People Quotes

• People will tell you that writing is too difficult, that it's impossible to get your work published, that you might as well hang yourself. Meanwhile, they'll keep writing and you'll have hanged yourself.

  

  John Gardner
  • Writing
  • Difficult
  • Impossible

• Wherever you repress people, they get hold of a crayon and a bit of scrap paper, and they chronicle their lives and their existence and their history.

  

  Michael Horse
  • History
  • Chronicle
  • Scrap paper

• The people, as much as it's fun to hate us, they need us. They need good, strong, skeptical journalists to be covering whoever it is - whether it's Barack Obama or President Donald Trump.

  

  Megyn Kelly
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Strong

• Policy makers, like most people, normally feel that they already know all the psychology and all the sociology they are likely to need for their decisions. I don't think they are right, but that's the way it is.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
  • People
  • Psychology

• Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Slave
  • Labor
  • Patriotism

• I can't hang around with lots of people these days because I am hypersensitive. So when I am around a lot of people or a big roomful of people I get almost autistic. I get overwhelmed and really tired. So I don't like being around large groups.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Tired
  • Groups
  • Overwhelmed

• I think that there should be a Gaius Baltar Award for Moral Cowardice given out to people every year.

  

  James Callis
  • People
  • Moral

• Songwriters tend to make records instead of talking to people.

  

  Sharleen Spiteri Texas
  • People
  • Records
  • Songwriters

• Some people criticize me for using sources that are a bit low brow (this quote is from 'Gladiator') but you know what? 'I'm just going to use that hostility to make me stronger, not weaker' as Kelly Rowland said on the X Factor.

  

  Banksy
  • Use
  • Stronger
  • Gladiator

• We actually have been toying around with a theatrical element. We even had outfits that we wore on stage for the last tour. But I think when people come to see us they ultimately expect a rock show, so we're pulling back on that aspect a bit. We do play in front of a backdrop, though.

  

  Colin Meloy
  • Expect
  • Theatrical
  • Toying

• I have gained a lot of perspective from the places I have traveled too and the people I have been fortunate enough to meet.

  

  Danny O'Donoghue The Script
  • People
  • Meet
  • Fortunate

• Trees always remind me of Aboriginal people.

  

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  • People
  • Trees
  • Remind

• Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Children
  • Age
  • Opportunity

• Certain people are not going to connect with a book about the effect a dog has on a family. But every one of us has parents and has either said goodbye to those parents or knows that someday they will.

  

  John Grogan
  • Family
  • Book
  • Parents

• The royal duty of non-opposition is a reminder that the legitimacy of government is founded on the consent of the people, who may withdraw their mandate at any time if they lose confidence in the ability of the ruler to serve their best interests.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Time
  • May
  • Confidence

• Everything is not black-and-white . I'm really interested in the gray area - not justifying it, not glorifying it, not condoning it, but at least having people see there's a genesis for every event in our lives. There's some divine order to it, whether it's ugly or beautiful.

  

  Isaiah Washington
  • Beautiful
  • Ugly
  • Events

• Human beings, from their own point of view, are very different than what people see.

  

  Kurt Russell
  • People
  • Different

• Crank-calling people is the oldest bit in the world.

  

  Elvis Duran
  • People
  • World

• There's no need to wait for the bad things and bullshit to be over. Change now. Love now. Live now. Don't wait for people to give you permission to live, because they won't. That permission is your birthright, hot stuff; grab it!

  

  Kris Carr
  • People
  • Live
  • Bad

• You see. I don't think any new thoughts. I think thoughts that other people have thought, and I rearrange them. But Sara, she thinks thoughts that never were before.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • People
  • She
  • Thoughts

• All my life I made a living out of hurting people. Now, I make a living out of making people laugh.

  

  Jake LaMotta
  • People
  • Life

• I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Me
  • Focus
  • Expect

• But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people.

  

  Andrea Martin
  • People
  • Country
  • Family

• I never eat at home. Dinner is my time to be social and catch up with people.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Up
  • Time
  • Home

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