People Quotes - Page 17

• Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

  Jean Genet

  Real, Men, History

  Jean Genet, Roger Blin (1969). “Letters to Roger Blin: reflections on the theater”

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• What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don't intend to be one of them.

  Boy George

  Being Sad, Really Sad, Embarrassing

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• People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.

  Richard Gere

  Ideas, Doe

  "The Gere hunter". Interview with Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2002.

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• I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.

  Geronimo

  Sleep, Wind, Tree

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• What I wish is that people would look beyond the tribbles and see I've written some other books that I really would like people to notice. There's The Man Who Folded Himself, there's The Martian Child, which is about my son and the adoption. There's The War Against The Chtorr, which is my magnum opus, my great epic story.

  David Gerrold

  Children, War, Book

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

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• Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.

  Paul Getty

  Couple, Airplane, Rushing

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• You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have positive opinion. Just to make sure that you are blending all these opinions in your mind before a decision is made.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Positive, Decision, Mind

  CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. December 7, 2006.

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• The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Prudent, Convinced

  "Carlos Ghosn: What Japan Needs Is a Vision". Interview with Joyce Barnathan, www.bloomberg.com. December 16, 2002.

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• When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Decision, Ceo

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• But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.

  Barry Gibb

  Sky, Streets

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• Caring for an Alzheimer's patient is a situation that can utterly consume the lives and well-being of the people giving care, just as the disorder consumes its victims.

  Leeza Gibbons

  Caring, Alzheimer's, Giving

  "Leeza Gibbons: Star in the World of Alzheimer’s Caregiving" by Marie Marley, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2016.

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• Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

  Khalil Gibran

  Death, Land, Honor

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• I'm a really good eavesdropper. I listen to what people say and remember all the buzzwords.

  William Gibson

  Remember

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• I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.

  William Gibson

  Ideas, Traditional, Nationalism

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• 'Cyberspace' as a term is sort of over. It's over in the way that, after a certain time, people stopped using the suffix '-electro' to make things cool, because everything was electrical. 'Electro' was all over the early 20th century, and now it's gone. I think 'cyber' is sort of the same way.

  William Gibson

  Thinking, Way, Gone

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. August 22, 2007.

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• I assume that - because you can get degrees in journalism from very reputable universities - I assume that people can be trained to be journalists. I've never been entirely certain that anyone can be trained to be a novelist in the same way.

  William Gibson

  Way, Novelists, Degrees

  Interview with Jesse Hicks, www.theverge.com. January 24, 2012.

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• I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is really, really poor! If you look at the whole history of science fiction, what people have said is going to happen, what writers have said is going to happen, and what actually happened - it's terrible.

  William Gibson

  Thinking, Important, Looks

  "William Gibson on Why Sci-Fi Writers Are (Thankfully) Almost Always Wrong". Interview with Geeta Dayal, www.wired.com. September 13, 2012.

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• I watch for emergent technologies and pay attention to what people say they'll be good for, then see what we actually use them for. It never occurred to me that a tiny telephone with a wireless transceiver would do whatever it is that it's done to us.

  William Gibson

  Technology, Done, Pay

  Interview with Amy Cavanaugh, www.avclub.com. October 14, 2011.

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• I'm quite good friends with the putative director, Vincenzo Natali, and I'm a big fan of his work, but beyond that, I don't like to talk about other people's work work-in-progress.

  William Gibson

  Good Friend, Progress, Directors

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• A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Fear, Leaving, Situation

  Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!: An Autobiography”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Selfish, Selfishness, Childlessness

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• I think sometimes we look at other people's marriages and we think they must always be so happy together. I don't know anybody who's married for a long time who hasn't somehow made room in their love story for the hate and resentment that they sometimes feel toward each other.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Hate, Thinking, Long

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• I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Wedding, Thinking, Want

  "'Eat, Pray, Love' author tackles marriage". Interview with A. Pawlowski, www.cnn.com. January 5, 2010.

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• I've always been afraid of saying no to people because I don't want them to be disappointed and dislike me.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Dislike Me, Want, Saying No

  "Lucky me". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2009.

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• I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran.

  Newt Gingrich

  Religious, Thinking, Should Have

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