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People Quotes


"One of the great things about being recognized is that you receive this feedback from people. It is easy to see how sincere people are. It's nothing fake or jive. They're giving sincere appreciation. And it's not that easy to express."


"It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest."


"People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories."


"It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people."


"I have numerous people who have expressed a willingness to be plaintiffs."


"I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them."


"I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure."


"We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays."


"I think when two people get together, their past is their past. Their reputations are reputations. You can only take someone the way you find them... on face value. I think that was how we were both, the way we were."


"It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge."


"Many times, people attack the well-to-do people. They see an opportunity."


"I could only speak in the smallest, most intimate circles about the real reasons which made me undertake the changeover of the plants for certain lines of production for I had to expect that many people would not understand me."


"People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver."


"If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice."


"I think there's an element where people get very comfortable in their ghetto. Which is fair enough."


"I enjoy playing people that are totally different than me."


"My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people."


"People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind."


"I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people."


"We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory."


"I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people."


"Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!"


"People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!"


"But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside."


"The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals."


"Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people."


"Washington is a great international city and in the congregation we have people who are rich and poor, black and white, and from every part of the world."


"For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige."


"I was a virgin. People find that hard to believe, but when you're raised in a church, that was just the way it is."


"But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth."


"I think all jocks have a sensitive side. It's just, will they show it to anybody? Will they let their guard down and stop being tough and the cool jock guy around their friends, or just relax? I don't know if it's best to say opening up, but just relax and really say what you're actually thinking, and not what you think people want to hear."


"We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third of the gay movement voted Republican."


"I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss them if other people want to discuss them."
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