People Quotes

"What helped me was I had people around me to remind me to help my country even when it did me wrong, have respect for my people, my family, my nation and mankind"

Alexis Arguello, Athlete

"I could do what a lot of people are doing and that's sign the best Nicaraguan fighters and then sell them to Don King, but there's no way I'll do that"

Alexis Arguello, Athlete

"Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to"

Alexis Bledel, Actress

"There are so many people that have come up to me during our shows and tell me: "The hour that we are watching your show is the hour that my kids are happiest and are smiling, they are laughing," and that is what I long to do"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

"I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read"

Carl Sandburg, Poet

"It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling"

Aaron Sorkin, Producer

"Why are people unemployed? Because there is no work. Why is there no work? Because people are not buying products and services. Why are people not buying products and services? Because they have no money. Why do people have no money? Because they are unemployed"

Craig Bruce

"Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?"

Isadora Duncan, Dancer

"People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life"

Isadora Duncan, Dancer

"A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"The only place where people in Manhattan walk for leisure is in the park"

Christo, Artist

"As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous"

Dennis Potter, Dramatist

"But this is an occupational hazard of being a scientist. You say this is the best information I have and then you realize that not everyone is going to read the footnotes or the whole book, so people are going to get the wrong impression"

Bjorn Lomborg, Scientist

"People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?"

Anne McCaffrey, Author

"Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims"

Anne McCaffrey, Author

"But this is a little different. This is the adult acting. This is a different crowd. It's more work and more good work. That's it. People will have their opinion regardless"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"The American people have every right to be outraged with the administration's approval of the UAE port deal. It is time the people's House make the security of our Nation's ports a priority"

Russ Carnahan, Politician

"6.6 million people will benefit from a rise in the minimum wage"

Russ Carnahan, Politician

"By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions"

Norman Ralph Augustine, Author

"A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen"

Matt Groening, Cartoonist

"I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion"

Malcolm X, Activist

"How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand"

Emo Philips, Comedian

"Bulls do not win bull fights. People do"

Norman Ralph Augustine, Author

"Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship"

Garry Shandling, Comedian

"Young people want you to be real with them"

Magic Johnson, Athlete

"The important thing is this Just because I'm doing well doesn't mean that they're going to do well if they get HIV. A lot of people have died since I have announced. This disease is not going anywhere"

Magic Johnson, Athlete

"Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition"

Magic Johnson, Athlete

"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you"

Carl Sandburg, Poet

"And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time"

Frank Gehry, Architect

"Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy"

Hannes Alfven, Scientist

"I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on"

Oscar Levant, Composer

"There is still a future with music, because people want music"

Maynard James Keenan, Musician

"I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

"People like to pigeonhole you"

Jason Statham, Actor

"The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not"

Neal Boortz, Journalist

"A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of"

Neal Boortz, Journalist

"Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily"

Maynard James Keenan, Musician

"I think people in general have neglected to learn about history"

Maynard James Keenan, Musician

"I cover media people the way they cover politicians"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

"People take chances every now and then, and you don't want to disappoint them"

Jason Statham, Actor

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