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People Quotes


"If we don't have an informed electorate we don't have a democracy. So I don't care how people get the information, as long as they get it. I'm just doing it my particular way and I feel lucky I can do it the way I want to do it."


"There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win."



"People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that."


"Very few people can truly divorce themselves from what they feel emotionally and sexually."


"Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters."



"So many people bare their midriffs, I don't know why mine is such an issue."


"People can say anything they want to. If they don't want to get the news from me, get it from somebody else. It's not something I'm going to worry about, I'm sorry."



"It's about these people who are inextricably together for whatever reasons, and they happen to be in the spy world. It's about relationships, and the bottom line is, that's why you care."



"That's why it's called Sebastian Bach. I mean, it's a permanent band, pretty much, but if I jam with other people, it just makes a better album, I think."


"I've made a lot of mistakes. I've bonded with some people who use you, and some people that take advantage of you."



"People also don't care about the daily comings and goings of diplomats and yet we must report it."


"Like at Halloween: I knew I'd arrived when I saw people dressing up on Halloween as my character."


"The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being inherited from a long line of ancestors."



"Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle."


"It brings people together. It brings the races together. It brings religions together."


"My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message."



"Thousands of people come to LA every year, and some of them just disappear. Somebody gets them. In the States around 100,000 people vanish each year. I don't know what that means. Maybe there's something that just pulls 'em out."


"I consider myself fortunate that I've been able to find a character that people have responded to."


"To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give."


"Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns."


"Nanotechnology is an idea that most people simply didn't believe."


"Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing."


"Pride is the first step in people unraveling and companies unraveling and relationships unraveling."


"The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people."


"Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil."



"For me, it's an experiment to see what people are gonna think of it."


"Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life."


"If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation."


"I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's."


"I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are drivers."


"Survivor has been such a hit, and out of that have come so many interesting stories from people that we don't see on the big screen. We have helped make them incredible celebrities."


"People who say that the Internet is the bubble are incredibly misguided."


"But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them."


"In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means."


"I'd rather have ten people who are mad for it than ten thousand who aren't."
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