William Fitzsimmons Quotes

I want to be very authentic when I perform, because I feel like I owe that to people listening. You can't go through the motions on music like this. You are making people feel a certain way, that you are not feeling yourself. It's like saying "I want you guys to cry, but I don't really care," which isn't right.

William Fitzsimmons

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• I love films that show people in a way that's so real it's almost unsettling, and that's what really inspires me because I write about people. I write about people that I know, so I want to portray them and portray myself in a way that is unapologetic.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Way
  • Inspires

• Being famous has changed a lot, because now there's so many outlets, between magazines, TV shows, and the Internet, for people to stalk and follow you. We created the monster.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Famous
  • Internet

• When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • People
  • Kind
  • Young

• In a nutshell though, it's just all about opening up to the people that really care about my career and really listening to everybody who is listening to me. It's just made me stronger, to really be able to open up that door and listen to everybody else's opinions.

  

  Raekwon
  • People
  • Up
  • Career

• People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Today

• To people of my generation, the picture show was really another dimension - sensual, whimsical. No uniforms or collective rites, but a place where little boys like me could laugh and feel free.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • People
  • Free
  • Picture

• Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Doubt
  • Values

• I actually hope people don't react to 'Impossible' in a way where they think it's terribly retro. The plot needed to do what it needed to do. But I'm a little surprised to find myself looking a little bit like an advocate of teen marriage. It takes some exceptional circumstances for that to be a reasonable idea.

  

  Nancy Werlin
  • People
  • Hope
  • Myself

• It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • People
  • Done
  • Strong

• Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • People
  • Important
  • May

• I pick up on other people's discomfort.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • People
  • Up
  • Other

• The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Great
  • Faith

• You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use your friends' goodwill, wheedle your way into this or that situation. The real problem is, how do you get people to see it once it is made?

  

  Walter Murch
  • People
  • Real
  • Friends

• Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • People
  • World
  • Done

• I simply told people what I thought about the state of the war in Vietnam, and it was that we better get out of this.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • People
  • War
  • Thought

• You can be covered and be very sexy. It's not what you show; it's what you have in mind, the way you cross your legs, the way you talk to people.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Mind
  • Sexy

• When I'm making the music, I feel like everything I throw out has to work. It counts. Because if you don't have people turning they neck all the way around to see what it is, it ain't stick on the wall.

  

  Raekwon
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • People
  • Women
  • True

• I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • People
  • Time
  • Basketball

• Whenever you're successful you owe that success to the people in the community, because they are the ones buying your product.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • People
  • Success
  • Community

• Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.

  

  George McGovern

• Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the clothes I've worn on tour, in videos and on album covers.

  

  R. Kelly
  • House
  • Childhood
  • Clothes

• I want to be very authentic when I perform, because I feel like I owe that to people listening. You can't go through the motions on music like this. You are making people feel a certain way, that you are not feeling yourself. It's like saying "I want you guys to cry, but I don't really care," which isn't right.

  

  William Fitzsimmons
  • People
  • Listening
  • Feelings