People Quotes

"I like Kit-Kat, unless I'm with four or more people"

"Bologna is a deli meat for people with eyes"

"A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle"

Jean Genet, Dramatist

"I'll go back and take what the people owe me"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

"I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are"

Joan Rivers, Comedian

"Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga"

David Ogilvy, Businessman

"It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

"The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man"

Ho Chi Minh, Revolutionary

"Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches"

David Hume, Philosopher

"There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant"

Anatole France, Novelist

"People break down after a couple of hours. All the defenses go down, and there's a kind of communication that if I spent 20 years in a living room with one of these people, I would never, never know as much about them as I do in that one day"

Lee Grant, Actress

"An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs"

Edgard Varese, Composer

"People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there"

Jennifer Lopez, Musician

"It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves"

Michael Ignatieff, Politician

"America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children"

George W. Bush, President

"To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them"

Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher

"We're going to develop - what we want to do is to provide the viewers with what they want from CNN and that is the news. So when people tune in, they'll get the latest news, but they'll also get the biggest story of the day in depth, as CNN does so well"

Connie Chung, Journalist

"Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls"

Heraclitus, Philosopher

"It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption"

Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher

"A college education shows a man how little other people know"

Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Author

"A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!"

Edgar Bergen, Actor

"I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering, and delivering with a sense of violent love"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction"

Simon Bolivar, Leader

"We felt we had to know something of his back story. I don't think people in the cinema would just accept that he's there. I think we had to learn how he (got there)"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"I would love to do more movies. I'd like to get into some theater, too, if I could, just to learn more. I want to do gritty performances that I'm proud of. It doesn't matter to me if four people see it or millions of people see it, as long as I perform in such a way that people go, 'Wow!'"

Jason Dohring, Actor

"General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation"

Chief Joseph, Leader

"Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

"The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge"

Meister Eckhart, Philosopher

"These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable"

Kinky Friedman, Musician

"People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug"

Edmond De Goncourt, Writer

"I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn't know who I was. And things just get really dark"

Angelina Jolie, Actress

"I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It is the truth"

Brad Pitt, Actor

"We believe democracy to be the only real guarantor of stability and we have sought to create a 'Jordanian model' that might also inspire others in our region. I wish democracy and peace to be my legacy to my people and the shield of generations to come"

King Hussein I, Statesman

"I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me"

William Howard Taft, President

"For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of others might be deprived of any realistic hope of gaining the opportunities now enjoyed by the more fortunate"

Herman Kahn, Scientist

"I think I owe thanks to the people who have listened to me over the years, who tuned in on the radio. They have given me a warmth and loyalty that I've never been able to repay. The way they have reached out to me has certainly been the highlight of my life"

Ernie Harwell, Celebrity

"The thing about being famous is, it's weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people"

Margot Kidder, Actress

"Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on"

Stephen Sondheim, Composer

"Young people and Indian people need to know that we existed in the 20th Century. We need to know who our heroes are and to know what we have done and accomplished in this century other than what Olympic athletes Jim Thorpe and Billy Mills have done"

Russell Means, Activist

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