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Letter "P" » People
«People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.»
Author: Charles F. Kettering
| About:
People
| Keywords:
exactly, minded, Old Ones, open-minded, the Old Ones
«People assume you slept your way to the top. Frankly, I couldn't sleep my way to the middle.»
«People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.»
«People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.»
Author: Noel Coward
(Actor, Composer, Playwright)
| About:
People,
Thought
| Keywords:
opera, People Are Wrong
«People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.»
Author: Andre Maurois
(Biographer, Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
People
| Keywords:
contemptuous, might-have-been, scornful, treated
«People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Discovery,
People
| Keywords:
convinced, discovered, reasons
«People came up: 'I thought you were 6 ft tall.' I'm average height - 5 ft 8 ins, skinny blonde. One guy says to me 'So, where's the fox from Mystic Pizza?'»
«People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
People,
Positive thinking
| Keywords:
positive, zealous
«People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo»
«People can have the Model T in any color - so long as it's black»
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