People Quotes - Page 28

• Getting sequestered and not really knowing what to do with your time and then discovering, 'Oh, I can watch a bunch of horror movies' has probably played out in a lot of people's discovery of horror.

  Kirk Hammett

  Discovery, Knowing, Watches

  "Metallica's Kirk Hammett discusses vintage horror and geek bonding". Interview with Kenny Herzog, www.avclub.com. October 5, 2012.

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• Horror movies started to wane around the onset of World War II, and after World War II, when all the troops came home, people weren't really interested in seeing horror movies, because they had the real horror right on their front doorsteps.

  Kirk Hammett

  Real, War, Home

  "Metallica's Kirk Hammett discusses vintage horror and geek bonding". Interview with Kenny Herzog, www.avclub.com. October 5, 2012.

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• I'm one of the people who was a pioneer in encouraging musicians, early in the game, to get interested in technology, and now all the musicians are getting into it.

  Herbie Hancock

  Technology, Games, Musician

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• Most people define themselves by what they do - 'I'm a musician.' Then one day it occurred to me that I'm only a musician when I'm playing music - or writing music, or talking about music. I don't do that 24 hours a day. I'm also a father, a son, a husband, a citizen - I mean, when I go to vote, I'm not thinking of myself as 'a musician.'

  Herbie Hancock

  Husband, Father, Writing

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• It's a fact that people who are in a weakened position, whether physically or mentally, have this perception of the outer world as threatening. Everything that is unexpected or unknown is seen as a potential danger.

  Michael Haneke

  Perception, World, Facts

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• It’s harder to write a story with just two people in a room than with 50 characters.

  Michael Haneke

  Writing, Character, Two

  "AFM 2012: 'Amour' Director Michael Haneke on Love and Oscar Buzz (Q&A)". Interview with Scott Roxborough, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 6, 2012.

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• Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

  Nhat Hanh

  Mindfulness, Helping, Well Being

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• The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

  Nhat Hanh

  Real, Teaching, Ignorance

  "The Right Kind of Power". "Beliefnet" Interview, www.beliefnet.com. July 2008.

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• In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask why don't I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden and they abandon their values.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beautiful, Past, Garden

  "Zen and the art of protecting the planet" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2010.

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• Today three-quarters of the Palestinian people are displaced: there are 5 million Palestinian refugees throughout the world.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Three, World, Today

  "1967: Our rights have to be recognised" by Ismail Haniyeh, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2007.

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• The liberals and free people of the world will not like to see the Palestinian people living under siege. We have received indications from the international community that they will not stop their aid.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Community, World, Siege

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• When I said a few weeks ago that our people would eat cooking oil and olives if necessary, I didn't mean that there really would be only oil and olives. What I meant was that our people have the necessary patience to endure the current difficult situation. Palestinians would rather do without certain food items than their national rights.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Patience, Mean, Rights

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• No matter where you are in your life, whatever set of people you're with, it all still breaks down like high school does. You have your social cliques, you have the people you get along with, the people you don't and the people you're ambivalent about. All of the dynamics are still here.

  Colin Hanks

  School, Doe, Dynamics

  "Colin Hanks gets 'Lucky' with killer film, TV show". Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.reuters.com. July 15, 2011.

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• But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.

  Tom Hanks

  Birthday, Thinking, Years

  "Desert island risks". Interview with Danny Leigh, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2001.

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• At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it's got to make people think, 'Hey, I couldn't have spent my time any better.'

  Tom Hanks

  Funny, Movie, Thinking

  "The Cast Of ‘Larry Crowne’ Weighs In On Tom Hanks & This Summer’s Anti-Tentpole" by Leah Zak, www.indiewire.com. June 28, 2011.

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• Some people are cowards... I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards, and a third are heroes. Now, a villain and a coward can choose to be a hero, but they've got to make that choice.

  Tom Hanks

  Hero, Thinking, Choices

  "Captain Courageous". "The Citizen" Interview, citizen.co.za. June 11, 2013.

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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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• 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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• After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.

  Martha Gellhorn

  War, Years, Spain

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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