People Quotes

"My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better"

Marlo Thomas, Actress

"Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people"

Luke Scott, Athlete

"What I really remember is that people camped out everywhere, and the fact everybody expected it might turn into a big nightmare with all sorts of hassles because back in those days everybody was smoking pot and taking acid"

Johnny Rivers, Musician

"People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all"

Maggie Smith, Actress

"I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair"

James Patterson, Author

"Today, people tend to credit me with having the original idea and made the first circuits"

Jack Kilby, Scientist

"Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to enjoy any of my success"

Vanilla Ice, Musician

"We played one warm-up gig at this bar that was kinda like that bar in 'The Blues Brothers' with the chicken wire. This place called The Brick House, in Housatonic. I really can't believe we're going to play for people in New York City. I'm terrified, but it's a small enough room. But it's really just supposed to be for the fun of it"

Lauren Ambrose, Actress

"It's very hard to step into a job when people are just dismissing you as a pretty face, and saying you got your job only because your surname is McMahon"

Julian McMahon, Actor

"I was just absolutely exhausted. The media said I've been treated for a nervous breakdown. All that stuff I just took as people taking the opportunity when you're down to give you a kick"

John Hewson, Politician

"What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh"

Pete Townshend, Musician

"Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a God and if he is a loving and merciful God, how do you explain the problems of suffering and death and all the tragedies that happen to people?"

John Clayton

"All those songs reflect all the people that live within me"

Janet Jackson, Musician

"There are people who help you in life. I've been given a helping hand, and that's why I feel it's my duty to help younger artists"

Hugo Pratt, Cartoonist

"Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don't understand what's been done to you - by your own people and the so-called "they" - you can never get around it"

Henry Hampton, Activist

"On his own okay, Bush has authorized eavesdropping on as many as a thousand people over the past three years, with some of those intercepts being purely domestic, the New York Times reported"

Margaret Carlson, Journalist

"The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out. That's why I'm always hoping society never collapses because the first ones to go will be entertainers"

Kevin Smith, Director

"There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business"

Brent Spiner, Actor

"And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality"

Margaret Spellings, Public Servant

"Going in, I knew I wasn't one of the top ones, because I didn't even make the pre-season All-American team. That shows you what people thought of me right there, so I knew I had to go to work"

Marcus Allen, Athlete

"If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter's rights of the heart"

James Hilton, Novelist

"The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate"

J. M. Roberts

"I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this issue has gone on the ballot, the people have voted to retain the traditional definition of marriage as recently as California in 2008"

Michele Bachmann, Politician

"I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble"

Gordon Sinclair, Journalist

"I started this whole endeavor really. And at the beginning we had the selection in Italy. And that was pretty much among people that had held previous experience in that particular satellite. So, I was in that, in a good position then"

Umberto Guidoni, Astronaut

"People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts"

Paul Hindemith, Musician

"I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people"

James Woods, Actor

"People are hungry for messages of hope and life"

Morgan Brittany, Actress

"So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life"

Jackson Browne, Musician

"I pick out young people and teach them in less time than it would take me to alter the methods of people from the boards, and I get actors who look the parts they have to fill"

D. W. Griffith, Director

"I say, traitors; as some men live upon the reward of treachery, for their quiet and liberty; if it may be called a liberty, as it is redeemed with the betraying of the interest of Christ, and the blood of His people"

Donald Cargill, Clergyman

"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great"

Fernando Flores, Politician

"Politics is show business for ugly people"

Paul Begala, Journalist

"I'm the most cynical person, and I know what that sounds like when you say, I don't drink and drive, and I don't. But I know people look at that with skepticism, and I understand"

Tracey Gold, Actress

"I think it's very clear that the American people are frustrated with this move toward socialism. And so whether you're back or white, if you believe that the conservative construct is in the best interest of our future, than you too would be voting with Republicans, and if you had the opportunity to run you'd join us as well"

Tim Scott, Politician

"Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people"

Larry Hagman, Actor

"Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount"

Lara St. John, Musician

"All sensible Army people turned gas warfare down as being utterly insane since, in view of your superiority in the air, it would not be long before it would bring the most terrible catastrophe upon German cities, which were completely unprotected"

Albert Speer, Criminal

"I think if you look at yesterday's New York Times poll, particularly when you judge Democrats in Congress versus the Republicans in Congress, people put a little more faith, or even a little more than a little more faith in the Democrats in Congress"

John Podesta, Lawyer

"The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership"

Harvey S. Firestone, Businessman

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