People Quotes

• I can get away with anything. But when I try to be sincere, people just roll their eyes.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Eyes
  • I Can

• The more you're writing absolutely honestly, and absolutely bare of intention - even if it feels absolutely personal and small because it's at your own scale - other people relate to it much more.

  

  Lou Doillon
  • People
  • Writing
  • Small

• Unfortunately, we force people to break the law in order to get any kind of mental health treatment.

  

  Pete Earley
  • People
  • Law
  • Health

• Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.

  

  David Baldacci
  • People
  • Believe
  • Justice

• Every time I get a bit worried about having made some second rate choices in life I go back and read about the Suffragettes or William Wilberforce, people who were 'wrong' in their own time, and think, 'Ah well.'

  

  Bob Brown
  • Life
  • Time
  • Choices

• Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour.

  

  Marvin Harris
  • Different
  • Food
  • Wonder

• You know, there's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers and performers out there who sing other people's words. I enjoy doing both.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Great
  • Song
  • Words

• When I was first on 'Dancing With The Stars', people were really shocked and surprised.

  

  Jerry Springer
  • People

• Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.

  

  Frederick Soddy
  • Men
  • Science
  • Ignorance

• We wanted to interview people on the show, do variety, get the artists, the guests involved with us in our group. They wanted to keep the four guys together. We wanted to change the format.

  

  Davy Jones The Monkees
  • People
  • Together

• When you're someone in the media, the good thing is, I guess, that you can reach a lot of people.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • People
  • Good
  • Reach

• We want people to understand that we have to look at maintenance costs and staffing in decisions on design elements for the pool.

  

  Doug Jackson Ambrosia
  • Design
  • Decisions
  • Elements

• Young children seem to be learning who to share this toy with and figure out how it works, while adolescents seem to be exploring some very deep and profound questions: 'How should this society work? How should relationships among people work?' The exploration is: 'Who am I, what am I doing?'

  

  Alison Gopnik
  • Work
  • Children
  • Society

• People want to be Christians too cheaply, and consequently they are not Christians at all. Salvation has to cost, it has to cost everything, at least as far as the disposition of the heart is concerned.

  

  Pasquier Quesnel
  • People
  • Heart

• Blameless people are always the most exasperating.

  

  George Eliot
  • People
  • Blameless
  • Exasperating

• I feel very creatively satisfied and lucky that I get to write for other people, but for something I direct, it has to be something I completely understand every facet of.

  

  Nicholas Stoller
  • Writing
  • Feels
  • Lucky

• What I'm trying to do is help people understand if for one day they could have the best day ever, where there energy and there focus and everything is super clear and they feel like a great golden god... if you do that one time you know you're capable of it and you can start working towards that. Most people I know have felt like crap without knowing it most of their life. They've never had a wonderful day. Once you have that day, you can learn how to kick more ass repeatedly.

  

  Dave Asprey
  • Trying
  • Focus
  • Helping

• 'I had hoped, as a broadcaster, to be merely ludicrous, but this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought , so eager to believe and snarl and hate. So many people wanted to believe me!'

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • World
  • Believe
  • Hate

• When you make a movie, it's just so personal and then you put it out in front of people and it becomes something else.

  

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson
  • People
  • Movie

• I often wonder why people remake movies. Is there just a lack of imagination out there that they can't come up with an original idea?

  

  Michael Beck Die Fantastischen Vier
  • Imagination
  • Idea
  • Movies

• The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

  

  Marcel Pagnol
  • Happy
  • Future
  • Past

• Everybody's got a story on their beards. I guess it's just a way of finding common ground with people you otherwise might not know.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • People

• There are different people who got me into music, but what I liked about Beethoven is that even when I didn't understand it or it was too long, there's still something about it that drove me to it. Then it got me excited about actually learning music, like a theory of it.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • Music
  • Different
  • Long

• So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important. It's the difference between success and failure.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Time
  • Important
  • Success

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