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The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.

- Luc de Clapier

Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.

- Nancy Greene

When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.

- Walter Murch

We try to be real nice and friendly to people, but sometimes they take advantage of that.

- Layne Staley

If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.

- Grandma Moses

The tax relief that this Congress has given now in terms of four tax cuts has overwhelmingly gone to the people at the very top of the income scale in America.

- Richard Neal

People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.

- Rory Bremner

You know, I'm not really any good at working out when people are flirting with me. And I think I'm too flirtatious with people I'm trying not to flirt with! What I am good at is making people feel uncomfortable. I don't want to but it always ends up happening!

- Josh Hartnett

I would have gone right ahead but the only thing, the only phenomenon that's going on now of course, which is different in my experiences, is that you are getting things planted in the Net by people about the Woman in White on the Net. That's not a nice change.

- Andrew Lloyd Webber

Everything that I'm attempting to do is based on my understanding of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and what he wanted for his people.

- Louis Farrakhan

The people have spoken. Their decision is sovereign. We all respect it... I wish good luck to those who will now govern France.

- Alain Juppe

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

- Plato

When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.

- Gerry Adams

I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.

- William E. Simon

The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is.

- Beck

We don't really talk about music that much, to be honest with you. It's not some I usually - I can't really talk about other people's tracks never mind my own.

- Sean Booth

I think the international appeal of SF is quite understandable since the kinds of people who like to read it, are, by the nature of the beast, interested in other cultures, of which other nations on Earth are the closest available example.

- Stanley Schmidt

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

- Jeanette Winterson

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

- Jane Fonda

As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti, to share in their suffering, help rebuild the country, moving from misery to poverty with dignity.

- Jean-Bertrand Aristide

No, no I'm not, no, but I just think... when people are naked it tells you a lot about their relationships.

- Ewan McGregor

Because Larry, by then, was a drummer, who would sort of get bored and tired, and rather stand up and blow kisses to people. So we needed the bass to sort of drive along.

- Neil Innes

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

So the actual riffing came out of us just sitting there and doing it the way I think some people think we really did it, which is all spontaneously, and it really was.

- Joel Hodgson

I think some people found the production took away from the actual songs, which I can understand.

- Emma Anderson

I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth.

- Bill Bryson

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

- Soren Kierkegaard

White people scare the crap out of me.

- Michael Moore

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

- George Bernard Shaw

I had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was this handle with which I could identify myself and understand why I felt so out of whack with the culture around me.

- Betty Buckley