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"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."

Will Rogers, American Actor

People, Hollywood, Writing

"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

People, Suffering, Taste

"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

People, Excellence

"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

People, May

"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

People, Country

"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

People, Faults, Merit

"You can stroke people with words."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

People, Words

"One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide."

Will Rogers, American Actor

People, states, United

"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

People, Blind, Self

"I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

People, Comedy, Sense

Explore more quotes by Krzysztof Kieslowski

"Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory."

People, Memory

"Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one."

Emotional, Feeling, Worth

"In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all."

Life, Names

"The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad."

Television, World

"To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work."

Love, Work, Truth, Ending

"Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?"

Equality, People, Liberty, Want

"We're always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love."

Love, Eyes, Suffering

"For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you."

Optimism, Lovers, Sunset, Walking

"I have no problem being with people of different nationalities."

People, Being