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AMIT KALANTRI Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, w...
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VINCENT BUGLIOSI People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.
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RICKY SCHRODER All right, warden. Let's give them what they want.
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JENNIFER WISLER An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA If the best they can do in telling us what is right with them and what is wrong with us is that they...
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JIM MORRISON They can all hit the 3, they can all penetrate and they can all play defense. It just took awhile be...
DEAN DUQUETTE We observe the same time all year. In Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec, they want to be fully synchroniz...
HARVEY BROOKS people who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don't, nothing will work o...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.
D. A. PENNEBAKER Let people pick the game apart as much as they want. Let them be as critical as they want. We got th...
DALLAS CLARK Solitary people, these book lovers. I think it's swell that there are people you don't have to worry...
HELEN OYEYEMI I am not afraid of people who say all the wrong things that make others gasp in disbelief. I am afra...
C. JOYBELL C. The simple fact is people want help from who they want it from and chose to associate with whom they...
TROY GATHERS We ask them how many people they need to seat, how they want to use the space and what's important t...
CORY CURTIS These people are obsessive. They go overboard interpreting verbal and behavioral cues that take them...
CARY COOPER all streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. humility gives it its power. if you w...
LAO TZU all streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. humility gives it its power. if you w...
STEPHEN MITCHELL All we've been hearing all week is, 'David vs. Goliath. Well, in the real story, who won? David, rig...
ERIK HANSEN The battle going on over gay marriage in America reveals an awful lot. The Bible belt - people hate ...
IAN MCKELLEN Angry people want you to see how powerful they are... loving people want you to see how powerful You...
CHIEF RED EAGLE Men know everything - all of them- all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant ...
ANDREA DWORKIN Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant...
ANDREA DWORKIN Sometimes I Google myself just to see what people are saying. But we all do that. If someone tells y...
HAILEY BALDWIN People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the ann...
MICHAEL LEWIS They may not think they get all the right equipment all the time, or that they get all the support o...
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BETH WOOD People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.
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ERIK HANSON And he said unto them, How say they that Christ is David's son? / And David himself saith in the boo...
BIBLE We are constantly reminding them that they are in a competition. I had a word with all my contestant...
GARY BARLOW They know that people need witches; they need the unofficial people who understand the difference be...
TERRY PRATCHETT They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks.
ANDY SLYKE They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks.
ANDY VAN SLYKE Fuck, she was so sick of herself—herself and her fucking emotional retardation. How did people do ...
STACIA KANE People ask me all the time, 'Are you fed up with reality TV?' At the end of the day, it can ...
JOSH HENDERSON I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be...
EDITH PEARLMAN I think we want to win even more this year. They now know how close they are to the top level teams....
MIKE HOWARD People are entitled to different opinions and views. Just because somebody doesn't agree with you do...
DEON POTGIETER Most people think that when it's time to buy a car, they should immediately go to the dealerships to...
DONNA KANE A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it does...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY Friends give me a hard time about the pants I'm wearing, which are made in China. Well, how do y...
ADAM MCKAY You have the right to set ground rules. This means deciding if, when, and how you want to see the pe...
ELLEN BASS Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells...
FAITH HILL Remember that people who seek to do evil can play hit and miss all they want. People who are seeking...
JOHN PATRICK HICKEY Anyone can get people out when they are throwing the ball right where they want to. But that doesn't...
CARL WILLIS Anyone can get people out when they are throwing the ball right where they want to, ... But that doe...
CARL WILLIS Science tells us how some things work. People tell us how things could work. Religion tells us how t...
CAROL COVIN If we are believing that part-time residents are the ones owning all these trophy homes, then we are...
LAURA LEWIS I want these girls to take away (from the conference) that they can be anything. They can do anythin...
JENNY CHAMBERLAIN The kind of lies that someone tells us gives us an idea of how stupid, knowledgeable, intelligent, o...
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IAIN STEWART David even has a list of facial expressions. He tells you which one he wants you to use for a specif...
ANNA FARIS ...people live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true... that is how they define ...
KISHIMOTO MASASHI UCHIHA ITACHI - CHAPTER 385 In reality there are no limitations. They are vibrant and changeable to whatever form you want them ...
STEPHEN RICHARDS You don't want them to be around a bunch of people because then you'll have a whole team infected. B...
BOBBY PIERCE We want them to put a label on the fur that tells exactly how the animals lived and died. If the fur...
MATT ROSSELL People can talk all they want; that doesn't affect how I go about my business.
COLIN KAEPERNICK I think people right now, the age they are, being 21 and 22, really do want to find a group of bands...
JOHN MAYER Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when...
NANCY BANKS SMITH Terrible thing to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be bac...
STEPHEN KING It is the first time for many to get to know the plans and the people involved. They have seen the d...
ALEX GILADY People always joke that "dog" spells "god" backwards. They should consider that it might be the high...
LINDA BLAIR Don’t tell me my writing is misogynistic or anti-feminist just because I or my heroines like to be...
R.B. O'BRIEN It just all depends on what people are pursuing, if they want to pursue a career right away, or if t...
CHRIS SUTTON Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that...
LEO BUSCAGLIA Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that...
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote a...
DALTON TRUMBO You said you didn't want to get involved with me,that one of us would get hurt and how you couldn't ...
JULIAN GOUGH God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does...
STEVE HARVEY This is America! They have a right to state their peace, and I don't think it's right that people ar...
DENISE HENRY The amount they've collected is breathtaking, and it shows how scared they are and how much trouble ...
ANTHONY WRIGHT We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers...
BRIAN NICOLA There is definitely a pressure for funny people to be funny. People want them to perform all the tim...
MARSHA THOMASON And today's consumers are telling us they want a mobile device that allows them to talk, text and te...
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[Lat., Magna est veritas et praevalebit.]
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PHILLIPS BROOKS Let
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GWENDOLYN BROOKS Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
MEL BROOKS Humor is just another defense against the universe.
MEL BROOKS Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pra...
PHILLIPS BROOKS I guess I was the class clown - with a name like Albert Einstein, you don't hide in the back. I&...
ALBERT BROOKS If you make your robot look exactly like Albert Einstein, then the robot better be as smart as Einst...
RODNEY BROOKS Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.
THOMAS BROOKS The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out h...
PHILLIPS BROOKS We used to have food picked and used to have houses built and we used to have chicken properly proce...
MO BROOKS Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me w...
TERRY BROOKS Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the liv...
TERRY BROOKS When I went to acting school, the kids that got the best grades were the kids that could cry on cue....
ALBERT BROOKS I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able ...
TERRY BROOKS All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me...
MEL BROOKS The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the d...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
PHILLIPS BROOKS The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of ma...
PHILLIPS BROOKS It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the ...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!
PHILLIPS BROOKS Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like ...
PHILLIPS BROOKS The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of t...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurre...
PHILLIPS BROOKS The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is th...
PHILLIPS BROOKS It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
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