People Quotes

"Most people compliment me on maintaining my femininity while I'm on the court. People like the fact that I model. My fans or little girls always say they want to play sports, but also want to be a model like me and I think that's great"

Lisa Leslie, Athlete

"Years and years ago, when everyone knew that Pierce was going to be doing the job, they started selecting new people. I had this bizarre thing when I hadn't done many movies, and of going on for an interview"

Jeremy Northam, Actor

"It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them"

Jean Paul, Author

"All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people"

James A. Garfield, President

"I still have people saying to me, 'Oh, you're still together?' They don't realize Leppard's been around this whole time, because people just don't get to hear us"

Vivian Campbell, Musician

"When people ask me if Dean Martin drank, let me put it this way. If Dracula bit Dean in the neck, he'd get a Bloody Mary"

Red Buttons, Comedian

"I think the fact is that World Coming Down was just a really hard album for people to deal with"

Josh Silver, Musician

"I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience"

Harrison Ford, Actor

"People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?"

Claude Debussy, Composer

"Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking"

John McCarthy, Politician

"The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think"

James A. Garfield, President

"In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player"

David Geffen, Businessman

"I had to prove myself to a lot of different people"

Gerard Butler, Actor

"Coming back to a television series puts you back in the limelight and gives you a platform for your ideas. If you're not acting on a series, you don't get the ability to communicate to people"

Dennis Weaver, Actor

"Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory"

Claude Debussy, Composer

"Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing"

Charles Lamb, Critic

"Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people"

Charles Lamb, Critic

"To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that"

Aldrich Ames, Criminal

"Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage; there's no betrayal of trust"

Aldrich Ames, Criminal

"I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming into the Agency at that time. You could call it liberal anti-communism"

Aldrich Ames, Criminal

"The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money"

Rick Wright, Musician

"This is really showing me what certain movies mean to people"

Noah Hathaway, Actor

"It is hard for 2 creative people to work together for that length of time and not fall out"

Jim Sullivan, Musician

"Age affects how people experience time"

Edward T. Hall, Scientist

"We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies"

Bill Maher, Comedian

"I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm sure that later on I'll start killing people in a square somewhere, but right now, I just feel happy to be alive"

Lars von Trier, Director

"The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority"

Kim Il-sung, Leader

"People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway"

Tim Vine, Comedian

"I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me"

Ralph Ellison, Author

"I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me"

Ralph Ellison, Author

"And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet"

Peter Davison, Actor

"Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness"

George Sand, Novelist

"People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other"

Johnny Rotten, Musician

"For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking... giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move"

Edward T. Hall, Scientist

"A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under"

Sam Houston, Politician

"People say that I'm always late, but that's a myth"

Milla Jovovich, Model

"I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work"

Julian Bond, Activist

"You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people"

Stephen Sondheim, Composer

"If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it"

Stephen Sondheim, Composer

"I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface"

Stephen Sondheim, Composer

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