People Quotes

"I think my best skill in this whole deal is as a conduit to try to bring people together, because I think it's in our unity that we'll have the greatest strength"

Woody Harrelson, Actor

"I'm just into making quality stuff if I can, with interesting people and good scripts. But it's very important that it's about something and that it says something. Otherwise, I don't know what the point is, really"

Ewan McGregor, Actor

"I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods"

Imogen Cunningham, Photographer

"It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be"

Rick Moody, Novelist

"And I think what people in New Jersey have gotten to know about me over the last decade that I've been in public life is what you see is what you get. And I'm no different when I'm sitting with you than I am when I'm at home or anyplace else"

Chris Christie, Politician

"I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours"

Bernard Berenson, Historian

"Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes"

Tori Amos, Musician

"Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them"

Sally Quinn, Journalist

"I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see"

Black Elk, Leader

"I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power"

Josh Lucas, Actor

"Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is"

Alan Kay, Scientist

"We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being"

William O. Douglas, Judge

"Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them"

Simon Wiesenthal, Activist

"On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged"

Martin Sheen, Actor

"Let me remind you that nuclear disarmament is not just an ardent desire of the people, as expressed in many resolutions of the United Nations. It is a legal commitment by the five official nuclear states, entered into when they signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it"

Leonard Maltin, Critic

"If I were less than honest as a critic, I think people would spot that right away, and it would destroy my credibility"

Leonard Maltin, Critic

"The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people"

James Rado, Actor

"The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all; and for that I am especially grateful"

George Wald, Scientist

"Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace"

Frank B. Kellogg, Politician

"Golf is fundamentally about being honest. I see people hit eight shots and tell me they shot five. I never say a word. It is a reminder to me of what is at stake"

Martin Sheen, Actor

"The mass of the people commence life with no other capital than the union of head, hearts and hands. To the benefit of this best of capital the wife has no right"

Ernestine Rose, Activist

"I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed"

Jack Bowman, Actor

"I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News"

Ed Bradley, Journalist

"From beginning to end it's about keeping the energy and the intensity of the story and not doing too much and not doing too little, but just enough so people stay interested and stay involved in the characters"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role"

Clarence Thomas, Judge

"In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures"

Jeffery Deaver, Writer

"We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initiative in all areas of life - in culture, in economy and in politics"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature"

Herman Hesse, Author

"So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people"

Camryn Manheim, Actress

"I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it"

Charles Schumer, Politician

"I think, like a lot of other people who have been in the service, you'd been delayed in what you were doing. You wanted to catch up and the best way to catch up was to move as fast as you could toward a degree"

Daniel J. Evans, Politician

"Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning"

Anthony Trollope, Author

"By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming"

Charles Barkley, Athlete

"People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"Stupid people are ruining America"

Herman Cain, Businessman

"I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"This is very interesting because the Liberal Party of Canada, heading into an election, at the last minute they always stand up and they say: We know there's people out there that want to vote NDP and God love you"

Rick Mercer, Comedian

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