People famous quotes
Last updated: Jul 22, 2024
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People say I'm injury-prone but that's definitely not true.
-- Adrian Peterson -
I want people to come to the game to see what I will do next.
-- Adrian Peterson -
I know that many people disagree with the way I disciplined my child. I also understand after meeting with a psychologist that there are other alternative ways of disciplining a child that may be more appropriate.
-- Adrian Peterson -
Friend, you cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. And what one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government can't give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody. And when half of the people get the idea they don't have to work because the other half's going to take care of them, and when the other half get the idea it does no good to work because somebody's going to get what I work for. That, dear friend, is about the end of any nation.
-- Adrian Rogers -
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It is more important to influence people than to impress them.
-- Adrian Rogers -
I feel sorry for people who do not have a Bible to lean on.
-- Adrian Rogers -
Some people brighten up a room just by leaving it.
-- Adrian Rogers -
A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.
-- Adrian Rogers -
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Never, never, never join a movement that persecutes people because of their faith.
-- Adrian Rogers -
Progress is made by the improvement of people, not the improvement of machines.
-- Adrian Tchaikovsky -
Fashion is about good energy. It's about feelings. That's what I have to give the people, good energy and good feelings.
-- Adriana Lima -
I don't like fights. I don't like aggressive people.
-- Adriana Lima -
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Every work has the bad side, and people will be mean to you, and when you're young, you don't know how to defend yourself.
-- Adriana Lima -
If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, its that they honor working people.
-- Adriana Trigiani -
People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother's house. I never knew my grandmothers, but I could always count of the Bookmobile.
-- Adriana Trigiani -
Mama always said a good family has one heartbeat. No one knows you like the people you live with, and no one will take up your cause to the outside world quite like your blood relatives.
-- Adriana Trigiani -
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When people are filled to the brim with love, they are their most beautiful.
-- Adriana Trigiani -
It's great when people appreciate your work, but I don't know how seriously to take it. The amazing thing is that I found something so early that I can support myself doing, and that can even be extremely lucrative, but I love it either way.
-- Adrien Brody -
It's interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and in another sense, you'd think that you'd be able to convey more through dialogue.
-- Adrien Brody -
It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness, and the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world, I take a lot less for granted.
-- Adrien Brody -
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People think fame and money will bring you happiness. Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.
-- Adrien Brody -
I would spend some of it. I would help a lot of people around me. I will change a lot of people's lives around me, honestly.
-- Adrien Broner -
I don't try to knock people out, but I have the ability to press him and get the cheese.
-- Adrien Broner -
Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly.
-- Adrienne Clarkson -
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I had the honor to meet Geraldine Ferraro on a few occasions over the years at the DNC and what struck me was how she managed to be both gutsy and graceful at the same time. Without a doubt she was a trailblazer who not only stepped outside the box but who dared to redefine it. I always left her presence with the sense that she truly knew what she was talking about but that she never felt the need to browbeat you with it - instead she inspired people to listen and then act, and to me thats the hallmark of a true leader.
-- Adrienne Maloof -
I can easily do without people (there are days when I could easily do without myself), and ... in the country of books where I dwell, the dead can count entirely as much as the living.
-- Adrienne Monnier -
The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual - all of that fermenting together. It can speak to people who have themselves felt like monsters and say: you are not alone, this is not monstrous. It can disturb and enrapture.
-- Adrienne Rich -
We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
-- Adrienne Rich -
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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
-- Adrienne Rich -
War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.
-- Adrienne Rich -
If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.
-- Adrienne Rich -
The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.To "see the light" too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
-- Adrienne Rich -
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Fear is very often a part of the spiritual path. When people sit down and meditate it's not at all uncommon for fear to arise at some point.
-- Adyashanti -
The proof of the depth and embodiment of your realization will be seen in your love relationship. That's where the proof is in the pudding. If it all collapses in your relationship, you have some work to do. And people do have a lot of difficulties in their relationships.
-- Adyashanti -
I think talented people are priceless. And I think people that are knowledgeable and experienced - and I think there's a balance of new talent and experience, which makes, I think, Estee Lauder really special.
-- Aerin Lauder -
There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.
-- Aeschylus -
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People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
-- Aesop -
Up to here, in general, we have mainly stuffed the brain of the young people with a indigestible multitude of varios notions, without thinking about enough of the prime necessity to form their character.
-- African Spir -
The first principle from which stems the moral of about all people at all time; it is summarized in this precept: Love thy neighbour as thyself, and: do as you would be done by.
-- African Spir -
November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world, people of all nationalities, young people, all the political systems and politicians on the planet.
-- Afrika Bambaataa -
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Hip-hop has been hijacked by a Luciferian conspiracy. People have used hip-hop in a lot of ways that cause a lot of mind problems. They use the word wrongfully. They use it to mean a part instead of a whole.
-- Afrika Bambaataa -
You have to look at the fact that Hip Hop is under attack. It's not just Hip Hop but Black people, Latino people and all people are under attack for different things.
-- Afrika Bambaataa -
They're keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color, which is Black and Latino, which is our family.
-- Afrika Bambaataa -
People get caught up in worshipping certain rappers, or they try to demonise hip hop by looking at what certain rappers are doin' in their lives.
