People Quotes

"I wasn't really the most charming person, socially - it took me a long time to develop my people skills - but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing"

Zooey Deschanel, Actress

"This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people'"

John Wycliffe, Theologian

"People with goals succeed because they know where they're going"

Earl Nightingale, Writer

"Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn't matter, because there was all the rest of the world to visit"

Philip Pullman, Writer

"I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials"

George Mason, Statesman

"Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people"

Charles de Secondat, Philosopher

"The love of these people and of my fans mean more than any award or special accomplishment"

Wynonna Judd, Musician

"Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system"

Robert Musil, Writer

"It pays to get drunk with the best people"

Joe E. Lewis, Comedian

"Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess"

John Cusack, Actor

"And I kind of feel that I have a responsibility to the people that invest their time and money with me to show up on the set every day and do the best of which I am capable"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"How do you explain certain physical qualities that somehow sell on screen? You're born with it... Certain people are just more watchable, and I was more watchable, but I don't think I understood acting or drama very well when I was a kid"

Joan Chen, Actress

"You make your first album, you make some money, and you feel like you still have to show face, like 'I still go to the projects.' I'm like, why? Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out. You grew up there. What makes you think it's so cool?"

Jay-Z, Musician

"The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion"

Fred Allen, Comedian

"And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music"

Joan Jett, Musician

"I remember certain people in the audience laughing and I wanted to ask: 'What are you laughing at? This isn't funny.' Now I realize that laughter can come from insecurity. They don't know how they should be feeling"

Jim Dale, Musician

"And I think we need a combination of a freeze, potentially, and also we need to sit down with the - with the banking industry and talk to them about ways in which we can help them be able to work those mortgages out, because it's absolutely imperative that we keep people in their homes"

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Politician

"He doesn't make it so complicated but just really allows the lyric to come through even though there's a lot of production going on. I think that's the key and that's the magic, it's making sure that people could still connect with the lyrics while they're on the dance floor"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"I sit in places like Costa Coffee in Banstead and write rubbish. I need a deadline. I think about the 44 tour dates and keep imagining standing in front of all these people. Then every day I write 15 jokes minimum"

Tim Vine, Comedian

"I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other"

Pete Seeger, Musician

"He is still my father. He is still a person I know I could trust and he would never do anything against me. Once you're at the top, there are not many people like that. People always want something from you"

Martina Hingis, Athlete

"People who think radio acting is easy are wrong, because you got nothing to work with but your voice"

Melanie Griffith, Actress

"Now, the president would like to do tax reform, which would obviously lower rates for most people in America and make the tax code fair and get rid of loopholes and special treatment. But absent tax reform, the president believes the right way to get our fiscal house in order is ask the wealthy to pay their fair share"

David Plouffe, Public Servant

"Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music. So given those things yes, I'm introducing some new music that people haven't really heard me do in quite this fashion"

Al Jarreau, Musician

"One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family"

Robert Byrd, Politician

"On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success"

Martin Van Buren, President

"We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible"

Robert Duvall, Actor

"I always give Lindsay so much credit for her tennis game, for her attitude, for her person, and because of how she deals with all the things. I don't think people give her enough credit for how well she's doing"

Martina Hingis, Athlete

"What it made me realize was that a show like this makes people look inside themselves. Because this crew guy isn't sitting there wishing the character would fight back. He's hoping that he would fight back"

Lee Tergesen, Actor

"Well, I would never admit to copying Karl Rove's play book, but there's no doubt that what the Bush people did in 2004 was impressive. They had neighbors talking to neighbors. They did a remarkable job increasing Republican turnout in states like Ohio and Florida"

David Plouffe, Public Servant

"The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else"

William Westmoreland, Soldier

"It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of"

Michael Nesmith, Musician

"I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'"

Bob Newhart, Comedian

"All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa"

Art Blakey, Musician

"Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves"

Mark Haddon, Novelist

"In the United States, commentators recognize that, generally speaking, most people who hold liberal positions over a range of issues will likely vote Democratic, while most people, again generally speaking, who hold conservative positions will vote Republican"

Stockwell Day, Politician

"Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star. We had no idea that other people would think we were special, because there was no other lifestyle to compare it to"

Liza Minnelli, Actress

"The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it"

Don Bluth, Artist

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