Best People Often Quotations
209 People Often quotes by 191 unique authors
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My philosophy is that I am a friend of the children. I don't think anyone should see them as pitiable subjects or charity. That is…
— Kailash Satyarthi
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People often mistake technology for a static picture. It's less like a picture and more like a movie. It's the velocity of technology innovation that…
— Elon Musk
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Apart from anything else, I got to work with Jennifer Lawrence. She’s a lovely girl. I know people often say things like that in interviews, but…
— Julianne Moore
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People often say that blindness sharpens hearing, but I don't think this is so. My ears were hearing no better, but I was making better…
— Jacques Lusseyran
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People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.
— Richard Russo
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Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. The sternest-seeming stoic is human after all, and…
— Charlotte Bronte
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People often ask, why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages…
— David Petraeus
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At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m “passing the torch.” I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank…
— Gloria Steinem
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I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are.
— B.F. Skinner
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People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.
— Gyorgy Ligeti
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I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.
— Gene Robinson
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Making a film or doing a play are completely different experiences and entirely fulfilling, but completely unique. I also think one complements the other. People…
— Eddie Redmayne
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People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what…
— Stephen Rea
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People often ask why I left CNN - I didn't like management. I liked my colleagues in the news gathering but the corporate culture that…
— Greta Van Susteren
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People often pulled into Scientology want to address personal problems in their life, and Scientology says we have technology that addresses these kinds of problems.…
— Lawrence Wright
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People often ask where I get my inspiration from, and I always say I have no good answer because, well, inspiration comes from everywhere: people,…
— Richelle Mead
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Today, people often make the American mistake of confusing acquaintances with friends. The former are there to share life's pleasures; only the latter should be…
— Julian Fellowes
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When a friend needs consoling, do not give in to the temptation of telling stories similar to theirs of disaster or bereavement. It is something…
— Giles Andreae
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People often ask why comedy is harder for women, and the reason is because a tampon will sometimes fall out when you're on stage. Blokes…
— Jenny Eclair
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I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.
— Danny Boyle
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People often argue about this. Obviously one of the skills in performance is acting, and you can't expect every Romeo to really be in love…
— Deborah Bull
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Dying people often become childish.
— Georg Buchner
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Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often away. But when I'm…
— Alexander Downer
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