People Quotes - Page 39

• If you're constantly being reminded of the ways in which your history and your narrative as a people were rooted in loss and decay, then you're in deep trouble. Once you make a certain kind of peace with the past, then you should be completely oriented towards speculation about the future.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Loss, Past, Way

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• Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.

  Barry McGee

  Graffiti, Would Be, Missions

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• Outlandish lyrics sung by smiling people in perfect harmony. Has that edge of surprise...a little nuts and really funny.

  Mick LaSalle

  Nuts, Perfect, Littles

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• I support organizations that help people do better for themselves and the community.

  Jonathan Tisch

  Organization, Support, Community

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• When people are facing a severe illness or a major surgery, that may be one of the most significant opportunities for spiritual transformation that they will encounter.

  Allan Hamilton

  Spiritual, Opportunity, Encounters

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• People think of science as rolling back the mystery of God. I look at science as slowly creeping toward the mystery of God.

  Allan Hamilton

  Thinking, Rolling, Looks

  "A Soulful Surgeon". Beliefnet Interview, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I want people to see the truth... regardless of who they are...
  because without information, you cannot make informed decisions as a
  public.

  Chelsea Manning

  Truth, Decision, Society

  "Manning-Lamo Chat Logs Revealed". www.wired.com. July 13, 2011.

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• I think the advice, regardless of gender, is always be open to conversations with people who do things differently than you do. If you’re starting to work in tech, talk to the artists, talk to the lawyers, talk to the people who are interested in other things.

  Beth Simone Noveck

  Artist, Thinking, Advice

  "Beth Simone Noveck, Former U.S Deputy Chief Technology Officer, On The Tech Trends That Worry Her Most". Interview with Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 18, 2011.

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• I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudolf Nureyev and Ted Heath, and ended up a senior cameraman with my own crew. I'd had my first short story published in 1947, and when my writing really started to take off I decided to go freelance, and eventually left the BBC in 1965.

  Michael Bond

  Senior, Writing, Blue

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• Fixing bars is easy. Fixing people is tough.

  Jon Taffer

  Bars, Fixing, Tough

  Twitter post from Nov 12, 2016

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• Not all private equity people are evil. Only some.

  Paul Krugman

  Evil, Equity, Private Equity

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• I always had hopes of being a big star. But as you get older, you aim a little lower. Everybody wants to make an impression, some mark upon the world. Then you think, you've made a mark on the world if you just get through it, and a few people remember your name. Then you've left a mark. You don't have to bend the whole world. I think it's better to just enjoy it. Pay your dues, and just enjoy it. If you shoot a arrow and it goes real high, hooray for you.

  Dorian Corey

  Stars, Real, Thinking

  "Fictional character: Dorian Corey". "Paris Is Burning", www.imdb.com. 1990.

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• In real life, you can't get a job as an executive unless you have the educational background and the opportunity. Now the fact that you are not an executive is merely because of the social standing of life... Black people have a hard time getting anywhere. And those that do, are usually straight. In a ballroom, you can be anything you want.

  Dorian Corey

  Jobs, Real, Educational

  ""Paris Is Burning"". Documentary, 1991.

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• I support people having a gun in public full stop, not just in your home. We don't have the right to bear arms because of burglars; we have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government. It's not about duck hunting; it's about the ability of the individual. It's the same reason we have freedom of speech.

  Vince Vaughn

  Home, Gun, Hunting

  "True Detective's Vince Vaughn on gun control, Edward Snowden and comedy". Interview with Jonathan Heaf, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. June 1, 2015.

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• Let's just chant and be good people, alright?

  Krishna Das

  Good People, Be Good, Alright

  Twitter post from Jul 13, 2015

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• There is a glaring FEE in FrEEbie that most of the people, more often than not, fail to see.

  Anuj

  Failing, Fees

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• It is often too easy to explain a novel idea to a few enlightened persons with a few words. But to enlighten about the same to many people, too many words are often required

  Anuj

  Ideas, Few Words, Enlightening

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• Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older.

  Maya Angelou

  Growing Up, Damn, Difficult

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• My art recognizes the human place, the human context - especially in Britain, which is a landscape so worked by people for thousands of years, written, deeply ingrained with the presence of people.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Art, Years, Landscape

  "Andy Goldsworthy Goes Into The Wind". Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 26, 2015.

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• People with leverage have dominance over people with less leverage. In other words, just as humans gained advantages over animals by creating leveraged tools, similarly, humans who use these tools of leverage have more power over humans that do not. Saying it more simply, 'leverage is power'.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Animal, Creating, Tools

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• People read fiction for emotion-not information

  Sinclair Lewis

  Fiction, Information, Emotion

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• A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.

  Ezra Pound

  Writing, Empires, Losing

  Ezra Pound, Michael Dirda (2010). “ABC of Reading”, p.34, New Directions Publishing

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• Bigots are actually funny to me in the way that people who still wear parachute pants give me a chuckle.

  John Ridley

  Giving, Way, Pants

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is not a country on earth whose people don't deserve to be free and safe.

  John Ridley

  Country, Earth, Safe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.'

  John Ridley

  Politician, Obvious, Stating The Obvious

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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