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People Quotes
"There are 38,000 people dying of hunger each day and most are children. And, being a celebrity, I communicate about it as much as I can."
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"People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something."
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"A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position."
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"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."
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"President Bush has had an outstanding Secretary of State in Colin Powell and there are not many people who could replace him, making Condoleezza Rice an excellent choice."
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"I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line."
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"Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar."
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"I have to admit that I'm one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle."
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"It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh."
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"I can't tell you how many people have asked me to show them Stray Cat Strut and that little diminished run on the C. I guess my brain is wired backwards. I don't know what possessed me to do that, but I did."
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"I don't remember ever being full of dislike and hatred for people, like some kids I've come across now."
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"War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other."
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"I just took the idea that King Kong was too big for everything and reversed it and put George in a land of giants, which is basically what every kid goes through anyway - that, you know, the world is made for grownups, for tall people, for the giants."
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"Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it."
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"I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out."
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"Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win."
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"I don't think people realize the extent to which TV networks are hurt when they carry public broadcasting. I think the estimate is that they lose a half-million dollars for a half day's programming."
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"Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed."
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"Our purpose is to be up here to resolve these issues. Our purpose is to be up here and represent the people."
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"We had every problems starting a big top could have. The tent fell down on the first day. We had problems getting people into the shows. It was only with the courage and arrogance of youth that we survived."
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"I'm delighted to be Number 1, but next week I don't want people to buy my record, I want them to buy Band Aid."
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"This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky."
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"Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit."
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"The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice."
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"My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about changes to Python internals or at least standard libraries."
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"Anytime you open your mouth there's going to be someone who's put off. I try to deal with that by keeping the topical portions of my show brief. I realize that some people wish my comments were briefer."
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"There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on."
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"Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives."
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"I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words."
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"Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set."
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"I don't belong in the world. That's what it is. Something separates me from other people."
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"To confront those fears, in a controlled environment, where there's 300 people around you going through the same thing, it's this weird sort of yin and yang."
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"Well, for one thing, the executives in charge at Cartoon Network are cartoon fans. I mean, these are people who grew up loving animation and loving cartoons, and the only difference between them and me is they don't know how to draw."
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"There are so many people I wish I could have met:"
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"All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged."
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"By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed."
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"People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization."
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"I think the Olympics could help us reach more people."
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"You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do."
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