-- Afrika Bambaataa -
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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
-- Afrika Bambaataa -
I'd like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the political side of what hip hop could do, or where hip hop is gonna go. I always say it's gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
-- Afrika Bambaataa -
Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what's around them.
-- Afrika Bambaataa -
There's a lot of people over time who have brought out all these funky records that everybody has started jumping on like a catch phrase... When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
-- Afrika Bambaataa -
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It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)
-- Agatha Christie -
I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there.
-- Agatha Christie -
It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again." Yes, it is very true, that. And it is just what some people will not do. They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant.
-- Agatha Christie -
The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.
-- Agatha Christie -
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The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.
-- Agatha Christie -
People who can be very good can be very bad too.
-- Agatha Christie -
I never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves,†said Joanna. “It arouses all my worst instincts.
-- Agatha Christie -
In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean?
-- Agatha Christie -
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fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.
-- Agatha Christie -
People should be interested in books, not their authors.
-- Agatha Christie -
You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.
-- Agatha Christie -
She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.
-- Agatha Christie -
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When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!
-- Agatha Christie -
The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.
-- Agha Hasan Abedi -
Real management is developing people through work.
-- Agha Hasan Abedi -
One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
-- Agnes de Mille -
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Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.
-- Agnes de Mille -
People have too many problems during the day; they don't want to think.
-- Agnes Denes -
People are always fighting reality until it's pushed down their throats.
-- Agnes Denes -
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
-- Agnes Denes -
I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it's a very mysterious thing, isn't it? I think it's a response in our minds to perfection. It's too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
-- Agnes Martin -
The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.
-- Agnes Obel -
The gospel of cheerfulness, I had almost said the gospel of amusement, is preached by people who lack experience to people who lack vitality. There is a vague impression that the world would be a good world if it were only happy, that it would be happy if it were amused, and that it would be amused if plenty of artificial recreation - that recreation for which we are now told every community stands responsible - were provided for its entertainment.
-- Agnes Repplier -
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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
-- Agnes Repplier -
There are people who balk at small civilities on account of their manifest insincerity. ... It is better and more logical to accept all the polite phraseology which facilitates intercourse, and contributes to the sweetness of life. If we discarded the formal falsehoods which are the currency of conversation, we should not be one step nearer the vital things of truth.
-- Agnes Repplier -
People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
-- Agnes Repplier -
People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
-- Agnes Repplier -
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What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?
-- Agnes Repplier -
In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
-- Agnes Varda -
If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
-- Agnes Varda -
When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!
-- Agnetha Faltskog -
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I am uninterested in appearing in newspapers and on television. Many people think I am striking a pose - that I want to create a sense of shyness. But it's just not something I want to do. I overdosed.
-- Agnetha Faltskog -
When people are coming to Krakow and we show them how and where we practice, they are like, 'Seriously? Are you kidding me?' But we're always saying that what matters about the courts - the lines, the nets - are the same. I'm practicing in Poland even when I don't have good facilities.
-- Agnieszka Radwanska -
First, we must liberate people from religion, as religion is understood and practiced today. Second, we must effect a paradigm shift from religiosity to shared spirituality.
-- Agnivesh -
People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.
-- Aharon Appelfeld -
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The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.
-- Aharon Appelfeld -
If people can write to each other across space, why can they not write across time too?
-- Ahdaf Soueif -
I am ready to serve the people of Afghanistan, particularly in order to restore peace. I will be ready to assume any duty at the service of my people.
-- Ahmad -
The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.
-- Ahmad Jamal -
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You've got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you're gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn't work that way.
-- Ahmad Jamal -
All people hope Islam helps everything in life. Islam will make jobs. Islam will make freedom. Islam will make everything.
-- Ahmed Ali -
I think that they participated in something that was not very proper and was very pitiful, not only for the Algerian people, but also for the other people who counted on our support.
-- Ahmed Ben Bella -
It doesn't bother me that people are stupid. I'm not stupid.
-- Ahmed Best -
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To handle the economy and services in a country like Iraq requires delegation of authority and the choice of competent people.
-- Ahmed Chalabi -
I call on the international community to be fair to the Iraqi people. My position is that we respect international resolutions but in return demand justice and accountability for those who stole Iraq's money.
-- Ahmed Chalabi -
The Iraqi people are living a long-running tragedy because of the legacy of the old regime, the Americans and their actions that are unsuitable for Iraqi society, and the weakness of national resolve.
-- Ahmed Chalabi -
The issue of terrorism must be dealt with firmly. We must work very hard to avoid loss of life. We must work very hard to avoid civilian casualties. And those terrorists and Baathists are holding the people of Fallujah hostage. We must release the hostages.
-- Ahmed Chalabi -
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Perhaps the most valuable thing he taught me (his father) was that there is no contradiction between devotion to work and enjoyment of life and people
-- Ahmed H. Zewail -
Since Israel does not differentiate between attacking this group or that, we are saying our people can work individually or collectively to face this aggression.
-- Ahmed Yassin -
The attacks inside Israel are operations we carry out in response to Israeli crimes against our people.
-- Ahmed Yassin -