Don Imus Quotes

I talk to millions of people every day. I just like it when they can't talk back.

Don Imus

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• You are dealing with people who have taken the responsibility of killing their own because they think that they are right, they think that they are serving the interests of their people. They not going to give that up easily, just because you've shown up.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • Up
  • Responsibility

• We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Never
  • Explain

• I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Inspiration
  • Advice

• We must never relent in our efforts to resolve conflicts through diplomacy and through all of the instruments bestowed by the Charter of the United Nations.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Diplomacy
  • United Nations

• Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really getting is just me.

  

  Harland Williams
  • People
  • Character
  • Think

• My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.

  

  Damian Marley
  • People
  • Music
  • Father

• The line between anime and regular animation is very difficult to cross, even for people who have been doing anime successfully for years.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • People
  • Doing
  • Animation

• People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Reality
  • Movies

• My mum was a nurse, and her passion was geriatric care. I used to love listening to the old people's stories in her nursing home and picturing myself in their place. They'd say, 'I went to school in a horse and cart,' and I'd just think 'Wow!' I'd picture myself in their place - acting was a natural progression.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • School
  • Love

• It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Music
  • Girl

• As an old-time New Yorker, it's not that I miss the '70s and '80s or whatever. I miss the fact that there was a certain kind of energy that exists when people can live for nothing.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• I used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Think
  • Know
  • Comedy

• I can make the argument that people who don't have the biggest ranges but have very unique voices, even if they may be pitchy at times... with the right record that's really unique and distinct, they can have big hits.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • May
  • Unique

• The Bowery was a place that would let us do original songs - not just covers - but we would have to work for tips, so we learned how to work an audience. In order to keep our jobs, we had to keep people happy, so that meant playing the latest Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top or Merle Haggard.

  

  Randy Owen
  • People
  • Work
  • Happy

• There's nothing worse than people who want to make you feel better when you are losing. I just want to smack them.

  

  Kate Mara
  • People
  • Better
  • Losing

• I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Up
  • Value

• For most people who have or who do identify as or with [song] Straight Edge, I feel like for most people, they're just trying to do the right thing.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Trying
  • Song

• In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.

  

  Benjamin Todd Jealous
  • Great
  • American

• With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Political
  • Respect
  • Attention

• I am normal. In fact, I think I might be more normal than anyone else.

  

  Jim McMahon

• For years that may mean imitation. Then, one day, it is like a door opening, and a new thought comes in. Why not try this instead. Suddenly he is doing something original, almost in spite of himself.

  

  Lukas Foss
  • Why
  • May
  • Door

• I talk to millions of people every day. I just like it when they can't talk back.

  

  Don Imus
  • People