People Quotes - Page 18

• There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Years, Woven, Way

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Three plays”

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• They have this big book called the 'DSM-IV,' you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is a book that is written by crazy people!

  William Glasser

  Crazy, Book, Thinking

  Myrtle Beach Conference on Reality Therapy, March 28, 2008.

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• I think I can only help to expose percussion to all sorts of people. The balance between the lighter and more serious side is important.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Thinking, Balance, Important

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• But I think it's very key that there's a plan for Haiti. And we have to begin to - as progressives and people who are concerned about Haiti and have been concerned about Haiti, we have to begin to build some sort of consensus, a movement around the Haiti that the Haitians envision.

  Danny Glover

  Thinking, Keys, Movement

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• Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed. They want to be missed the day they don't show up. They want to be missed when they're gone.

  Seth Godin

  Want, Gone, Shows

  "Can Ordinary People Become Leaders?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. January 17, 2014.

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• What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It's about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it's something that people have wanted forever.

  Seth Godin

  Simple, Ideas, Years

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• Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.

  Seth Godin

  School, Government, Fading Away

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• A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Noble, Nobility, Persons

  "Torquato Tasso". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act 1, Scene 1, 1790.

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• I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Thinking, Trying, Reform

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• The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Absence, Absent, Ideals

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• There are roles I am never considered for. Meryl Streep roles, let's say. Why not? I really wanted to do 'Ironweed,' for example, because the depression era in this country was one of the best for multiracial people, because everybody was poor. Everybody lived in the tents, and under buildings, and under gratings, together.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Country, Together, Roles

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• This was one of the places people told me to go, it was one the big trips that you should see: Alaska.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Alaska, Should, Bigs

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• But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.

  Bob Geldof

  Depression, Views, Etc

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• It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.

  Bob Geldof

  Simple, Politics, Needs

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• Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Car, Age, Complaining

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• Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Lying, Deceit, Taste

  Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The Face of War”, p.1, Atlantic Monthly Press

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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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• How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century when they tried to get democracy nationally. Now we need it internationally.

  Susan George

  Democracy, Needs, Levels

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• Billions of people don't practice a religion at all.

  Richard Gere

  Practice, Billions

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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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• There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.

  Ricky Gervais

  Inspiration, School, Humor

  Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 12, 2012.

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

  Barry Gibb

  Sky, Streets

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• Losing people makes you realize you've got to grab life - not put things off.

  Robin Gibb

  Losing, Realizing

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

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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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