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do the work and those who... INDIRA GANDHI My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who... INDIRA GANDHI My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people; those who do the work and those who... INDIRA GANDHI People who were gay were pitied and ridiculed by my parents - they had no modern sense of people bei... MIRIAM MARGOLYES There are some people who keep track of every day and every hours, and there are people who don't, a... NEIL GAIMAN There are two kinds of folks who sit around thinking about how to kill people: psychopaths and myste... RICHARD CASTLE There were two people who thought they were the greatest band in the world -- Brian Epstein and John... LARRY KANE In those days, who bought? Who had money? Aside from being ostracized for doing something no one els... JAMES KOSHIBA There were stories going around that we were bringing 3,000 people. People were making up all kinds ... DENNIS MILLS There were hundreds of people walking around with scrapes, bruises, people being carried out on stre... ANDREW SCHULTZ There were people looting, but she wasn't one of them. Instead of chasing after people who were runn... ELOIS SHORT There were girls at school whose families grew to a robust five or six. There were girls with seven ... ANNE ENRIGHT Groupies to me, were people who followed you around. Familiar faces who were always there, asking fo... DAVY JONES There were few people who could so easily turn down money. There had to be a larger good for doing s... JADE DELLINGER Robbers’ Hill and its surrounding area were extremely safe for women. In the last two decade... RAVI RANJAN GOSWAMI There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the c... STEPHEN KING There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they w... BECK You see something like this, driving around in your car, walking around in your house, like Steph sa... ALLAN HOUSTON There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the w... ROBERT BENCHLEY After the attacks in London, there were a number of questions asked trying to understand who these p... JAY HOOD There are two kinds of people: those who want to be and those who want to do. BILL PURDIN There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to kee... JOHN WAYNE The guys were a little goofy before the game. They were playing around and stuff. There was sort of ... JOE TORRE There were two sides to this, and they were all trying to pull the strings they had politically. I t... CRAIG COHOON There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this... TOM ROBBINS Doctors were hovered around, watching his every move and every monitor. There were so many, they had... GRAINNE OWEN There are two kinds of people on this Earth: Those who are content and those who are not. FRANCESCO QUINN There are two kinds of parents. The parents who want kids and the kind who really, really don't. WILLIAM RODERICK If you do one good thing, that doesn't define you either. Being around the kids in the juvenile cent... RYAN GOSLING There are two kinds of people... There are the dreamers who go and buy, and there are the doers who ... MARTHA STEWART People were stressed and had nobody to talk to. Most people weren't happy to be there, but some were... DR. JOSEPHINE BEEBE There were just wonderful people who were just waiting for something to do. I can't tell you how man... JALENE HITZEMAN The (Louisiana workers) were so exhausted. They were walking around like zombies. DEB DENNING I had friends who were RAs before and they kind of inspired me and I was like, yeah I can do that, I... HANNA SALONEN There were some that looked undercover or not in uniform and then there were a quite a few that walk... NATALIE FUSCO Tahoe was full then, and they were spilling. Then you had a foot of rain a day up there around Squaw... GARY BARBATO There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those
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ROMOLA GARAI The majority of people there could have easily been my parents, or they were elderly. Nick and I wer... JOSH TAYLOR Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER There were only two kinds of people in our town. ―The stupid and the stuck- ―The ones who are bo... KAMI GARCIA We thought there were probably a lot of people who wanted to do something. We thought by getting out... DEVYN PARNES Our parents were just brilliant parents who encouraged us to do whatever we wanted to do. JACK LOWDEN People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who did... TERRY PRATCHETT I wasn't safe. I wasn't permanent. My life was a fiction I had created, like an alien who comes to e... ROBERT GOOLRICK It was a melting pot in Las Vegas. You got every age level, every ethnic background, every social au... NORM CROSBY There are two kinds of people in this world. 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INDIRA GANDHI My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didn't talk about money around the dinner t... BO SANCHEZ I think I grew up with a profound sense of watching people who were good people, who were smart peop... ELIZABETH WARREN We played great character football in the second half. We had some kids, who are not starters (and) ... DOUG KAY It was hard to disappear completely in Botswana, where there were fewer than two million people and ... ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH I never felt threatened and I walked around the entire place, ... I was talking to people, administe... JACK STEPHENS Don't get me wrong: there are some fantastic people who work at British Cycling who kept me toge... VICTORIA PENDLETON There are few successful adults who were not first successful children. ALEXANDER CHASE There are two kinds of people, those who like to sleep next to the wall, and those who like to sleep... ETGAR KERET I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that ... BILL BRUFORD It speaks volumes to all the people who were involved in the program from the Junior Olympics to the... MARC BILLETT When we arrived, the two passengers were walking around, LARRY BLACK I didn't want to be thirtysomething and not know what I was going to do. I was quite afraid of t... STELLA MCCARTNEY There are only two kinds of lamp shade customers. Ones who want exactly what they had before and one... SHIRLEY ALLEN The abolitionists were not like the rugged people out West, and they were not like John Brown, eithe... JAMES MCBRIDE There were around 64 chairs set up, and they had part of those indoors, but most of them were outsid... BARBARA ROLLINS It was like being in a nightmare. I couldn't get out of the van, there were no keys in the van and m... CATHY TRIPLETT I really thank my parents for giving me the good sense to not get into anything wrong. 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