People
- "The Commodore", the nickname of American entrepreneur Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794–1877)
- Mike Commodore (born 1979), a Canadian ice hockey defenseman who plays for the Tampa Bay Lightning in the United States.
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Famous quotes containing the word people:
“... some of my people could have been left [in Africa] and are living there. And I can’t understand them and they don’t know me and I don’t know them because all we had was taken away from us. And I became kind of angry; I felt the anger of why this had to happen to us. We were so stripped and robbed of our background, we wind up with nothing.”
—Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977)
“We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“I am particularly interested in the indications that the people seem to understand and approve the necessity of pursuing the course that will prevent a further effort on the part of the German peoples to continue the struggle for world domination, even though they are thoroughly beaten in this war.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)