People Quotes

"It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world"

Jimmy Carter, President

"Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se"

Charles Eames, Designer

"A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve"

Joseph Joubert, Writer

"One can't deny what has happened to us in the past. The secret is to enjoy and be proud of the music we've created and the people with whom we have been linked. It's all a long chain of involvement in the world, and we are proud to be yet another link in this chain"

Graham Nash, Musician

"I began acting at age eight, but if you don't stay on your game then people pass on you. Being on a show, it's a little easy to get comfortable, so I'm trying to get back on it. I'm taking some acting classes and watching movies, and I'm just trying to stay up with other actors"

Jason Dohring, Actor

"Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble"

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

"Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them"

Robertson Davies, Novelist

"From the beginning I thought about working with the body in movement, the space between the body and clothes. I wanted the clothes to move when people moved. The clothes are also for people to dance or laugh"

Issey Miyake, Designer

"Once people start making comparisons to a player of the past, they want you to be that player. I try to go out there and create my own image, my own style, my own type of game. Right now I can't even think of one guy I've been compared to"

Paul Pierce, Athlete

"It almost hurts me to walk down a road and have people grab my hand and ask for my autograph and not sit and talk. When I'm finished I'm not going to be on the front page, but I'm going to be just as happy without the publicity"

Terry Fox, Athlete

"People know me for up-tempo songs because of my hits"

Eddie Floyd, Musician

"People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird"

Barry White, Musician

"And the young people in the 1960's identified with it immediately, because, I guess the young people had been having years of repression really. They felt that the, you know, after the war everything was very austere, particularly in Europe"

George Martin, Producer

"Even though I'm not running anymore, we still have to try to find a cure for cancer. Other people should go ahead and try to do their own thing now"

Terry Fox, Athlete

"In Evita I wasn't really hugely involved with it. I gave a little bit of help but they needed a bit of technical help on the movie and so some of my music people went in at the end of the movie and helped out with it"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"I don't think anyone is more intrinsically holy. People experience God in many ways; and it seems to me that God does what the rest of us do: He chooses the means that best gets His message across"

Gene Wolfe, Writer

"I've always thought that as long as directors and casting directors don't see me as just Harry Potter, I'll be OK. People have shown a lot of faith in me, and I owe them a huge debt. They're letting me prove that I'm serious about this"

Daniel Radcliffe, Actor

"I believe celebrity spoils people - some worse than others"

Phil Donahue, Entertainer

"I'm a very lucky guy. I had so many people help me over the years that I never had many problems. If I had a problem, I could sit down with someone and they would explain the problem to me, and the problem become like a baseball game"

Willie Mays, Athlete

"I worked very hard on me and David's record and I'm extremely proud of the record, as most people are who were involved with it. And, it's been wonderfully received by people who like our kind of music, they think it's something special, and so do I"

Graham Nash, Musician

"I think everybody knows that on November 7th more people voted for Al Gore than George Bush, a fact that has been documented time and time again"

Corrine Brown, Politician

"Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit"

Edward R. Murrow, Journalist

"Our assistance in Somalia has been remarkably effective and successful, and we have helped with very small resources - a large group of people and we can now do even more"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"No amount of humanitarian assistance can protect people from being attacked"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

"It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

"Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains"

Giraldus Cambrensis, Clergyman

"I can't talk fellowship to you who are gathered here. Too much blood has been spilled. I know from my experience it is up to the working people to save themselves. The only way they can save themselves is by a strong working-class movement"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"When you won that title you should know now that you are representing a whole country or nation with your actions and you are now in a glass house or under a microscope and you better be ready to make your people proud"

Alexis Arguello, Athlete

"The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning"

George F. Kennan, Historian

"I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things"

Regina Spektor, Musician

"I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment the sober second thought of the people"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent upon the defence of their country, and on the means of plunder, are wholly employed in the care of their horses and furniture"

Giraldus Cambrensis, Clergyman

"Understandably, no peace can sustained when people continue to suffer from hunger, lack of jobs, lack of basic public services - and most of all - lack of opportunity or hope"

Mikhail Saakashvili, Statesman

"I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know"

Garry Shandling, Comedian

"These people being of a sharp and acute intellect, and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding, excel in whatever studies they pursue, and are more quick and cunning than the other inhabitants of a western clime"

Giraldus Cambrensis, Clergyman

"There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave"

Nikki Giovanni, Poet

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