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  • One or two people have named their children after characters in my songs. That's pretty intense. -- John Darnielle
  • I haven't got one or two people that I aspired to be like. -- Ruth Wilson
  • Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up. -- Chaim Potok
  • About 10 million people start a business each year, and about one out of two will make it. The average entrepreneur is often on his or her third startup. -- Brad D. Smith
  • There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland. -- Johnny Winter
  • Film is like football - you join a team, get close to one or two people, then never hear from them again. I don't get emotionally involved. Do one, move on. -- Vinnie Jones
  • You always get one or two people that aren't going to be saying nice things. It doesn't really bother me, but you're always going to get a few people like that. -- Georgia Salpa
  • I don't see politics as one or two people just making or delivering announcements - it's also about winning public support and the public enthusiasm. You've got to win public support. -- Gordon Brown
  • In an emergency, you rarely get one consistent piece of advice. You usually have two or three people with two or three different ideas. So you want to have your own set of thoughts. -- Rudy Giuliani
  • If guys don't respect themselves, they don't respect other people. That's times and personalities. And all of them are not that way. But it don't take but one or two to screw up the whole crowd. -- Richard Petty
  • My first year in baseball, there were only one or two reporters. My second year, I got to the Triple-A playoffs, there were four or five. When I came up in 1984, I never saw so many people. -- Dwight Gooden
  • Many people - and I think I am one of them - are more productive when they've had a little to drink. I find if I drink two or three brandies, I'm far better able to write. -- David Ogilvy
  • I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two. -- Henry Rollins
  • If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do. -- Fred Saberhagen
  • I will normally eat about seven or eight mince pies in one sitting. Sometimes, I can get to double figures. My friends, and probably most people, stop at two, so they probably dislike me a bit for it. -- Tamsin Egerton
  • It's funny, I lived my first 38 years of my life with maybe one or two people ever saying that I looked like Greg Kinnear. As soon as I get into the entertainment industry, now it's 100 percent of people. -- Greg Poehler
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  • When you do a movie in the studio system, there's a committee. A committee of six or seven people you answer to. There's two or three producers, a studio executive and one or two people above that studio executive. -- Thomas Lennon
  • I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or three years to finish one of my enormous books, and I can't go that long without reading. -- Diana Gabaldon
  • Young people often aren't in a position to write checks to charities. But there are two things they can do that are invaluable. One is volunteering, especially mentoring other young people with reading, math or help thinking about college. Through iMentor, one can even mentor people online. -- Nicholas Kristof
  • The world will be saved by one or two people. -- Andre Gide
  • People ought to be one of two things, young or dead. -- Dorothy Parker
  • if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people. -- Jerry Spinelli
  • Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things"?pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • When two people are at one in their inmost hearts, they shatter even the strength of iron or bronze. -- Cassandra Clare
  • I've never sued anybody, though there have been one or two occasions I've wanted to strangle one or two people. -- Richard Branson
  • If you start by hating one or two people, you won't be able to stop. Pretty soon you'll hate a hundred people. -- Jerry Spinelli
  • I think you don't support people based on one or two cases of situations. You deal with their balance over the long run. -- Al Sharpton
  • If something is nice about you, usually one or two people will tell you. If something is foul about you, everyone will tell you. -- Adam Richman
  • My distinguishing talent is the ability to put people under the microscope, perhaps to go one or two layers farther down than some other directors. -- David Lean
  • A moral dilemma is equally absorbing whether the stakes are the destiny of nations or the happiness of one or two people - at the most. -- Alexander McCall Smith
  • If you don't hire at least one or two people that are smarter than you are, then you're a terrible manager and I don't need you. -- Nolan Bushnell
  • God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other. -- George Sand
  • [...]when two people have become present to each other, the waiting of one must be able to cross the narrow line between the living or dying of the other. -- Henri Nouwen
  • People who like to cook like to talk about food....without one cook giving another cook a tip or two, human life might have died out a long time ago. -- Laurie Colwin
  • There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland -- Johnny Winter
  • It can be so difficult to get people to think about systemic institutional problems. It is easier just to see the actions of one or two people and say, "That's wrong!" -- Chelsea Manning
  • It was neither preaching nor praying that made a better man of me, but one or two people who believed in me better than I deserved, and I hated to disappoint them. -- Owen Wister
  • Writing a screen play with a group of collaborators is like the Lennon McCartney collaboration .... sometimes one or two people do more than others on certain parts of the process and vice versa. -- Peter Jackson
  • After spending all of his resources to create all of us, not just one or two people, but in millions and billions and yet, God cannot find a man who will stand for him -- Sunday Adelaja
  • Team spirit elevates with a broad-based contribution to the group effort. It's especially important for the high-performing leader to avoid the situation of one or two people being the only contributors during a meeting. -- Andrew J Dubrin
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