Charlize Theron Quotes

I think more than anything, people just want to be understood.

Charlize Theron

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• In America, people buy cars, and they put very little money down. They get a car, and they go to work. The work pays them a salary; the salary allows them to pay for the car over time. The car pays for itself.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• No, I am a crier and if people ever saw me privately they would be shocked at what a bowl of mush I am underneath it all.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Shocked
  • Crier

• History is more interesting than most people think.

  

  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  • People
  • History
  • Interesting

• Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Believe
  • Yourself

• I talk about millennials with a healthy dose of humility, as I'm a card-carrying member of Generation X. But I have daily interaction with young people at Dana Perino & Co., through my Minute Mentoring organization, with digital friends on social media, and especially at Fox News.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Friends
  • Daily

• If you got a dope girl, there's going to be people that want her. But I don't know, I've always kept my 'A-game' on point. I just make a point to make sure the woman that I'm with is taken care of. You got to keep it new, so I go out of my way to make them feel special.

  

  Lance Gross
  • People
  • Game
  • Girl

• It's really nice to be in something that you really love and want to share with people. And then, for it to actually get shown and for people to be able to see it is awesome. It's really exciting.

  

  Kate Mara
  • People
  • Love
  • Exciting

• If you believe in justice, if you believe in democracy, if you believe in people's rights, if you believe in the harmony of all humankind - then you have no choice but to back Fidel Castro as long as it takes!

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • People
  • Believe
  • Long

• I was at a party New Year's Eve, and - no lie - at least 10 different people came up to me. One guy was like, 'I lost 30 pounds because of you.' So people just coming up to me. I don't know these people - random people.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • People
  • Man
  • Past

• On a personal basis, when I decided to become a writer, about the last reason I did it was because I thought I'd meet interesting people and make new friends. But that has turned out to be the very best part.

  

  Vicki Delany
  • People
  • Friends
  • Interesting

• With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • People
  • Up
  • Say

• We like to put people on a pedestal, give them one character trait, and if they step outside of that shrinelike area that we blocked out for them, then we will punish them.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Character
  • Step

• I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • People
  • Art
  • History

• Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf.

  

  Harper Lee
  • People
  • Home
  • Dream

• I think the original, 'They're the next Jane's Addiction' things that people said about us in the beginning have been pretty much wiped out.

  

  Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• I almost always do things that I like, in some form or fashion. Every once in awhile that means that I don't think the script is any good and I don't have any trust in the people, but the film is shooting in Sri Lanka, or somewhere like that, so I'm going.

  

  Billy Campbell
  • People
  • Good
  • Fashion

• People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.

  

  Cullen Hightower
  • People
  • Done
  • Famous

• Software was changing so fast, so unbelievable, that that got very quick adoption.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Software
  • Adoption

• I became what I wanted to be.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Wanted
  • Became

• When the pots containing two worms which had remained quite indifferent to the sound of the piano, were placed on this instrument, and the note C in the bass clef was struck, both instantly retreated into their burrows.

  

  Charles Darwin

• I think more than anything, people just want to be understood.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • People
  • I Think
  • Understood