John Conyers Quotes

Every few generations there are people who come along that change the way we look at the world, for musical enthusiasts Monk is one of these individuals.

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• When I sing, people shut up.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Up
  • Sing

• Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • People
  • Job
  • Enemy

• So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • People
  • Audience
  • Songs

• Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • World
  • Game
  • Best

• Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • World
  • Good
  • History

• I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Want
  • City

• I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • Why
  • Know

• If you've been in a film that's seen by millions and millions and millions of people, you're more likely to be recognized for that than for your theater performances, which were seen by considerably less people. Why would I get upset by that?

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Why
  • Upset

• I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Different
  • Political

• 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

• Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • World
  • Good
  • Bad

• All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Desire
  • Natural

• Music is really something that makes people whole.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • People
  • Music
  • Something

• I think that it's hard for vain people to be funny. I think you can look any way you want as long as you have a good sense of humor about yourself. People who are concerned with their looks and what they're wearing and how they present themselves tend to have less of a sense of humor about themselves.

  

  Taran Killam
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • People
  • Different
  • Lost

• So many people are following fashion now. It's become fashion-tainment.

  

  Zac Posen
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Now

• The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt people.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • People
  • Important
  • Power

• I can't afford to step away from acting, but the one thing I've learnt after all these years is that I don't fit in. It's very difficult to be at the mercy of other people's whims and visions.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Acting
  • Mercy

• Everything I do is for my people.

  

  Sacagawea
  • People

• 'Austerity' is a real weasel word because it's an attempt to make something value-based and abstract out of something which, in reality, consists simply of spending cuts.

  

  John Lanchester
  • Real
  • Reality
  • Value

• For some reason, my main movie, Lady Sings the Blues, to me really isn't me. I really can let go of Diana Ross when I see the movie. I'm really objective when I'm watching it. I liked that movie so much. That movie was like magic so that when I'm looking at it I'm really not seeing myself, I'm seeing the actress. I'm seeing another person, not the me of me.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Movie
  • Reason
  • Magic

• But the most obvious fact about praise — whether of God or anything — strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise unless (sometimes even if) shyness or the fear of boring others is deliberately brought in to check it.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Giving
  • Fear

• Every few generations there are people who come along that change the way we look at the world, for musical enthusiasts Monk is one of these individuals.

  

  John Conyers
  • People
  • World