, Team, Fighting

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• Civilization is the art of living together with people not entirely like oneself.

  Helen Cam

  Art, Civilization, Together

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• I think Twitter is the literature of the 21st century. I think it's an incredible art because when you make a book, you don't know who reads it. But every line, I write a million people, they read it, and then they insult me, they love me, they discuss, they give an opinion instantly, immediately. They are completely in communication, immediately. That is a real art.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Art, Real, Book

  "Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Prophetic Vision". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2014.

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• A lot of people thought I got famous as a studio artist, then decided to cash in on it. But it actually was just a matter of survival for many years, and I felt it was really important for me to be able to say whatever I wanted with my street art and fine art.

  Shepard Fairey

  Art, Years, Survival

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I see as white people finding loopholes in the slavery laws.

  Chris Rock

  Law, White, Slavery

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• Statistics show 50% of the people use the internet. The rest have sex with real people.

  Jay Leno

  Sex, Real, Use

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• Latest survey shows that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the world's population.

  Stephen Hawking

  Population, World, Surveys

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• An elite group of less than a billion people now take more than 80 per cent of the world's wealth.

  John Pilger

  Groups, World, Wealth

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• I'm basically a very lazy person who likes to get credit for things other people actually do.

  Linus Torvalds

  Lazy, Credit, Likes

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• A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography

  Bruce Schneier

  Security Systems, Cryptography, World

  Bruce Schneier (2011). “Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World”, p.8, John Wiley & Sons

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