People Quotes

• Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • War
  • Natural
  • Disaster

• We thought a lot of the heavy metal stuff was ridiculous. And we still do. We didn't want to be Duran Duran either, so we were somewhere in the middle. We always felt a little bit different because we were never really part of any movement. People said what we were doing wasn't pure rock and stuff like that. Then we said, yeah, but what we did was better than pure rock.

  

  Phil Collen Def Leppard
  • Rock
  • Movement
  • Heavy-Metal

• You've got very powerful, very intelligent and very imaginative people on both sides.

  

  Felix Rohatyn
  • Powerful
  • Intelligent
  • Imaginative

• I don't think people were betting on me, but they were giving me a chance. I think I rode a wave there, by being different in appearance than the girls who preceded me.

  

  Elisabeth Rohm
  • People
  • Different
  • Giving

• When you take things too seriously, you get old. You have to be silly. Whenever people say, 'Hey, man, are you ever going to grow up?' That's when you know you're doing things right.

  

  Ricky Martin
  • People
  • Up
  • Silly

• The '80s were a really different time for kids. Technology has changed so much of how we stay in touch and keep tabs on people. Back then, as a kid, you could really just do whatever you wanted until your parents got home.

  

  Cliff Chiang
  • Time
  • Different
  • Home

• Each cast member brings their own vibe and antics to the set. You're constantly surrounded by fun loving people who can make you laugh in their own way.

  

  John Krasinski
  • People
  • Fun

• Whatever content you create, let it revolve around your interests. You shouldn't create things just because you think other people want to watch it.

  

  Connor Franta
  • People

• Nog was proud to be a Ferengi, but that didn’t mean he was proud of everything the Ferengi people had ever done, and that definitely included plenty of his relatives.

  

  S. D. Perry
  • People
  • Proud
  • Relatives

• In Western capitalism circa 2013, fear that the market economy has become dysfunctional is not limited to a few entrepreneurs in Boulder. It is being publicly expressed, with increasing frequency, by some of the people who occupy the commanding heights of the global economy.

  

  Chrystia Freeland
  • People
  • Fear

• I was doing publicity for 'The Getaway'; people were coming in from all over the world to do six-minute interviews.

  

  Kim Basinger
  • People
  • World

• Unless we have a well-educated people, we're vulnerable on our national security.

  

  Mark Hatfield
  • People

• Free speech is one of our fundamental principles and it's pretty hard to speak freely when people are yelling at you when it's your turn. That would never be allowed in a classroom or in any other kind of meeting.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Pretty
  • Free
  • Speech

• I would prefer a public option that would be a competitive option that would allow people to buy into a Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, which is a series of private plans.

  

  Amy Klobuchar
  • People
  • Health
  • Option

• It sounds like the Boy Scouts want it both ways. They want to be private and do what they want, and they don't want to follow the government and society in not discriminating against people - and they want the government's money.

  

  Larry Taylor Canned Heat
  • Government
  • Boy
  • Follow

• People crave comfort, people crave connection, people crave community.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Community
  • Connection
  • Comfort

• I will not talk about people a thousand miles off, but come as near home as I can. As the time is short, I will leave out all the flattery, and retain all the criticism. Let us consider the way in which we spend our lives.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Time
  • Home
  • Criticism

• We were over in Europe all the time their posters were up. That's why I liked them. So now all of a sudden they're going to get a band hat on, and say people aren't acting the right way?

  

  Kim Deal The Breeders
  • Up
  • Time
  • Why

• I understand, as the young, attractive woman in film, that there's always going to be people seeking out extra salacious things for you to do.

  

  Katharine Isabelle
  • People

• The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have great universities. We have entrepreneurs.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • World
  • Great
  • American

• People I meet today, especially journalists who interview me, are astonished to hear that Lenin told me, in effect, that Communism was not working and that the Revolution needed American capital and technical aid.

  

  Armand Hammer
  • American
  • Today
  • Revolution

• People say things about me all the time and I get over it. I've had some appalling things told about me.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • People
  • Appalling

• I've skewered whites, blacks, Hispanics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, gays, straights, rednecks, addicts, the elderly, and my wife. As a standup comic, it is my job to make sure the majority of people laugh, and I believe that comedy is the last true form of free speech.

  

  Jeff Dunham
  • Believe
  • Job
  • True

• There is nobody who would want, in any way, to lose what Paul Volcker won for the American people by fighting inflation and achieving price stability.

  

  Charles L. Evans
  • People
  • American
  • Fighting

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