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People Quotes
"As a teenager, I didn't want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me."
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"It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me."
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"I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them."
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"People blame me because these water mains break, but I ask you, if the water mains didn't break, would it be my responsibility to fix them then?"
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"There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness."
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"I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying."
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"I have no desire to be president of the United States. Zero desire. I don't think that I would be electable. And there are far too many people that are far smarter than me to be president. I'd like to find one with some honor and integrity. I haven't seen them yet, but they'll show up."
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"Sometimes you have to let people down in order to get on, particularly in showbusiness."
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"Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them."
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"I represent all the enlightened people in this country, and that's a fine thing to be able to do. It infuriates my opponents when I say this, but it is true."
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"Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people."
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"Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves."
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"Constantly there's a credibility issue; you're judged on how you look. If you look good, people assume you aren't credible. It's a battle you'll always fight if you're on TV and a female."
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"All companies of any size have to continue to push to make sure you get the right leaders, the right team, the right people to be fast acting, and fast moving in the marketplace. We've got great leaders, and we continue to attract and promote great new leaders."
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"The information is in the people, not in your head."
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"Bobby was one of the few people I had ever known who really wanted to do something for me."
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"For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of others might be deprived of any realistic hope of gaining the opportunities now enjoyed by the more fortunate."
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"People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists."
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"If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em."
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"The man I lived with is a Christian, so I would talk to him about it. What would this person do in the Bible? What's the story around this person? Generally, when people talk about characters in the Bible, there's one thing they're known for, like Job."
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"I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit."
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"I definitely enjoy being in front of people which gives me that exciting immediate rush."
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"People who know me know I'm strong, but I'm vulnerable."
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"There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people."
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"Reality TV finds talented people. There are no scripts. The editing is what it's all about. Great editing makes those shows."
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"Last year, when we were in Mobile, Al., covering Hurricane Ivan, we heard the stories of poor people, many of them black stranded downtown because they had no way out."
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"We went online to surrogacy agencies. We interviewed lots of people - and I have to say, with all due respect, some of them were freaks. I was very leery of the process the whole way through."
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"Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people."
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"Although AmeriCorps is making a difference among its participants and the people they serve, we must address homelessness and the need for job training among our veterans."
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"I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with."
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"What the nation's built on is discussion, contradiction and growth, and at the moment you can't discuss anything. If you do start to discuss it, you get criticized. If people hate us, you have to find out why and try to solve that problem."
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"For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression."
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