People Quotes

"I think it talks about the fact that there are black people in the world who have tremendous amount of talents and have no channel through which they can those talents"

Joe Morton, Actor

"I prayed to God for help and I put myself in a recovery house called Studio 12. It was for people in the business and you didn't have to have any money to go, which was good because I was broke"

Brion James, Actor

"I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before"

Dean Koontz, Author

"I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody"

Glenn Frey, Musician

"From the time I moved to San Francisco in 1967 to play with the Steve Miller Band, there was a lot of support in the music community for one cause or another, but this one was special because it was put on by people who understood where musicians' hearts are"

Boz Scaggs, Musician

"His unit is in charge of 5,000 homes, and they've only been able to search about 2 percent of them. People are standing on roofs or sticking their hands out of air vents so they can get rescued"

Allen Johnson, Athlete

"Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you"

Meryl Streep, Actress

"The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people"

Ron Paul, Politician

"I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in one week"

Mario Cuomo, Politician

"I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"I never expected this to catch on in the way it did! Of course similar observations have been made by any number of people, and the distinction is obvious to anyone who thinks about the subject a little"

David Chalmers, Philosopher

"People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get"

Frederick Douglass, Author

"And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker"

Olivier Martinez, Actor

"There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people"

Calvin Klein, Designer

"Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate"

Jeffrey Archer, Politician

"And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the People, then I shall send my voice beyond the walls of this Capitol for redress"

Caleb Cushing, Diplomat

"Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people"

Ernest Renan, Philosopher

"Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent"

Sophia Loren, Actress

"I'm more interested in the games than the people"

Magnus Carlsen

"I've never been one to shy away from competition. I think that's what makes people great"

Mike Gesicki, Athlete

"The outstanding people realized that the job involved more than just writing a good strategic plan. It was also important that top management should understand the plan and be prepared to adopt it"

David C. McClelland, Psychologist

"It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think just as importantly we prepare people for the definition of being gentle"

Bob Keeshan, Entertainer

"I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery"

Paul R. Ehrlich, Scientist

"The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do"

Mark Van Doren, Poet

"The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people"

Walter Winchell, Journalist

"When I go in front of an audience, I'll admit I sometimes have a certain amount of fear in me, because maybe the people are not going to accept what I'm doing today. That's bad for any artist, especially if what you're doing is not in line with what's happening today"

Jimmy Rushing, Musician

"I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people"

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Artist

"Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding"

Queen Marie of Romania, Royalty

"I felt that there were so many people doing it that I would just be like one of the others"

Kelli White, Athlete

"I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom"

Brenda Blethyn, Actress

"The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do"

Billy Higgins, Musician

"And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it"

Aaron McGruder, Artist

"Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people"

Tony Campolo, Clergyman

"A different world cannot be built by indifferent people"

Peter Marshall, Clergyman

"Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them"

Samuel Pepys, Writer

"Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think"

Mary Wortley Montagu, Writer

"And I managed to arrange to get some research support and to stay in Hong Kong for another year and a half, interviewing people coming out of China, both Westerners and Chinese. And that was my first real research study on thought reform or so-called brainwashing"

Robert Jay Lifton, Psychologist

"Almost all the fans I meet are pretty cool people. They're intelligent and tend to think about things a bit more than your average rock'n'roll fans: sensible people I wouldn't mind having a drink with"

Peter Buck, Musician

"The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion"

John Keegan, Historian

"I think quite often a fate worse than death is life - for lots of people"

Tom Baker, Actor

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