People Quotes

"It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual"

"Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions"

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

"With the success of the last three or so years, when a lot of people start treating you differently, there's a danger that you may start to think of yourself differently. You rely on your friends to say, 'Hey, wake up!'"

David Schwimmer, Actor

"We're really happy. It still kind of blows my mind that people watch the show!"

Ryan Sypek, Actor

"People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life"

Lynda Barry, Cartoonist

"Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat"

Gina Gershon, Actress

"I have a great deal of difficulty with those who live in a hugely prosperous country telling people in the developing world that they should be deprived of a critical source of energy"

Lee R. Raymond, Businessman

"But especially if you have the wrong people within your circle. Truthfully, at the end of the day, no one cares about you in this business whether they are your agent or your manager or your publicist"

Heather Matarazzo, Actress

"I think because people are passing - people that we are aware of are passing at - I don't say a great pace, but it seems like people are dropping, and I think it's just making - there's a consciousness and there's sensitivity to it"

Shemar Moore, Actor

"The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone"

John Bardeen, Scientist

"I think, unfortunately, some people are just bad, they're just born bad, and I don't know why"

Judge Mills Lane, Celebrity

"People feel I don't mix much, but I'm working at it"

Nafisa Joseph, Model

"I tell people all the time that I was born and raised in Ronald Reagan's America"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from what everybody else was doing in the business was the fact that you could tell that these people came from different reference areas"

Kevin Ayers, Composer

"When I came to Los Angeles, it was the first time that I ever felt like I belong somewhere. Not because it was wacky, but because people here understood what I felt like to perform, and there were other kids my age who wanted to do it. I didn't get looked at as God, you freak"

Jennifer Love Hewitt, Actress

"I love comedy and I would write things to myself as an exercise in writing. I didn't do well for years, and I quit. I started to break down why I was afraid and started to look at people I admired, like Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Freddie Prinze, George Carlin and all"

George Lopez, Comedian

"The tyrant always talks as if he's preserving the best interests of his people when he actually acts to undermine them"

Ramman Kenoun

"I know people watch our movies and they'll see a lot of images - they call it gross-out - that they don't like, and I understand that. It's an important movie and one that's extremely well done, but the amount of violent imagery was not for me"

Bobby Farrelly, Director

"I suppose it hacks me off sometimes when people go on about all the other stuff, because I have really worked hard at my game, and I've been incredibly dedicated in getting myself fit, and getting my game right"

Jamie Redknapp, Athlete

"Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like"

Walter Benjamin, Critic

"On the contrary a film can promote the idea of change without any political message whatsoever but in its form and language can tell people that they can change their lives and contribute to progressive changes in the world"

Wim Wenders, Director

"The market system requires that people be committed and willing to work hard. Inherent with that is what I call a merit system, which I think gives people the greatest opportunity"

Lee R. Raymond, Businessman

"Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right"

Steve Harvey, Actor

"God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it"

Steve Harvey, Actor

"I really enjoy the people. I find them to be better educated and wittier"

Nicholas Lea, Actor

"I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population"

Paul Robeson, Actor

"It makes you realise that people are the same wherever you go"

Nicholas Lea, Actor

"We must focus on people as people, regardless of race, creed, color or gender"

Judge Mills Lane, Celebrity

"I think people really want to be happy"

John Astin, Actor

"And I have to credit David Jacobs with the opportunities he gave me. He was totally into sharing the creation of characters. David put together a show that told the story of people over many years' time and that was greatly enjoyable. Though nowadays that is frowned upon"

William Devane, Actor

"I know that sounds selfish, but you have to look at what it's doing to you personally - are you frustrated because of the way people perceive you, or are you happy enough about the things you've realized about yourself that you can tolerate the way people perceive you?"

Shannon Hoon, Musician

"I think doing more live stuff's made us feel a certain way about that particular point. I quite like small clubs. I don't really like playing in big clubs, and I think I'm really into the idea of a few people being together"

Sean Booth, Musician

"I go around the room and ask people, 'What do you think?'"

Sheryl Sandberg, Businessman

"Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike"

James Cagney, Actor

"I want winners. I want people who want to win"

Mike Singletary, Athlete

"I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam"

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Athlete

"What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you"

Vernon Jordan, Businessman

"You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart"

Tony Hillerman, Author

"President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions"

Dennis Hastert, Politician

"I'm not so sure that younger people today really appreciate the enormous bravery that went into the creation and production of that film, or how important a film at the time it really was"

Rod Steiger, Actor

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