People Quotes

"I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them"

Patrick Stewart, Actor

"Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness"

Jason Schwartzman, Actor

"Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system"

Carly Fiorina, Businessman

"I can understand in some sense, having played the character, how unimaginably frustrating it is for people to tell you that you can't love who you love, because you ain't going to change it, and so they have to get out of your way"

Piper Perabo, Actress

"All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

"Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another"

Milan Kundera, Writer

"We, the people of the United States, we are a great Nation with a great vision"

Steve Buyer, Politician

"I guess people think the taller you are the more dominant you have to be"

Shaquille O'Neal, Athlete

"But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from"

Carly Fiorina, Businessman

"If you are making music for other people, you will have to be aware of how people relate to it"

Ken Hill, Playwright

"You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course"

Jello Biafra, Musician

"It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda"

Jello Biafra, Musician

"The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid"

Branford Marsalis, Musician

"If I were like a lot of other people, then it wouldn't be fun; but since I'm like me, it's okay"

Branford Marsalis, Musician

"I've never tried to emulate anyone. I've never idolized people, I prefer instead to get off on attitudes"

Michael Hutchence, Musician

"We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ"

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, President

"Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower"

Alan Kay, Scientist

"I know one thing: There are a billion Islamic people in the world today, and there will be about 2 billion by the time we're dead. They're not going to give up their religion"

Chris Matthews, Journalist

"I don't believe he had a responsibility to even answer that question - you have no responsibility to answer personal questions that people have no right to ask you"

Chris Matthews, Journalist

"It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there"

Patrick Stewart, Actor

"The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music"

Branford Marsalis, Musician

"If you're going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you're going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation that's based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, you're down to about 10 people or so"

Branford Marsalis, Musician

"There are a lot of people who would laugh at the idea of me being a good singer"

Nancy Sinatra, Musician

"I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of credence"

Nancy Sinatra, Musician

"The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition"

Naguib Mahfouz, Novelist

"I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges"

Harrison Ford, Actor

"No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by"

Franz Schubert, Composer

"I wanted to make these people real, not like they were in a painting. Like these are people who don't know they're in a period movie. Those concerns are incredibly immediate"

Neil LaBute, Director

"Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people"

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Royalty

"Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?"

Neil LaBute, Director

"Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?"

Mary Douglas, Scientist

"What I'm getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting people jobs, we could just hire half the people in the country to spy on the other half"

Jello Biafra, Musician

"I don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people think that they'll be very disappointed"

Michael Hutchence, Musician

"We're not the millionaires that people think when they see busses"

Josh Silver, Musician

"The thing of it is though that's the only way people know you, they see you in that roll and they see you in person and they only know the perception of what you are"

David Selby, Actor

"It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into"

John McCarthy, Politician

"Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals"

Clarence Darrow, Lawyer

"When you succeed at creating your own world, whether it's in any realm - like Tolkien was able to do - and people are able to enter that world, it's a special thing"

David Selby, Actor

"There's so much of, it could have been a very critical examination of what happened, and really the emotional lives of the people involved sort of carry the characters forward"

Jeremy Northam, Actor

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