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“The gap between the young people and the rest of society is that...young people don't have hope.”

“Black people don't know what white people are talking about when they talk about a Sister Souljah moment. I tell them it's the moment you meet a proud, beautiful black woman you can never forget.”

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Author:Sister Souljah

“This career essentially chased me down while I was on the spoken-word scene in New York. I kept hearing that my delivery of my poetry - which was very personal and cathartic at the time- was very moving to folks. People thought that I was an actress because of my delivery, when I was just dropping into the work and really pouring out my soul.”

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Author:Sonja Sohn

“I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points.”

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Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“My own perception of cops was that they came into your neighborhood, they roughed up people that you loved for no reason and took them away. As a child you saw that.”

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Author:Sonja Sohn

“The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from and I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness.”

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Author:Taiye Selasi

“I get angry when people bring derisory actions against me.”

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Author:Alan Sugar

“One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.”

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Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.”

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Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“Something most people don't know about me is that I never grew up.”

People Knows Grew Grew Up

Author:Alexander Siddig

“I think if you're good and you can persuade people you're going to be able to do that role and ultimately the audience buys it, then it doesn't matter whether you were really a chimpanzee in disguise! You've done it.”

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Author:Alexander Siddig

“When one nation is at war with another nation, the political machine does everything it can to vilify the people of the other nation, so it makes it easier to kill them. Which is understandable and it's happened this way throughout history.”

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Author:Alexander Siddig

“You know, I find people with great honesty, bodily, physical honesty, who sit just the way they like to sit, and walk the way they like to walk, and don't come into a room all pumped up, I find them elegant.”

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Author:Alexander Siddig

“Beautiful dreams - if the world were more beautiful they would come true - But the world is relentless & cruel - people are - they must be, I suppose, or they could not live.”

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Book:My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933

Source: My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933

“Before the people at large, and for that matter, the artists themselves, understand what photography really means, as I understand that term, it is essential for them to be taught the real meaning of art.”

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Book:Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

Source: Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

“I've actually suffered from allergies my entire life. My mom had allergies, so I was aware of what an issue they can be. Many people allow their allergies to affect their lives. As a mom with two kids and two jobs, I just can't let allergies slow me down. It's a day to day thing that can really be remedied by finding the right medication.”

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Author:Alison Sweeney

“I just like to have the ideas. Other people can help see them through.”

People Ideas Helping

Author:Amy Sedaris

“Families can be the most detrimental things to have in your life. They are sometimes the most poisonous relationships that people have. Sometimes family is the thing that keeps you from ever achieving what you want to achieve, and yet people hold it and hold it and grab it and try to fix it and twist it and turn it.”

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Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino

“You simply cannot do a sitcom by committee. It will not work. You've got to have one or two clean, creative voices in charge, and there's got to be some faith by the studio and network in those people to make the right choices.”

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Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino

“I would love to do a period piece - in the 18th or 17th century. To me, it would be such an incredible challenge because of the way people carried themselves. There are so many incredible stories within those centuries - just the language and the way they carried themselves and what they were going through.”

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Author:Amy Smart

“I'm not scared to look like a complete fool in front of people. It's just not one of my insecurities.”

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Author:Amy Smart

“Have you ever seen people so ugly that you have to get someone else to verify it?”

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Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“I never argue with people about movies.”

People Arguing

Author:Andrew Sarris

“I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence different directors had.”

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Author:Andrew Sarris

“When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary.”

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Author:Andrew Sullivan

“Between New York and LA, there's 200 million people that aren't hip, and they don't want to be hip.”

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Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people who went to rock concerts. It didn't go beyond that aspiration at that point.”

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Author:Anna Sui

“I don't really mind what people say about my love life or anything like that, but the one thing is that, yes, I do sing and write all my own music. That is something that I hold really dear. And yeah, I made a fool of myself in front of the world, but it was also great to pick myself back up and go on tour.”

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Author:Ashlee Simpson

“Being a comedian, people tell me stuff they shouldn't tell their therapist.”

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Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.”

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Author:Ben Stiller

“I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor.”

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Author:Ben Stiller

“I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“We still have people in the active duty, and if people are feeling ill, if they're experiencing various symptoms and they're still in the active duty, they're less likely to come forward because that could result in their medical discharge.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“Do the elected officials in Washington stand with ordinary Americans - working families, children, the elderly, the poor - or will the extraordinary power of billionaire campaign contributors and Big Money prevail? The American people, by the millions, must send Congress the answer to that question.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“Finally, let understand that when we stand together, we will always win. When men and women stand together for justice, we win. When black, white and Hispanic people stand together for justice, we win.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“There are a lot of smart honest, progressive people who I think can be good presidents.”

People Thinking President Honest Smart Be Good Progressive

Author:Bernie Sanders

“I think the overwhelming majority of the American people know that we have got to stand together, that we're going to grow together, that we're going to survive together, and that if we start splintering, we're not going to succeed in a highly competitive international economy.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“There is nobody that I know who believes that Bank of America is a human being who should be entitled for the same constitutional rights that the people of our country are.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“What the American people want to see in their president is somebody who not necessarily can win every fight, but they want to see him stand up and fight for what he believes, take his case to the American people.”

People Want Believe Fighting Winning President Cases

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Michael Buble is seriously my favorite entertainer. Have you ever seen the guy in concert? He's hilarious. Women love him. Guys want to meet him. He has everything that I wish I could do onstage. And I'm guessin' he's a good-lookin' guy - although he's not one of 'People' magazine's sexiest men.”

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Author:Blake Shelton

“I don't roll like that but I've never been with a hooker either. Yeah, that's good to say in an interview cause I feel bad a little because people grew up watching me and that's a little disturbing.”

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Author:Bob Saget

“I have a feeling I'm going to wake up one day and say 'I can't do dirty stuff anymore, I want to go all clean.' I'll do clean stuff too, I like to entertain people. Then they egged me on; we shot it at The Laugh Factory.”

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Author:Bob Saget

“It's 103 comedians, or however many it is, and how would everyone tell it. It's enough people of substance that it makes you think of the people who aren't there that are alive.”

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Author:Bob Saget

“Paul Riser tells it in an interesting way; he dissects it and tells the structure, you know, 'you don't mention that part here.' But that's what's interesting about it and the people who are absent are interesting too.”

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Author:Bob Saget

“There was this whole middle time that only Chris Rock came out of, you know, 10 years ago it was Chris and a few other people, but that's about it. Chris is in a class of his own; I don't see another comedian who I put in high regard as him.”

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Author:Bob Saget

“Yet there are some people - Steve Allen would dissect comedy forever; he's a really funny guy, but he would love talking about comedy. I'm doing it right now and you all seem bored.”

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Author:Bob Saget

“To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.”

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Author:Brent Scowcroft

“You know, different people are going to react different ways. And I don't think we should be intolerable because people do things a little differently.”

People Thinking Knows Way Should Littles Different Different Ways Different Peoples

Author:Brent Scowcroft

“In fact, people have been very complimentary about my act and very tolerant of my singing ability.”

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Author:Brett Somers

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