People Quotes - Page 35

• Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Running, Regret, Past

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• I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Spring, Democracy, Reform

  "Hamas ditches Assad, backs Syrian revolt". www.reuters.com. February 24, 2012.

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• I ask the American administration not to participate in any resolution that will double the suffering of the Palestinian people. I am convinced that the American people would not want to see the Palestinians suffer the way they do.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Suffering, Want, Way

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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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• We repeat today that we are with the establishment of a Palestinian state on any liberated part of Palestinian land that is agreed upon by the Palestinian people, without recognizing Israel or conceding any inch of historical Palestine.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Israel, Land, Historical

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• I don't cause riots, but I do cause confusion. People freeze when they spot me.

  Tom Hanks

  Confusion, Causes, Spots

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. September, 2001.

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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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• I think 80 percent of the population are really great, caring people who will help you and tell you the truth. That's just the way it is. And I think 20 percent of the population are crooks and liars. It's just a fact.

  Tom Hanks

  Liars, Caring, Thinking

  "Tom Hanks: I'm not always a nice guy". Interview with Tracy Smith, www.cbsnews.com. June 5, 2012.

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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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• There is something basic about protecting land by taking it off the market. People should be able to enjoy where they live while at the same time protect the plants and animals around them.

  Tom Hanks

  Animal, Land, Able

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• There's a small percentage of people who can act. There's a small percentage who get to do this for a living. There's a swath of the population that are able to keep a story in their head and fight all the battles against self-consciousness and the surreal unnaturalness of acting in a movie. The technical aspects you can learn fairly quickly.

  Tom Hanks

  Fighting, Self, Battle

  "Tom Hanks Talks Captain Phillips, Meeting the Real Title Character, Filming on a Lifeboat, Shooting the Movie’s Final Scene and Working with the U.S. Navy". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 8, 2013.

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• When I work, a lot of times I have to lose weight, and I do that, but in my regular life I was not eating right, and I was not getting enough exercise. But by the nature of my diet and that lifestyle - boom! The end result was high blood sugars that reach the levels where it becomes Type 2 diabetes. I share that with a gajillion other people.

  Tom Hanks

  Exercise, Blood, Type 2 Diabetes

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• Certain people are like 'Oh, here come the Feminazis!' You end up acting 10 times nicer than you even need to be, to be the opposite of the stereotype like 'You're the man haters!' We're always bending over backwards being extra nice. And I don't know if being nice is my legacy.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Nice, Men, Opposites

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• I'm really annoyed by the wave of country music that's just a list of stuff. It almost sounds like L.A. people writing country music, because it's just a list of stuff: 'My pickup truck and my cowboy boots and my Levi's jeans and my girlfriend with the short shorts.' It's so boring!

  Kathleen Hanna

  Country, Girlfriend, Writing

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• Not to rag on myself, but when people say, 'What does it feel like to be an icon?' I'm like, 'My dog does not think I'm an icon, my cat does not think I am an icon, my cousin does not think I am an icon.' I have a really lovely group of friends, and I just don't think about it.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Dog, Cousin, Cat

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• The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.

  Garrett Hardin

  Majority, Coercion, Kind

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• Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

  Thomas Hardy

  Real, Honor, Obscurity

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• I think people were expecting me to be that kind of glamorous sexpot. So they were always, Wow you're not what I expected.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Thinking, Wow, Kind

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• I am intrigued with the shapes people choose as their symbols to create a language. There is within all forms a basic structure, an indication of the entire object with a minimum of lines that becomes a symbol. This is common to all languages, all people, all times.

  Keith Haring

  Lines, Shapes, Common

  Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.64, Penguin

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• I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me.

  Dan Harmon

  Trying, Littles, Wisconsin

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• If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

  Stephen Harper

  Government, Minorities, Want

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• Sometimes I feel people think I live on a commune but I don't. We are all solar, though. There are no power lines. It's mostly farmers, so everyone who has tractors uses bio-diesel.

  Woody Harrelson

  Thinking, Use, Lines

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• I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.

  Ed Harris

  Matter, Intriguing, Film

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• As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble.

  Emmylou Harris

  Sadness, Thoughtful, Thinking

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• My heroes and heroines are often unlikely people who are dragged into situations without meaning to become involved, or people with a past that has never quite left them. They are often isolated, introspective people, often confrontational or anarchic in some way, often damaged or secretly unhappy or incomplete.

  Joanne Harris

  Hero, Past, Unhappy

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