People Quotes

• If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Order, Dies, Nations

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• When you love people, you see all the good in them, all the Christ in them. God sees Christ, His Son, in us and loves us. And so we should see Christ in others, and nothing else, and love them. There can never be enough of it. There can never be enough thinking about it.

  Dorothy Day

  Son, Thinking, And Love

  Dorothy Day, Peter Day (1999). “On Pilgrimage”, p.124, A&C Black

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• No matter what it is, I think people want the answer they want, they don't want the truth.

  Suge Knight

  Thinking, Answers, Want

  "The Life and Times of Suge Knight". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. June 18, 2007.

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• Evil people always support each other; that is their chief strength.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Evil People, Support, Chiefs

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• I'm not too concerned about the future of Perl after me, because I see how these people are interacting with each other and even when I'm not there, they are helping each other and solving each other's problems in a way that I could not do, even if I were there.

  Larry Wall

  Way, Helping, Problem

  "How to Code Like Larry Wall". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• We are on the path toward becoming the Sparta of the 21st century, armed to the teeth and without the capacity to care for our own people.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Teeth, Sparta, Care

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• Categories are gibberish to me. I understand - it helps people organize their thoughts. But you can't go too far with it.

  Fiona Apple

  Helping, Categories, Organize

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. June 4, 2012.

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• White people on Facebook, I discovered by reading people's messages and walls, tended to lurk and judge.

  Katherine Losse

  Wall, Reading, White

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• Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write.

  Russell Simmons

  Country, Inspiration, Writing

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I don't think about being undefeated; I don't think about what people say in the media about me, whether it's good or bad; I just don't think of it.

  Cain Velasquez

  Thinking, Media, Undefeated

  Interview with Johnny Testa, www.askmen.com.

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• In the natural order no matter what ideals may be theoretically possible, most people more or less live for themselves and for their own interests and pleasures or for those of their own family or group, and therefore they are constantly interfering with one another's aims, and hurting one another and injuring one another, whether they mean it or not.

  Thomas Merton

  Hurt, Mean, Order

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.140, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Change terrifies people. They like new, but they don't like new with change.

  Damon Albarn

  Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. January 26, 2009.

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• The more aggressive our ideologies become, the more aggressive our discourse whether it's in the United States, from Washington D.C., or whether it's from Tehran, or from some underground Al-Qaeda cell. The more aggressive that discourse is, the more people of moderate persuasion have to organize and speak a voice of compassion. That means to feel with the other.

  Karen Armstrong

  Mean, Compassion, Voice

  "Big Think Interview With Karen Armstrong". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.

  H. G. Wells

  War, Believe, Doe

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• People always want reasons for things ... but sometimes there are no reasons.

  Jim James

  Want, Sometimes, Reason

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much. I think of Cocoon and Driving Miss Daisy. But they always seem to be fairly successful, so it's a bit baffling as to why everybody has to be treated as if they were five-years-old.

  Maggie Smith

  Successful, Thinking, Elderly

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• A lot of writers come from Harvard and such, and are rich, and they write under the misapprehension that poor people are stupid. So when they do write them, they are hillbillies or rednecks or Christian idiots.

  Norm MacDonald

  Christian, Stupid, Writing

  "Norm MacDonald Has No Problem Paying O.J. Simpson Under the Table". Interview with Abram Sauer, www.esquire.com. April 12, 2011.

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• What brought me to Disney was the new regime, which is now the old regime, came over with Michael Eisner, Frank Wells, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and all these people really wanted to reinvigorate the animated musical, so they came to Howard Ashman and me. That was my entry into Disney.

  Alan Menken

  Musical, Regimes, Animated

  Source: collider.com

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• On Politics: When our people get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being our people.

  M. Stanton Evans

  Can Do

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• If you're having fun, if you're working with people you love working with, then the results are always going to be exciting.

  Jamie Hewlett

  Fun, Results, Exciting

  "Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett". Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. January 26, 2009.

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• I never really listen to what people say. My thing is that my favorite artists are artists that are theatrical. Obviously when you are doing a recording, things aren't gonna translate as over-the-top.

  Adam Lambert

  Artist, My Favorite, Translate

  "BWW Exit Interview: 'IDOL' Adam Lambert". BWW Interview, www.broadwayworld.com. May 23, 2009.

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• The love of writing comes at a very early age. For me, for instance, comic books so affected me. And a lot of people who come up to me and start talking about writing, when I start talking to them about the "Fantastic Four," they look at me aghast. They say, "'The Fantastic Four?' That's not literature." I say, "Yeah, but it was when I was 11 years old." This was literature.

  Walter Mosley

  Book, Writing, Talking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• People are all the same. We need a personal reason to get our asses off the couch.

  Olen Steinhauer

  Needs, Ass, Reason

  Olen Steinhauer (2010). “The Nearest Exit”, Macmillan

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• We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.

  Larry Wall

  Annoyed, Trying, Policy

  "2nd State of the Onion". www.perl.com. August 25, 1998.

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• When permitted to listen to alternative opinions and engage in substantive debate, people have been known to change their minds. It can happen.

  Carl Sagan

  Mind, Alternatives, Opinion

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.550, Ballantine Books

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