People Quotes

"It's a matter of keeping people on a spontaneous edge"

"The great mistake these people make is that they go to looking after the spiritual welfare of the Indians before securing their physical"

George Crook, Soldier

"Art exists for the human species. I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all of you should burn with the obligation to save the world"

Shinichi Suzuki, Musician

"That is a lot of the reason I do what I do, to really spread the word and spread information and turn people onto different things they may not be, y'know, aware of. That is what Naked City is certainly about"

John Zorn, Composer

"For about seven years. I really like it there. There are a lot of great musicians. The scene is very open. A lot of stuff going on. People's ears are really open, they are not closed. A lot of scenes here, people just get tunnel vision and are into one thing"

John Zorn, Composer

"Well, today, we are in the struggle brought on to us by the terrorists of Islam. It is a war that we did not choose. It was a war that was declared against us as Americans, against our people, against our Constitution"

Todd Tiahrt, Politician

"Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder"

Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman

"With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts"

Joseph Addison, Writer

"The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature"

James Thurber, Comedian

"I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant"

J. William Fulbright, Politician

"You can fool too many of the people too much of the time"

James Thurber, Comedian

"In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their resources; we are also denying the world the example of a free society enjoying its freedom to the fullest"

J. William Fulbright, Politician

"The one thing that I know is that you win with good people"

Don Shula, Coach

"I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator"

Allen Ginsberg, Poet

"You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad"

E. B. White, Writer

"The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work"

Jennifer Lopez, Musician

"I judge people on how they smell, not how they look"

Jennifer Lopez, Musician

"I can only speak for myself, and hope people hear my words and see me on television speaking for myself. And, hopefully, they'll be able to make their own judgment. And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself"

Jennifer Lopez, Musician

"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time"

E. B. White, Writer

"Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it"

E. B. White, Writer

"Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"It's a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement"

E. B. White, Writer

"The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind"

E. B. White, Writer

"A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it"

Jacques Yves Cousteau, Explorer

"People protect what they love"

Jacques Yves Cousteau, Explorer

"I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind"

Henri Poincare, Mathematician

"What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"There are certain people that are marked for death. I have my little list of those that treated me unfairly"

Jennifer Lopez, Musician

"So I sat down with him and portrayed more the side of the character he needed to see. Which is what I do when I go in for an interview for a part I like. As much as you think you're dealing with creative people, they see you for what your image is out there"

Jennifer Lopez, Musician

"People equate sexy with promiscuous. They think that because I'm shaped this way, I must be scandalous - like running around and bringing men into my hotel room. But it's just the opposite"

Jennifer Lopez, Musician

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