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"The fact is that living the life of your dreams is possible. People prove that every day. Someone somewhere is going to get rich, get healthy and improve their life. My recommendation is this: Let it be you"
"One of the reasons many people don't have what they want is neglect. Neglect starts out as an infection and then develops into a disease."
"Fascination is one step beyond interest. Interested people want to know if it works. Fascinated people want to learn how it works."
"The real genius to make a marketplace flourish doesn't come from the government. It comes from the individual genius of its people."
"The attitude of other people affects each of us and the attitude of each of us has the capacity to affect all of us."
"If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when we’ve got the least excuse for it."
"I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves."
"People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them."
"There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!"
"People always get used to beauty, though.” “I haven’t gotten used to you just yet,” he answered, smiling. I felt myself blushing. “Thank you for coming to Amsterdam,” he said. “Thank you for letting me hijack your wish,” I said. “Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa"
"The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom, that was that. We asked what would happen if the majority wanted something else, if the majority wanted to see Irish unity."
"There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things other people didn't see."
"The main hangup in the world today is hypocrisy and insecurity. If people can't face up to the fact of other people being naked or smoking pot, or whatever they want to do, then we're never going to get anywhere. People have got to become aware that it's none of their business and that being nude is not obscene. Being ourselves is what's important. If everyone practiced being themselves instead of pretending to be what they aren't, there would be peace."
"Pumpkin spice lattes are egg nog for morning people."
"When you see people say crazy things on our show, they mean this stuff,and that's easy to forget: They're not joking."
"There are some times...when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow."
"All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that people are apt to wonder how they ever could have. been tolerated; forgetful that they themselves perhaps tolerate other inequalities under an equally mistaken notion of expediency, the correction of which would make that which they approve seem quite as monstrous as what they have at last learnt to condemn."
"People in life, when they have a tendency to exaggerate or lie or whatever, you always sort of notice that their voice goes up quite high."
"The audience's imagination will do a better, more personalized version of the horror than you can actually paint. So that just, you know, with something like "The Blair Witch Project," which is, you know, whatever, it's 89 minutes of people running through the woods and one minute of, you know, a guy standing in a corner."
"One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do."
