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“When they finally saw him, why he hadn’t done any of those things…Atticus, he was real nice…”
His hands were under my chin, pulling up the cover, tucking it around me.
“Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.”

– Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 31. Scout is telling Atticus how Boo Radley turned out to be a very nice person, despite her originally thinking he was a monster. Atticus points out that most people are nice when you get to know and understand them better.

At every step of the way, I’ve been guided by the words I spoke from the first time I stood in a courtroom: Kamala Harris, For the People.

– Kamala Harris

Accepting Democratic Party nomination for Vice President of U.S.

Linus van Pelt: You know what Snoopy? I don’t understand people. No matter how hard I try, I just don’t understand them!
Snoopy: I know how he feels. I gave up trying to understand people long ago. Now I just let them try to understand me!

– Charles M. Schulz

People never believe you.

– J. D. Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye. Holden Caulfield in Chapter 5. He appears to be making a point about society’s views towards teenagers like him. He just doesn’t trust adults.

Jack Kerouac quote about the mad ones

The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

– Jack Kerouac

On The Road. Narrator Sal Paradise in Part One, Chapter 1.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people - Eleanor Roosevelt

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

– Eleanor Roosevelt

The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.

– Garrett Fort

I have a very genuine care for individuals; I have a very genuine sense of the power of individuals to make a difference, a very genuine belief that people matter, a very genuine belief of wanting the very best for individuals.

– Gail Kelly

Sometimes, when you watch people play a video game, they seem lost in this wormhole, or in a trance.

– Harmony Korine

True conservation provides for wise use by the general public. The American people do not want our resources preserved for the exclusive use of the wealthy. These land and water resources belong to the people, and people of all income levels should have easy access to them.

– George Aiken

I don’t believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

– Harold S. Geneen

It’s a small city where I have a lot of time to think. The orchestra and I have had a chance to connect very well in this time. I think of all the millions of people in Los Angles. There aren’t that many millions of people in all of Sweden.

– Gustavo Dudamel

Some people are motivated by money – I’m not one of them.

– Harry Kane

Sci-fi fans are the most loyal fans on the planet – there’s no doubt about it. I’ve done a few of those conventions, and these people will know the lines!

– Greg Evigan

There will be a winner. There will a president-elect. But there will not be a defeated people. Tomorrow, we are only one country, only one Venezuela. Tomorrow in the country there are many problems that we have to resolve. Problems do not wait.

– Henrique Capriles Radonski

I meet with people all day long.

– Hillary Clinton

I’ve pretty much accepted the fact that you’re going to meet ignorant people, and that’s okay. You can’t control that. You can’t change that.

– Hasan M. Elahi

When it comes to nuclear technology, the Iranian people are very sensitive. It is a part of our national pride, and nuclear technology has become indigenous.

– Hassan Rouhani

We have so many rich people in Switzerland. They should take more responsibility for the general public. There is almost no tradition of philanthropy here anymore, unlike in the U.S.

– Hansjorg Wyss

When people campaign for positions, they promise people all kinds of things.

– Hugh Masekela

The whole ‘R’ rating depends on a strange sort of fantasy land where all adults are responsible people, and children only ever go to the cinema with their parents.

– Helen Mirren

Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don’t really think it is.

– H. R. Giger

I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It’s sad.

– Grace Slick

I was paid to be cheeky and people clapped me for it.

– George Cole

I think there’s a great homogenizing force that software imposes on people and limits the way they think about what’s possible on the computer. Of course, it’s also a great liberating force that makes possible, you know, publishing and so forth, and standards, and so on.

– Golan Levin

In the 1960s, if you introduced a new product to America, 90% of the people who viewed it for the first time believed in the corporate promise. Then 40 years later if you performed the same exercise, less than 10% of the public believed it was true. The fracturing of trust is based on the fact that the consumer has been let down.

– Howard Schultz

The decision to open up Bahrain to embrace all people indiscriminately was fostered in me ever since I was a child.

– Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

If 300 million people were to offer up the details of their private lives, you would need to hire another 300 million people just to keep up.

– Hasan M. Elahi

I’m a big believer you should design work around a vast majority of people who want to do the right thing rather than around the tiny minority who might take advantage.

– Gail Kelly

I always say it’s worth doing what you want to do, not letting people manipulate you. It’s worth holding out. It’s worth having pride.

– Geraldine Page

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