People Quotes - Page 31

• 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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• I don't know if I change my act from century to century. Sometimes I'm onstage doing imitations and references to people who have been dead for 50 years.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Years, Sometimes, Imitation

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• Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.

  Ellie Goulding

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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

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• I've always said that Adele has turned so many people on to British singers - whether female singers or just like music from this country in general.

  Ellie Goulding

  Country, Female, Singers

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

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• I don't really have a style icon but I really admire the way people dress like Gaga, Rihanna and Gwen Stefani. It's good to be inspired by singers who write music and dress incredibly - rather than models and people in the fashion industry who dress immaculately anyway because it's their style.

  Ellie Goulding

  Fashion, Writing, Icons

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

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• I think all the covers I do have nice sentiments, particularly 'Your Song.' People write me very sweet messages about that song, though I'm sure there are people out there saying that I've ruined it too!

  Ellie Goulding

  Song, Sweet, Nice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Expectations, Each Day, Littles

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• Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.

  Baltasar Gracian

  What Matters, Common, Tragic Endings

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• I'm not an analyzer. I've got a son that analyzes everything and everybody. But I don't analyze people.

  Billy Graham

  Son

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• If you'd have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn't know what you were talking about. And then, they'd be against it.

  Billy Graham

  Talking, Said, Evangelical

  "I hope they'll say that he was faithful". Interview with Katie Couric, www.today.com. June 23, 2005.

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• If anything, we should feel sorry for the people who want us to feel bad about ourselves, because they are the ones struggling for approval. In middle school, bullies tortured other kids because they thought it would make people like them more.

  Ariana Grande

  Sorry, Struggle, School

  "Even Performers Like Me Get Bullied" by Ariana Grande, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.

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• I can't stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people - it really cheers me up.

  Ariana Grande

  Cheer, Stress, School

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• I think that autistic brains tend to be specialized brains. Autistic people tend to be less social. It takes a ton of processor space in the brain to have all the social circuits.

  Temple Grandin

  Thinking, Space, Brain

  "A Conversation with Temple Grandin". "Talk of the Nation Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 20064.

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• I love being with my children. They're fascinating people.

  Amy Grant

  Children, My Children, Fascinating

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• I write about everything, but I just - how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of other people and life and all that.

  Amy Grant

  Writing, Color, Filters

  "Singer-songwriter Amy Grant". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 17, 2013.

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• It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal.

  Amy Grant

  Cheer, Tears, Want

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• It always depresses me when people moan about how commercial Christmas is. I love everything about it. The tradition of having this great big feast, slap bang in the middle of winter, is an essential thing to look forward to at the end of the year.

  Richard E. Grant

  Christmas, Depressing, Winter

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• Acting is a smaller piece in a big puzzle. There are charity things I want to immerse myself in and want to have the time to go and give back to people who don't have the opportunities I have. It's a very important thing to me.

  Ashley Greene

  Opportunity, Giving, Important

  Interview With Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.

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• A lot of people like to be supertiny, but I don't want a child's body - I want a woman's body that is extremely fit. It's so much sexier.

  Ashley Greene

  Children, Body, Want

  "Get a body like 'Twilight’s' Ashley Greene". Women's Health Interview, www.foxnews.com. November 16, 2012.

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• For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually phrased using mathematics.

  Brian Greene

  Development, Modern, Mathematics

  BookBrowse Interview, www.bookbrowse.com.

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• Science is very good at answering the 'how' questions. 'How did the universe evolve to the form that we see?' But it is woefully inadequate in addressing the 'why' questions. 'Why is there a universe at all?' These are the meaning questions, which many people think religion is particularly good at dealing with.

  Brian Greene

  Thinking, Form, Very Good

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• There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Powerful, Fate, Player

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• With our website we didn't want people to come to our site and find out about Radiohead. We wanted them to come to our site and find out about what Radiohead are finding out about.

  Colin Greenwood

  Want, Radiohead, Site

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

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• Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require "educational practices and socializing agents" even more effective than the ones that have been relentlessly loading female humans with responsibility for other people's behavior from their earliest childhood.

  Germaine Greer

  Educational, Responsibility, Practice

  "Guilt poisons women" by Germaine Greer, www.cnn.com. March 12, 2013.

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• Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.

  Judd Gregg

  Tv Shows, Tvs, Senators

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