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I think, as most of us do, I put such high expectations on myself that this spills over onto other people. And not everyone is wired this way. Some people can shrug expectations off their shoulders like a cardigan, remaining cool and breezy. Others wear them like a parka with a stuck zipper, hot and stifling.
Kristin Armstrong
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Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.
George Carlin
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It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
Calvin Klein
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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.
Sophia Loren
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Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.


John W. Gardner
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You make a movie with some people, you become friends over the process of making this movie and then... you go your own way.
Sabrina Bryan
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Some people are natural beauties, some have great style, but sometimes it comes from talent. Take Kate Winslet: I was listening to her speech at the Golden Globes. That woman has so much intensity. She's amazing to watch and to listen to. With some people, it can even be their voice that makes them attractive.
Mary-Kate Olsen
Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.
Tom G. Palmer
But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.
Vernor Vinge
It's worth knowing more about the complicated environmental and genetic factors that could explain why traumatic brain injuries lead to long-term disabilities in some people and not in others.
Anne Wojcicki
Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.
Ronald Reagan
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Some people will lie to you because they mean to. Others will do it to tell you what you want to hear.
Robert Herjavec
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Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.


Roger Miller
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Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me.


Tori Amos
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You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and start off. I start from what happened, including the why.
Anne Perry
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Some people have a desire to be with the same sex. But that's them.


Stevie Wonder
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I think honestly, some people who think they're gay, they're confused.


Stevie Wonder
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Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.


Alan Dundes
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Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
Ralph Ellison
Some people had fathers who were bankers or farmers, my father made films, that's how I saw it. As for the movie stars, they were just around, some of them were friends, others weren't, it was all just a part of my everyday life.
Anjelica Huston
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