People Quotes
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.
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We are working to understand the tastes of people born in the 1980s and 1990s - it is very different from my generation. We do our own research. Marketing research companies, I think, are relatively academic.
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When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.
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I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.
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Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do - but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.
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I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
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Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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I understand that we cannot make other people happy when they are unhappy.
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Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.
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People have to take responsibility for themselves. We need to get the housing industry going again. We don't need government intervening in every step.
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I hated the brutality, the sadism, and the insanity of Nazism. I just couldn't stand by and see people destroyed. I did what I could, what I had to do, what my conscience told me I must do. That's all there is to it. Really, nothing more.
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I wish I could balance life as an artist and a mother, but sometimes when I am doing live concerts, I have to ask people to help me in my other role.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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You sometimes get the feeling that people think getting back together after a hiatus to write and record a record is work, you know, arduous and unpleasant. Being able to write and record - that's a privilege. I don't forget the long days I spent working in a restaurant, when I wanted to be done so I could go home and work on a song.
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People are mean on social media, whoever you are. It's a shame people have to be that way.
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In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.
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I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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I have no problem with nudity. I can look at myself. I like walking around nude. It doesn't bother me. I see all the people walking around nude; it doesn't bother me.
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It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think just as importantly we prepare people for the definition of being gentle.
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For me, I like old-school rap music. There was a time when music was so, so rich overall, and the content of what people talked about was so deep on every level, song-for-song, pound-for-pound, and on radio, there was so much content. I gravitate more towards that type of music, to be honest.
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I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.
