Woody Harrelson Quotes

It's not terrible, people telling you you're great; what's terrible is when you start believing it.

Woody Harrelson

• People
• Believe
• Terrible

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• People have to evolve.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • People
  • Evolve

• The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • People
  • Gentle
  • Haitian

• If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Control
  • Gun

• The way you dress or the car you drive or what you spend is to impress other people with how, I guess, successful and rich you are. But you're not, and you shouldn't, and who gives a damn what other people think anyway. So, that mentality, I think, is very destructive.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Car
  • Successful

• I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • People
  • Friends
  • Intelligent

• We lived in a flat that you could pretty much fit in my current kitchen. No wonder people drink! I can't understand why they don't throw themselves off the balconies.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Why
  • Pretty

• At the Justice Department, we have no greater obligation than ensuring all people are treated equally under the law, and Americans must know that we will vigorously pursue criminal activity regardless of whether the crime is committed on a street corner or in a corner office.

  

  Sally Yates
  • People
  • Law
  • Justice

• There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne, the great master swordsman and brilliant stunt double.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • People
  • Brilliant
  • Helped

• People treat you one way when you're champion, but when you're not the champion, everything changes. People treat you different.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Different
  • Changes

• You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Positive
  • Yourself

• The first thing that's important is to really have people believe in you. If you have that, you can do anything.

  

  Wale
  • People
  • Believe
  • Important

• It makes me feel kind of weird, but obviously the Man Upstairs gave me something and it touches people, and I'm just so blessed.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • People
  • Man
  • Weird

• Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.

  

  Nas
  • People
  • Up
  • Expectations

• I'm very good at forgetting people.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • People
  • Good

• As human beings, we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions, to judge people too quickly, and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration.

  

  Prince Charles
  • People
  • Judge
  • Jump

• One of my favorite artists is Tom Waits, whom most people think of as a wonderful singer-songwriter and a great poet. I certainly think of him that way, but I also know him as a terrific actor. You know, that persona that he puts on when he's doing his music comes from being an actor, figuring out a persona.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• In the universities, we teach you what we decide you need to know. And the employers find out when they hire people that students didn't learn what we needed them to learn. Online learning offerings, like the University of Phoenix, have relationships with employers and teach what you need to know.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • People
  • Learning
  • Phoenix

• Boxing should not let - we should not let - the people in business of boxing should not let a person to just walk right in and get the grand prize of boxing. You can't do it in basketball, football, hockey.

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • People
  • Business
  • Football

• I love people who are inches away from completely falling apart. I think that's a fun, electric character to take on.

  

  Mariana Klaveno
  • People
  • Character
  • Fun

• People cheer the Bible, buy the Bible, give the Bible, own the Bible - they just don't actually read the Bible.

  

  John Ortberg
  • People
  • Bible
  • Cheer

• No matter what age people are, I hope the lesson is to be engaged. Understand what your government is doing. Follow them. Ask questions. There is a price to be paid for speaking truth to power, but you can live through it.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • Live
  • Power

• Sometimes when you get older — and I’m not talking about you, I’m talking generally, because everyone ages differently — things you think on and wish on start to seem real. And then you believe them, and before you know it they’re part of your history, and if someone challenges you on them and says they’re not true — why, then you get offended because you can’t remember the first part. All you know is that you’ve been called a liar.

  

  Sara Gruen
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Real

• It's not terrible, people telling you you're great; what's terrible is when you start believing it.

  

  Woody Harrelson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Terrible