People Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• People like scary stories. There's a fascination with fear themes, and we want to face those things in a weird, subconscious way.

  Mel Gibson

  Scary Stories, Fascination, Want

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• I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.

  William Gibson

  Writing, Scary, Survival

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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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• All my life I've encountered people who were obsessed with one particular class of object or experience, who were constantly pursuing that thing. Since I was a little kid, I hadn't afforded myself the opportunity, I guess, to have a hobby.

  William Gibson

  Kids, Opportunity, Class

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

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• I like the idea of people who've had some success in one form secretly wanting to be something else; I have some of that myself. I look for it in other people who've established themselves in some particular art form, and then you find out that they really would like to design running shoes, or edit literary magazines or something.

  William Gibson

  Running, Art, Shoes

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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 would like to design what people generally call streetwear. I'd like to dress skateboarders, or whatever the older equivalent of skateboarders are. I pay more attention to that stuff than anyone would ever imagine because I'm watching what the designers do.

  William Gibson

  Design, Pay, Stuff

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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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• I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.

  Roland Gift

  Change, Nice, Thinking

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

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• I am far more of a loner than people would imagine. But I am the most gregarious and socially interactive loner you ever met. The thing is, I am fascinated by people's stories and I'm very talkative and can't ever say no to anything or anyone, so I tend to over-socialize, to give away too much of my time to the many people I adore.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Giving, Loner, Stories

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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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• What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it's that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can't wait too long. It's the single simplest measure to predict divorce.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Divorce, Thinking, Long

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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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• I will continue to find ways to help poor people find a job, get a job, and learn someday to own the job.

  Newt Gingrich

  Jobs, Way, Helping

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• People are complex. You can be smart and still look hot. You can be a punk rocker yet have a refined vocabulary. It's all about this mashup that makes us who we are and I think that's a beautiful thing.

  Nadia Giosia

  Beautiful, Smart, Thinking

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• I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Distance, Giving, Interesting

  "Living Legends: An Interview With the Incomparable Nikki Giovanni". Interview with Matthew Lynch, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2012.

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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 love out-of-the-way, rugged places. For me, holidays are about the experiences, and the people, and the memories, rather than sitting on a nice beach getting tanned. I try to plant myself where I am and embrace what is there in front of me.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Beach, Memories, Nice

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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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• Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.

  Seth Godin

  Blow, Years, Wind

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• And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.

  Seth Godin

  Our World, Numbers, Tribes

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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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