People Quotes

"Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now because we don't have people who have the capability to not only train fighters but also train and create decent respectable citizens of the world"

Alexis Arguello, Athlete

"Who am I that I have to sing under an umbrella? These people are my fans, and if they can stand in the rain to hear me sing, I can stand in the rain"

Bobby Darin, Musician

"I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view"

Bjorn Lomborg, Scientist

"I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine"

Angelina Jolie, Actress

"I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work"

Philip Green, Businessman

"During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"I don't see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I'm skinny, as if that's supposed to make me happy"

Angelina Jolie, Actress

"It seems astounding to me now that the video games are perhaps as important as the movie themselves. And people will spend 2 or 3 years obsessing about the video game in exactly the same way that they'd be obsessing about the movie if they were working on that"

John Cleese, Actor

"One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure"

John W. Gardner, Educator

"If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are"

John W. Gardner, Educator

"Into The Woods was... a lot of running around in the woods! I can't wait to see the show again. People didn't realize it back then, but kids still come up to me-young people-and they talk about it. It really made its mark"

Bernadette Peters, Actress

"Our goal has been to stay true to what people most love about the original Pirates! while upgrading, enhancing, and in some cases, re-inventing the game to make it a great experience for today's gamers"

Sid Meier, Scientist

"How do I let the director know how obsessed I am and willing to do anything for the movie? Like, I wanted to write this one director a letter, so I wrote him a handwritten note. But then I was like, 'How many people are writing this guy handwritten letters? Is it going to seem cheesy? What do I do?'"

Jennifer Lawrence, Actress

"Most of the younger people I knew didn't seem to have a handle on things; they hadn't found their place, they didn't understand how the world works, they didn't understand how to treat other people, and they didn't know how to stop thinking about themselves"

Kristin Hersh, Musician

"People will sooner aid a sick dog lying on the sidewalk than to try to find shelter for a sick person. It's too much to deal with"

Michael Zaslow, Actor

"Our role in Israel is a pioneering one, and we need people with certain strength of fiber"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations and their rights in areas like health, road safety and further education"

John Bruton, Politician

"Hopefully, I'll just get to be part of good films and work with good people, and that's how it will develop"

Gretchen Mol, Actress

"But I think there's a genuine joy, too, a sense that no matter what, even if my stomach's growling, I'm going to dance. That's what I want to leave people with at the end of the play. After all this, people still know how to live"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"The reason most people sweat is so they will not catch fire while they are making love"

Don Rose, Radio host

"You can't always let people do their own thing"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out"

Anton Chekhov, Dramatist

"Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself"

Ralph Fiennes, Actor

"I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people"

Toni Morrison, Novelist

"Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"Take a look at the books other people have in their homes"

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

"Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system - there are lots of nice, well-meaning people there. But it's a sleazy place. And politics is all about doing favors"

Esther Dyson, Scientist

"Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was"

Paul Muldoon, Poet

"I really only respect the Arab culture. I ain't really trying to pay no attention to, ya know, these little people in political positions and executive positions that ain't Arab culture oriented people because a lot of the times, what are you really showing all of this concern for?"

Busta Rhymes, Musician

"Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation"

Larry David, Actor

"Because, in opera, I have to sing for people that are very far from me, instead of, when I sing a song, I try to imagine to sing like in an ear of a child"

Andrea Bocelli, Musician

"Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something"

Anton Chekhov, Dramatist

"When you sing and people want that you sing, then you can hope to be great"

Andrea Bocelli, Musician

"I began when I was a child, because I was born and grew up in a little village. And many people ride the horses. So, it was a big - it has been a big passion for me"

Andrea Bocelli, Musician

"One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom"

Thom Yorke, Musician

"And in my own life, in my own small way, I've tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That's why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us - no matter what our age or background or walk of life - each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation"

Michelle Obama, First Lady

"When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who's not their partner. It's really kind of gross"

Megan Fox, Actress

"Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are"

Princess Diana, Royalty

"I really enjoy having sex, and that's offensive to some people. Women are the quickest to call other women sluts, which is sad. I haven't met a lot of men who've said, "You like having sex? What a dirty whore you are!". That's because they wish their wives or girlfriends would have more sex with them"

Megan Fox, Actress

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