People Quotes - Page 34

• People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided at that level.

  William Hague

  Decision, Needs, Machines

  Foreign policy forum in Berlin, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 23, 2012.

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• Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.

  William Hague

  Country, Common Sense, Independence

  William Hague's Speech to the Spring forum in Harrogate, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2001.

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• Billy Graham talks about how he doesn't judge people. I don't either. Some people I am just pissed at.

  Jessica Hahn

  Judging

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• San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. When they boo you, you know they mean you. Music, that's what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo.

  George Halas

  Mean, Cities, San Francisco

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• Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Mean, Long, Brain

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• On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say that at the time of 'Fair Warning,' I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people's minds I'm just a gunslinger.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Attitude, Kids, Mind

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• Being mean about other people isn't on my radar.

  Geri Halliwell

  Mean, Radar, Mean People

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• A lot of people have said that I've got a voice that speaks to children. I think I've got a natural naivety to me. I'm childish.

  Geri Halliwell

  Children, Thinking, Voice

  "This much I know". Interview with with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2008.

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• I was so afraid of upsetting people, and not being liked for saying something that was not to everyone's taste.

  Geri Halliwell

  Upset, Taste

  "Weak under fire" by Geri Halliwell, blog.gerihalliwell.com. April 11, 2013.

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• It's really important to remember that most people in the public eye are human for a start and a lot of things that you read in the media get slightly misconstrued and manipulated.

  Geri Halliwell

  Eye, Media, Important

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• People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Tired, White, Trying

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• I don't want to be a Michael Moore-style artist, which is not to disparage Michael Moore. But he seems rather unsuccessful at winning people over who don't already agree with him.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Artist, Winning, Style

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• I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Sports, Ice, Judging

  "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.

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• The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Voice, Judging, Facts

  Alexander Hamilton (1962). “Jan.1787-May 1788”

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• Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Government, Failing, Aids

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• I just try to touch people's hearts in a way through skating, so they're not just witnessing a performance, they're feeling a performance and they're a part of it.

  Scott Hamilton

  Sports, Heart, Feelings

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• Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Military, Thinking, Drawing

  The Times, June 27, 1955.

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• I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans.

  Kirk Hammett

  Thinking, Band, Levels

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• I do a lot of work with the Dyslexia Institute because, for people with dyslexia who do not have parental support, it is a huge disadvantage. I was fortunate because my Mum was a teacher and she taught me to work hard.

  Susan Hampshire

  Teacher, Hard Work, Support

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• I am the people, I'm not the pig. You got to make a distinction. And the people are going to have to attack the pigs. The people are going to have to stand up against the pigs. That's what the Panthers is doing, that's what the Panthers are doing all over the world.

  Fred Hampton

  Pigs, Panthers, World

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• Back in the day for me was a great time in my life - I was in my 20s. Most people refer to their experiences in their twenties as being a highlight in their life. It's a period of time where you often develop your own way, your own sound, your own identity, and that happened with me, when I was with a great teacher - Miles Davis.

  Herbie Hancock

  Teacher, Identity, Twenties

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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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• As the proud father of two teens and past Chairman to the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, I am committed to educating parents and especially young people on ways to live a long, healthy and active life.

  Lee Haney

  Sports, Fitness, Father

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• In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

  Nhat Hanh

  Peace, Real, War

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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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