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People tend to think of psychopaths as criminals. In fact, the majority of psychopaths aren't criminal. Robert D. Hare
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People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It's prepared them. I've never felt like you could develop character without adversity. Bobby Bowden
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People that have been interested in our work for awhile... those are the last people you want to disappoint. Joel Coen
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People that I have known that have been extremely creative, people in the business, they have always been influenced by their mothers. Their mothers are the ones that created whatever it is - the urge to create. Georgia Holt
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People think I have an interest in comics, but I'm only interested in comics from the '40s, like 'Donald Duck' comics. Terry Zwigoff
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hard-work thinking people
People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows? Monica Seles
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People think I must have pushy parents, but that's not the case. Troye Sivan
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People think it's funny that I enjoy dreaming so much. I just use it as a form of entertainment. It's very private. I don't see my dreams as separate. I mean, half the time I'm wandering around dreaming anyway. Robert Smith
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People think of the military as being about guns and fighting wars, but it's really about service to country and community. Austin Stowell
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People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way. Anita Desai
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People think that human beings have gotten worse, that because of the pressures that modern society puts on us, we've gotten worse, and we've gotten capable of doing more terrible things. I don't know if I necessarily think that that's true. Thomas Gibson
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People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I don't think that's limited to Haiti. Edwidge Danticat
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People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal. Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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People try to glorify war, particularly those who aren't actually fighting in them. People tend to make heroes of those who are fighting in them. John Boyne
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People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income. Robert Half
Top Life quotes
people want apps
People used to want to be filmmakers and animators; now they want to make apps. Bill Plympton
motivation winning people
People want a cop-out, listen I'm a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be greater or are important to win and people want to use excuses all the time. Mike Ditka
people want able
People want the freedom. They want to be able to shop. If you don't like the shop trading hours and you're a shop owner, you don't have to open. Jay Weatherill
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People were being so mean as a result of my ability - a gift, really. So I think that's what makes me fight harder to provide an option to aspiring kids or artists. I wouldn't want anyone to go through what I went through... to see a little girl or a little dancer experience such unnecessary rejection. Laurieann Gibson
people sides cold
People who are friends with me and who know me, know a side of me that is totally not cold. Bernhard Langer
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People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out. Warren G. Bennis
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People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level. Marcy Kaptur
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One thing I detest, I have to say, is when a shoe is too soft, and it's molding to the foot. This is quite disgusting. And I really, really hate incredibly long shoes, where the last is very pointy, almost like Aladdin. Christian Louboutin
human people
One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves. Barbara Jordan
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One thing is having skated five of the best races I've probably could have skated. It was nice to peak at the right time and to do it in an important time in somebody's career. Eric Heiden
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One thing that golf teaches you is humility. Robert Wagner
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One thing that was really dope for me was that my dad had a '78 Corvette, '78 or '76 Corvette all my life. It always needed to be fixed up. I remember it's just been sitting in the driveway for years, and I got it fixed from top to bottom for his birthday. Sevyn Streeter
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One third of the economy goes through 'QuickBooks' in terms of businesses invoicing other businesses. Each invoice contains a connection between vendors, suppliers, and customers, and also the price of that connection. Representing the payment graph is huge opportunity and something no other company can do. Aaron Patzer
religious justice darkness
One time on a dive, I wound up drifting up in darkness surrounded by billions of photoluminescent creatures. It was a religious experience, one only a poet could do justice to. Graham Hawkes
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One trophy is good, but two are better. That way, when a hero wears his medals on his chest, at least his steps are level as he walks by. Johan Cruijff
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One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me. Harriet Beecher Stowe
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On 'Frasier,' a network executive once suggested that one week we have John Lithgow play Frasier and Kelsey Grammar play Lithgow's role on '3rd Rock From the Sun;' I've been deeply afraid of the idea of a crossover ever since. Christopher Lloyd
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Only 38 per cent of players in the Premier League are English; that is a damning statistic. Soon, the England manager will have to go scouting for players in the Championship - and when I say 'soon' I mean the next four or five years, perhaps even for the next World Cup. Glenn Hoddle
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Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work Lars von Trier
men philosopher individual
Only as an individual can man become a philosopher. Karl Jaspers
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death remain
Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.'
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Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both. Robert Musil
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On my days off, I like to be outdoors - on my bike or walking the dog or swimming - so it's important anyone I date is also into fitness. Mollie King
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On my job I end up jumping out of planes. Last week I got in an 18-wheeler and drove down a runway onto a skid track. The week before that they put me in a car and sunk me to the bottom of a lake to see if I could escape without an oxygen tank. Rick Mercer
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On my own I generally have very messy hair, wear jeans and sneakers. Jewel
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ground men
On one hand, you've got 'decent' men, and on the other you've got neanderthal misogynist bawbags - and the middle ground is what's disappearing. Val McDermid
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On September 11, 2001, we thought we were going to be attacked many, many times between then and now. We haven't been. I believe we had a president who made the right decision at the right time... to put us on offense against terrorists. Rudy Giuliani
trying acting levels
On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny. David Hyde Pierce
fake-people lonely loneliness
On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone. Janis Joplin
farther limited source travel
On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel farther in language than you can in any film. Sam Shepard
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On the contrary, I tried on numerous occasions to convince the American president not to go to war. I did what was within my capabilities to avoid that happening. Silvio Berlusconi
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On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't killing families, either, because the constant long bloody phone calls that parents complained to their teenagers about in decades past are gone. Warren Ellis
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On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two. Daniel Boone
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On the Internet, information from Indiana and India is equally cheap and easy to access. Ethan Zuckerman
positive technique
On the McGuire course, there's a technique called 'cancellation' where negative experiences are replaced with positive ones. Gareth Gates
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