People Quotes
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If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.
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I am part of a legacy of queer black women who have fought for the freedom of black people across the globe.
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There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.
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The people who relate to Playboy, both readers and people who produce it, are not the way the critics think they are.
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You're the average of the five people you spend your time with.
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As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you don't want it.
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First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas.
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I could name you a dozen superheroes whose powers I'd like to have. But if I could have any power in the world, it would be the power to read or watch a creative work and absorb the technical skill of the people who made it. Because then I could have even more fun writing. That's my core identity. I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.
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A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.
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I think #OscarsSoWhite is about there not truly being enough people of color represented.
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People who like my stuff and know what my agenda is have never mistaken me for being racist or poking fun at the wrong thing.
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I think that the presidency really brings out the best in a lot of people.
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My whole thing as a performer is to affect people, whether I make you cry or I make you laugh. I would love to make you think.
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I don't believe in aliens. I don't think aliens or ghosts like black people. We never get abducted; our houses never get haunted. It always happens in rural areas, where no ethnic people live. The day I see somebody from South Central Los Angeles say, 'Man, I got abducted yesterday,' then I'll believe it.
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I had a whistle-stop tour of Havana in a horse and carriage and couldn't stop taking photographs of the decaying yet enchanting buildings and people.
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When you start dating another country star, the first question is, 'When are y'all gonna do a duet?' And what sucks about that is people expect you to do it whether you want to or not.
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I have a real kind of fundamental philosophical belief that movies are better if everyone gets paid when they work, and if they don't work, the people who worked on them make a little bit of money, and the people who finance them, they lose, but they don't lose too much. I believe that that creates better work.
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The word 'happiness' always bothered me, partly because it was scientifically unwieldy and meant a lot of different things to different people, and also because it's subjective.
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I always wanted to be a part of a New York-based label, so I've worked really hard to try and network with people that I felt would put me in the right place.
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I love seeing what people are eating. It's a great way of looking at what is similar and what is different about people. It's sociology and anthropology and history rolled into one.
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We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.
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A simple job for simple people.
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I've always thought that one of the least successful encounters is meeting a writer one admires. For one thing, writers are generally much kinder, more empathetic, more generous people on the page than they are in person.
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People want you to produce records. They don't care what it took to make it. When a band is out doing concerts, the fans don't want to know about equipment difficulties. They want their hour-and-a-half release, and that's it.
