People Quotes

"Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades"

"Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business"

Faith Ford, Actress

"I started out as a 16 year old registering people to vote"

DeForest Soaries, Politician

"Well, you know, I have always had an issue with the whole weight thing with people in general because I happen to love how big women look. I mean, it's all a perspective. It's all an opinion, and I think sort of the Rubenesque, voluptuous body is a lot sexier than the boney bag of bones with fake everything"

Debi Mazar, Actress

"This fact immediately suggested a singular event - that at some time in the distant past the universe began expanding from an extremely small size. To many people this inference was loaded with overtones of a supernatural event - the creation, the beginning of the universe"

Michael Behe, Scientist

"I published in 1978 a report on dreams in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. It was the first study of its kind to demonstrate that it is possible for people to make constructive use of their dreams to improve their lives"

Henry Reed, Writer

"Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people"

Fannie Flagg, Author

"Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others"

Elihu Root, Lawyer

"In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace"

Feisal Abdul Rauf, Theologian

"I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting"

Bob Woodward, Journalist

"I think, especially in our business we meet a lot of people, and sometimes you spend so much time being nice to strangers, and so, you know, keeping a clear head and just being nice to each other. And that's all the advice I can give"

Catherine Zeta-Jones, Actress

"I opposed No Child Left Behind, I opposed the Medicare prescription drug bill, I opposed the Wall Street bailout. What the American people are starting to see is that Republican, Republicans on Capitol Hill get it and the Democrats, from the White House to Capitol Hill, just don't get it"

Mike Pence, Politician

"We want an economic team, Paul Krugman and Robert Kuttner, Joseph Steiglitz's people and others, who say, you know what? We're sophisticated economists but we're concerned about poor and working people"

Cornel West, Educator

"Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws"

Edith Piaf, Musician

"Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn't mean they are great communicators in person"

Christie Brinkley, Model

"People who know, know. The others, it really doesn't matter"

David McCallum, Actor

"I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends"

Colin Firth, Actor

"One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are"

Cal Thomas, Journalist

"Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don't see the real people"

Cass Elliot, Musician

"One of the cries from the people was, don't forget us. They have a long road ahead of them. Operation Blessing has found those little fishing towns. They will not be getting what other towns are getting from the government"

Connie Sellecca, Actress

"We were probably the last people in the country to get a VCR and we didn't have cable. There wasn't any admiration of glamour, no, 'I want to look like them or have that lifestyle', because everyone in my town had the same lifestyle. So I didn't think, 'Ooh, a movie star's birthday!' I just thought, 'What?'"

Christina Hendricks, Actress

"It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist. As soon as the leaders of a country lie to you, they have no authority over you. These maniacs have no authority over us. And they might be able to put our bodies in prison, but they can't put our spirits in prison"

Cindy Sheehan, Activist

"I think most people played both variants and regular games. It was a period when variants were very popular and there were a lot more variants being played at that time. Every week practically, it seemed someone would publish a new variant in a zine"

Fred Davis, Celebrity

"In real life, a lot of people at that level will have their kimonos made especially for them"

Colleen Atwood, Designer

"People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news"

A. J. Liebling, Journalist

"Giving people what they want isn't just good radio; it's also the right way to run a country"

Adrian Cronauer, Entertainer

"I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way"

Alex Winter, Actor

"In the studio, I'm always throwing people on different instruments"

Beck, Musician

"I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same"

Angus Young, Musician

"All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people"

Alvar N. C. de Vaca

"And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now"

Ahmed Chalabi, Statesman

"It only works because we still amuse each other. After we have been working with other people, it is so refreshing to laugh unreservedly when we are back together again"

Adrian Edmondson, Actor

"I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled"

Amy Adams, Actress

"Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles"

Ayrton Senna, Celebrity

"Hugh Everett's work has been described by many people in terms of many worlds, the idea being that every one of the various alternative histories, branching histories, is assigned some sort of reality"

Murray Gell-Mann, Physicist

"Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life tis most meddled with by other people"

John Selden, Statesman

"The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods"

Paul Dirac, Physicist

"The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people"

Hugh Hefner, Publisher

"I don't like people to feel completely described by the clothes they wear of mine. I want them to feel that they're describing themselves"

Isaac Mizrahi, Designer

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