"Some people in England only have their wheelie bins collected once a fortnight. Their suffering is unimaginable."
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"If you give the same 200 frames to 200 different people, they'll all probably pick a different frame. The key is editing. Be intuitive enough to be shooting at the right moment, and when you're seeing the action happening just as you want it, shoot. And in the edit you have to go with your gut."
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"You just have to pay attention to what people need and what has not been done."
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"Indian people are relics; we do not exist in the present."
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"I understand the climate we live in and why people are curious. But it's just tough and almost emotionally violent - for anyone, I think - to see your personal life summarized in a sentence."
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"I know people that have blacked out that I party with that dont do anything irresponsible. They just act drunk, ... I dont think people should ever drink by themselves because they need to have friends around that can keep them in line in case they do blackout."
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"You always get that one customer that decides that your name is boy. Or something. It certainly reinforces a respect I already had for people that are in the hospitality industry."
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"Ordinary people shy away form negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn personal tragedy or misfortune - really anything, everything - to their advantage."
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"I also know how to ask people for money and I have no shame about doing that."
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"I grew up in Ireland, and the ocean was never more than an arm's length away. As lovely as the mountains are and as friendly as the people of Utah are, I feel a bit landlocked here."
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"People equated burning CDs with theft. That's not what burning CDs is. Theft is about acquiring the music from the Internet."
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"The Macintosh was supposed to be the computer for people that just wanted to use a computer without having to learn how to use one."
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"The roots of apple were to build computers for people, not for corporations. The world doesn't need another dell or compaq."
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"I don't mind if people don't like me. Well, I might a little ... but I really mind it when somebody uses their position at Time magazine to tell 10 million people they don't like me. I know what it's like to have your private life painted in the worst possible light in front of a lot of people."
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"There is not the slightest question but that the God of the Old Testament is a jealous, vengeful God, inflicting not only on the sinful pagans but even on his Chosen People fire, lighting, hideous plagues and diseases, brimstone, and other curses."
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"We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat."
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"The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around."
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"I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food."
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"By the laws of statistics we could probably approximate just how unlikely it is that it would happen. But people forget especially those who ought to know better, such as yourself that while the laws of statistics tell you how unlikely a particular coincidence is, they state just as firmly that coincidences do happen."
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"Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show."
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