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People Quotes
"Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls."
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"What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate?"
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"Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'"
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"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
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"So I don't cry anymore, I just beat people up. It's a lot more fun."
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"It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than by 60 million for something you're not."
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"My sympathies have always been for working-class people."
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"I figured the people who liked the sort of thing I was doing would come see it. If it was only 200 then that was alright and if it was 2000 then that is alright as well. I wasn't really interested in the big numbers; I was just interested in some numbers."
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"I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut-or get angry from the gut."
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"I've got news for you: There are going to be people other than Christians in the hereafter. What are you going to do about it? Are you not going to go?"
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"I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am."
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"People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'."
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"I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn't weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird."
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"In other words, unlike some people with new theories, we will go out, we'll go into a school and we get products and the products are evaluated, whether it's by teachers or others. The scores are quantified and then we compare performances."
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"Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors."
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"It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive."
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"I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."
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"When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally."
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"There are people who wish to do us harm in the most heinous way. They want to kill Americans simply because they are Americans. They wish to destroy our culture and Nation because they don't like our freedoms, they don't like the fact that we are prosperous."
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"People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors."
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"There's so much of, it could have been a very critical examination of what happened, and really the emotional lives of the people involved sort of carry the characters forward."
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"The people of the future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism."
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"I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform."
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"These irresponsible acts, which cannot have any justification whatsoever, are to be fully condemned. In these appalling circumstances, I want to offer you the most sincere condolences, both in my name and in that of the French people."
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"The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished."
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"When people say 'love to hate', they actually mean 'love to be appalled by' - if they truly hated them, they'd never repeat a catch phrase."
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"I want to make films that make a difference. I want to be out and hope that that will make things better for gay people and for myself. I hope one day I can start to make the kind of projects or be involved with kind of projects that can really make a difference."
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"I always tell people I want to live to be 150 and they say why would you want to do that. I say, well there's a few people I haven't made mad yet, I want to get them."
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"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."
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"If you have something that you know is important to you and vital to you... then this will perhaps help people understand the importance of confronting it and being brave about it."
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"There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way."
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"I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way."
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"You must go deeper into Russia - 150 kilometres from Moscow or more, and look there. The kids are fed with cattle feed - people don't get paid for half a year."
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"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."
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"What the Dalai Lama had to resolve was whether to stay in Tibet or leave. He wanted to stay, but staying would have meant the total destruction of Tibet, because he would have died and that would have ripped the heart out of his people."
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"They were targeting those people I referred to as 'little Eichmanns.' These were legitimate targets."
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