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People

«People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist.»
«People expect the clergy to have the grace of a swan, the friendliness of a sparrow, the strength of an eagle and the night hours of an owl - and some people expect such a bird to live on the food of a canary.»
«People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent.»
Author: Gillian Anderson (Actress) | About: People | Keywords: insanely
«People have become inappropriate. People have pushed too far. People have climbed one too many fences. I'm just tired of it.»
«People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.»
«People go 'You look a lot like»
Author: Minnie Driver | About: People
«People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.»
«People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.»
«People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.»
Author: Alice Walker | About: Appearance, People | Keywords: appearance, foolishness
«People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.»