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People Quotes


"Little did we know it would be watched by millions of people and break viewing records."


"I try to be careful to not just say it's a greatest hits show because we've also made efforts to keep people up to date so to speak because we continually write and record and put out albums."


"Because I'm not trying to throw people any curves."


"One out of every eight Pennsylvanians and one in every 720 people in the United States, as well as one out of every 50 engineers and one out of every four meteorologists has a Penn State degree."


"Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it."


"If you get it out into the urban field it's going to be used or misused but it'll also probably provide a way of people acknowledging what the aesthetic is about because people have to confront it every day."


"Why do we need to wait until somebody sells 10 million records to give people a show like that? What about us smaller, hungry folk? At least gimme a curtain!"


"It's the same misconception I used to have. I meet people and think they're millionaires and they're not."


"I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand."



"That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done."


"I still believe the Lewinsky investigation was way off from the focus of what Whitewater was, which turned out to be nothing at the end of the process. And I think that there were people who were determined as political opponents to not allow his presidency to succeed."


"The 1st Congressional District contains almost half of the biotech and biomedical companies in Washington, and my job often allows me to meet the people responsible for this exciting research."


"So I don't cry anymore, I just beat people up. It's a lot more fun."


"Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband."


"I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves."


"The people must know that from this day on, we want their opinions."


"The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization."



"Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use, or a priest. You know, anywhere you lecture and pontificate to people."


"Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision."


"There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts."



"We want everybody to succeed. You know why? We want the country to succeed, and for the country to succeed, its people - its individuals - must succeed."


"The people of the future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism."


"I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform."


"The Macintosh having shipped, his next agenda was to turn the rest of Apple into the Mac group. He had perceived the rest of Apple wasn't as creative or motivated as the Mac team, and what you need to take over the company are managers, not innovators or technical people."


"As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it."



"I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out."


"A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers."


"I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percentage, the largest budget deficit in America, by percentage, larger than California, larger than New York, larger than Illinois. And we're going to balance that without raising taxes on the people of the state of New Jersey."


"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."


"Also, the commercial media in a superior position, really, to any other corporate lobby, because where would people hear about commercial media or corporate media criticism, where would they hear criticism of them other than in the commercial media?"


"There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them."


"Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another."
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