People Quotes - Page 30

• 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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• The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Death, Funeral, Reason

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• Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father.

  Daniel Goleman

  Motivational, Father, Skills

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• I have a lot of wonderful people in my life - probably five, collectively - who I can tell everything to.

  Selena Gomez

  Wonderful, Five, I Can

  "Exclusive Interview: Selena Gomez". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. May 3, 2011.

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• Success is nothing if you don't have the right people to share it with, you're just gonna end up lonely.

  Selena Gomez

  Lonely, Share, Ends

  "Selena Gomez Dishes About Dating in Hollywood, What She Wants in a Guy and Her 21st Birthday Plans". Interview with Bruna Nessif, www.eonline.com. July 21, 2013.

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• We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.

  Jane Goodall

  Environmental, Needs, World

  "Summit Says: Instant Interviews". www.dailysummit.net. August 26, 2002.

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• In Tanzania, the chimps are isolated in a very tiny patch of forest. I flew over it 13 years ago and realized that, basically, all the trees had gone, that people all around the park are struggling to survive. It became very clear that there was no way to protect the chimps while the people were in this dire circumstance.

  Jane Goodall

  Struggle, Years, Tree

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• I made some friends at Listerine and they taught me a little bit about oral care. That half of adults suffer from oral disease, that the number one chronic disease among children is oral disease, that we're only taking care of 25% of our mouths when brushing alone and there are more germs in your mouth than there are people on the planet.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Children, Numbers, Suffering

  "What Made Ginnifer Goodwin 'Freak The Fudge Out?'". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. February 7, 2013.

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• People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Birthday, Giving

  Nadine Gordimer (2005). “Get a Life”

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• When I was a teenager, if anyone recognized me for anything I did, it would ruin my day. I couldn't handle it. It was some sort of neurotic phobia. I guess I was paranoid that people would treat me differently, or in an unfair way, because of my job.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Jobs, Teenager, Way

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• Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Character, Plot, Stereotype

  "Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. September 28, 2011.

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• The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives, and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.

  Al Gore

  War, Heart, Numbers

  "U.S. steps up global fight against AIDS" by John King, Richard Roth and Steve Salvatore, www.cnn.com. January 10, 2000.

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• The signs that the world is spinning out of kilter are increasingly difficult to misinterpret. The question is how to convince enough people to join a critical mass of urgent opinion, in the U.S. and the rest of the world.

  Al Gore

  World, Spinning, Opinion

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• When people flirt with despair about the future, they are less likely to take the actions necessary to safeguard it, focusing instead on the short-term.

  Al Gore

  Flirting, Despair, Action

  "Al Gore, ‘Inconvenient Truth’ Author And Global-Warming Expert, Talks About Change". Interview with Leigh Haber, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 29, 2013.

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• For now, I'm just going to keep doing the work and hope I don't get fired. If people want to put me up on their walls, I'll love it.

  Ryan Gosling

  Wall, Want, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think a lot of people have too much time on their hands.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Thinking, Hands, Too Much

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2005.

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• I'm one of those people that picks up the remote control and just keep hitting constantly, even if I like the show I'm watching.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Hitting, Remote Control, Shows

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• A lot of people who claim they're political comedians are just comedians who have opinions. But they stop being funny the minute they give their opinions.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Giving, Political, Comedian

  "Gottfried's key to political humor". Interview with Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. August 2, 2013.

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