People Quotes

"I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make"

Shimon Peres, Statesman

"The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all"

Peter Davison, Actor

"People are talking about the Internet as though it is going to change the world. It's not going to change the world. It's not going to change the way we think, and it's not going to change the way we feel"

Peter Davison, Actor

"If I were brave enough to say so, I'd like to think that I had written some poems that people are not going to forget"

Peter Davison, Actor

"People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware"

Alan Kay, Scientist

"If I can make people laugh it's like being a good lover"

Spalding Gray, Actor

"We had a showing of Battlestar in LA last week. I walked out the door and there were 50 people. I signed a ton of autographs. Other actors walked away without signing. These are the fans. I guess it depends. on who you are"

Noah Hathaway, Actor

"It's up to people like us, all of us, to address and talk about things like runaway global warming and how we can use things like remote viewing to save our planet"

Jim Sullivan, Musician

"Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it"

James Levine, Musician

"Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself"

Alice Walker, Author

"Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me"

Alma Guillermoprieto, Journalist

"The information is in the people, not in your head"

Edward T. Hall, Scientist

"You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other, the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies"

Clive Owen, Actor

"Zionism demands a publicly recognized and legally secured homeland in Palestine for the Jewish people. This platform is unchangeable"

Theodor Herzl, Journalist

"The spirit in which the offer was made must of necessity contribute to improving and alleviating the situation of the Jewish people without our renouncing one iota of the great principles upon which our movement is based"

Theodor Herzl, Journalist

"Palestine is our unforgettable historic home. The very name would be a force of marvelous potency for summoning our people together"

Theodor Herzl, Journalist

"I met a congressman who claimed that he could introduce me to two people who saw Amelia Earhart"

Jim Sullivan, Musician

"There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one that was meeting the challenges and making things better for people as we approach the 21st century"

Sanford I. Weill, Businessman

"A lot of people at Shearson ended up making a lot of money because they had stock or stock options. Their kids were able to go to college, and it changed a lot of people's lives"

Sanford I. Weill, Businessman

"I want as many people as possible to hear my music. I'm happy to entertain people by being a star"

Kid Rock, Musician

"A lot of people told me that I'm committing musical suicide with my sound"

Kid Rock, Musician

"I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them"

Spalding Gray, Actor

"Lots of people think it was Jimmy Page who had the first fuzzbox. It wasn't, No! it wasn't me either"

Jim Sullivan, Musician

"Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people"

Fred Rogers, Celebrity

"People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped"

Nadine Gordimer, Novelist

"Most people miss the great part mental outlook plays in this game"

Billy Martin, Athlete

"Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person"

Julian Bond, Activist

"I could care less about what people think. I'm a Devil Without A Cause"

Kid Rock, Musician

"Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin"

Tim Vine, Comedian

"Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would"

Suzanne Vega, Musician

"Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers"

Peter Davison, Actor

"The character of a people may be ruined by charity"

Theodor Herzl, Journalist

"So Indian policy has become institutionalized and the result has been that American people have become more dependent on government and that the American people have become more dependent on corporations"

Russell Means, Activist

"We found that when people put this issue on the table, it turns out that men acknowledge the issue, and employers and employees can work out solutions just as working mothers do"

James Levine, Musician

"I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about"

Sanford I. Weill, Businessman

"From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we're going to build something great, to have a lot of people share in the benefits of that greatness"

Sanford I. Weill, Businessman

"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men"

Alice Walker, Author

"My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you"

Ted Koppel, Journalist

"Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that"

Suzanne Vega, Musician

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