People Quotes

"I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults"

"What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations"

Imran Khan, Politician

"One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy"

Imran Khan, Politician

"You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible"

Anton Chekhov, Dramatist

"When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'"

Anton Chekhov, Dramatist

"I just kind of opened up and said, 'I feel like a rag doll. I have hair and makeup people coming to my house every day and putting me in new, uncomfortable, weird dresses and expensive shoes, and I just shut down and raise my arms up for them to get the dress on, and pout my lips when they need to put the lipstick on.'"

Jennifer Lawrence, Actress

"We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!"

Betty Friedan, Activist

"People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are just staggering"

Michael Zaslow, Actor

"I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face"

Ralph Fiennes, Actor

"I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"All what we hope for is that a day will come, when we have all gone, when people will say that this man has tried, and his family tried. This is all there is to seek in this world"

King Hussein I, Statesman

"Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it, working for it, believing in it, security can never really be a reality"

King Hussein I, Statesman

"No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people"

William Howard Taft, President

"That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them"

Kristin Hersh, Musician

"I don't have the inclinations that other people seem to have as far as the business is concerned"

Kristin Hersh, Musician

"I hope that people learn from my mistake and I hope that the fans forgive me"

Rafael Palmeiro, Athlete

"The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights"

Potter Stewart, Judge

"When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa"

Hakeem Olajuwon, Athlete

"Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"I've stood up to producers before, and even a director. I saw them being abusive. A lot of people on the set are scared to say stuff when they're not being treated right"

Natalie Portman, Actress

"Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city"

Toni Morrison, Novelist

"A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people"

Toni Morrison, Novelist

"If I have stepped on some people at times because I am at the top, it couldn't be helped. What should I do if someone gets hurt... retire?"

Maria Callas, Musician

"Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II"

Pope Benedict XVI, Pope

"She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else"

Anne Bronte, Novelist

"There are certain regions in the country where the indigenous people eat dogs"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity"

Herman Kahn, Scientist

"Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved"

Ralph Fiennes, Actor

"There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life?. We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given"

Natalie Portman, Actress

"I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with"

Natalie Portman, Actress

"If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain"

William Howard Taft, President

"I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk"

William Howard Taft, President

"We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it, that governs it by the virtue of its language and savage culture"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"I've learnt and I just want to be respected for what I've achieved on the pitch. I know I haven't achieved much off it but I do know I've given pleasure to people watching me play football over the years"

Paul Gascoigne, Athlete

"I think that most people really know if it's a really great album"

Carly Simon, Musician

"It's horrible to think that a small cadre of people would manipulate that information. I mean, for God's sake, we've admitted that we were experimenting on our veterans with mustard gas. So there is no security question. It can't possibly be the reason"

Dwight Schultz, Actor

"And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset"

Pat Robertson, Clergyman

"It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them"

P. G. Wodehouse, Writer

"There is nothing difficult about my work, and people get to hear it from me"

Tracey Emin, Artist

"It pleases me that people can be interactive"

Tracey Emin, Artist

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