"People tend to like an athlete's performance, but if you don't get a feeling for the individual, you're not very emotive about them."
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"People think of science like somehow that's the answer, and that it's all about right answers, but science is a lens that we look at the world through."
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"I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. I try to separate my performance from myself."
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"I should be very sorry to see the United States holding anyone in confinement on account of any opinion that that person might hold. It is a fundamental tenet of our institutions that people have a right to believe what they want to believe and hold such opinions as they want to hold without having to answer to anyone for their private opinion."
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"Few people are lacking in capacity, but they fail because they are lacking in application."
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"History reveals no civilized people among whom there was not a highly educated class and large aggregations of wealth. Large profits mean large payrolls."
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"Our country represents nothing but peaceful intentions toward all the earth, but it ought not to fail to maintain such a military force as comports with the dignity and security of a great people."
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"We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again."
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"This is what makes sports so amazing, that we can start a discussion around a table, in the newspaper, in the magazines, that will get people's attention. And that's what sports does."
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"When you build a beautiful building, people love it. And the most sustainable building in the world is the one that’s loved."
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"People who publish poetry today do it from a sense that poetry needs to be published, not because they think they are going to make money."
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"It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are."
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"Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people."
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"Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us."
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"In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more."
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"We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America."
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"I love the fight game. I like the brutality. I like the mentality. I like the aggressiveness, but I like the technique and skill. I like the stakes. I like the people around in the gym. I like the everyday, working class feel of a boxing gym."
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"I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music."
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"It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter."
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"You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past."
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