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People Quotes


"Actually I consider myself a superficially normal looking person who has a vast collection of bizarre silly porn hidden in his basement, as all normal looking people do, and I'm keeping it hidden from everyone in the world except those few people with access to the Internet."


"You're not there to spread any particular- if you're Bob Marley you're there to spread a message, but very few people can do that effectively without shoving opinions down someone's throat."


"One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's been there - but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it."


"They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody thinks they're next on the list. The president comes along, and he's got his six-guns strapped on, and people think he's going to save them."


"I'm an American first, and I think that's how most people are."


"The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people."



"I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am."


"A lot of people want to die for a lot of reasons."


"I was very concerned that President Bush is still trying to frighten or scare the American people with respect to the condition of the Social Security system."


"Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it."


"No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good."


"I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe."


"People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient, or even intolerant."


"Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die."


"I have loved my German people and my fatherland with a warm heart."


"These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder."


"I am rich from the bequests other gifted people have seen fit to leave to me."


"So I think we have an obligation with our size to make sure that we are open to what people have to say to us because the people who criticize us, they're not all mean-spirited."


"Well, you know, when people say stuff about you, it's always really flattering. But does it mean anything to me? It's not really real to me; there's no reality to it."


"So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories."


"They also explained how the sensors can monitor the levels of acetone on people's breath, and this can be used to tell people who suffer from diabetes when their next insulin shot is due. This is a more discreet method than what is currently on the market."



"Contrary to what most people think, there is a Rich Daley under Mayor Daley."



"Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be."



"I don't think very many people would accuse Paula Zahn of being a conservative."


"When I look out at the audience at some of our shows, I think we are reaching a younger audience... I see lots of people in their 30s and 40s, but I also see a lot of people in their young and middle teens, and that's definitely reassuring."


"The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety."


"The last few years have been my happiest. I'm happy in the years that most people are blue and sad and waiting to die. I don't feel that a bit. Smiling has a lot to do with it. You can just lift your spirits by smiling a little bit."



"People ask for criticism, but they only want praise."


"Are we going to go out and arrest and detain and deport 11 million people? Nobody would argue that that is what we are going to do, because we have never demonstrated the political will to do that, nor have we ever committed the requisite resources to do that."


"He knew a lot about his grandparents - and perhaps he feels he's been endowed with abilities to go into people's heads who are long dead - but, to a certain extent, he's making it up."


"I mean people have compared us to like the Grateful Dead and all these like psychedelic sixties bands."



"In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us."



"In survey after survey, the Iraqi people say, 'We want to choose our leaders.'"


"Water is free of charge. Why then do people drink Evian?"



"About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh."



"I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up."
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