People Quotes

• I think that the church has to develop its own agenda, and not allow itself to be consumed by either party to the chagrin of the people that we seek to serve.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Thinking
  • Party
  • Church

• We see healthcare shifting from a procedure reimbursement, where in this country doctors are reimbursed for how many procedures they conduct, to a world where people will be reimbursed for the outcomes - did the patient actually get better, and what was the total cost of the cycle of care.

  

  John Sculley
  • World
  • Country
  • Health care

• What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.

  

  Pete Townshend The Who
  • Music
  • Character
  • Father

• The real problem in Mississippi is almost a complete moral breakdown. In order to move Mississippi from the bottom to the top, all we have to do is just get people to do a little more what they know, to practice a little more of what they preach.

  

  James Meredith
  • Real
  • Practice
  • Moral

• I'm always very proud when people ask me about being a Canadian.

  

  David Furnish
  • People
  • Proud

• I grew up in Baltimore and that's why I root for the Orioles. I'm very suspicious of people who move and take on a new team. You should stick with the team of your youth all the way to your grave. That shows a sense of loyalty and devotion.

  

  Frank Deford
  • Up
  • Why
  • Team

• Even in the things that look most frivolous there has to be the threat of something quite painful to make the comedy work. I suppose the play of mine that's best know is NOISES OFF, which everyone thinks is a simple farce about actors making fools of themselves. But I think it makes people laugh because everyone is terrified inside themselves of having some kind of breakdown, of being unable to go on. When people laugh at that play, they're laughing at a surrogate version of the disaster which might occur to them.

  

  Michael Frayn
  • Comedy
  • Best
  • Things

• I'm aware that people see me as a sex symbol. But I know I can act.

  

  Diora Baird
  • People
  • Sex

• White Americans have the option of not having to think about race on a daily basis. People of color don't. Race is a major deciding factor in their lives and the histories of their families.

  

  Jess Row
  • Color
  • Daily
  • Option

• It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.

  

  Bill Watterson
  • People
  • Up
  • Cool

• Honestly, I am hoping to influence young people, and Twitter's a great way to encourage them to lend their voice to the conversation. Any time you can show young people that you support gay friends and that there are gay people in the world who are lovely, happy, singing, and in love, it opens their minds.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• And we are a people without tears. The things that moved our parents do not move us at all.

  

  Natalia Ginzburg
  • People
  • Tears
  • Without

• There are moments in history that people should be reminded of.

  

  James Sanborn
  • People
  • History
  • Moments

• A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can't wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you're a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Up
  • Shut Up
  • Moron

• I'm in a no-win situation. If I have my kids in the show, I'm exploiting them. If I don't, people will think I'm not a hands-on mom.

  

  Denise Richards
  • People
  • Kids
  • Mom

• They are so pleased to find out other people's secrets. It distracts public attention from their own.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Attention
  • Secret
  • Public

• A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another, and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • People
  • Education
  • Government

• People were endlessly trying to set me up with 'eligible' men, and I enjoyed going on a galaxy of dates.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • Up
  • Men
  • Trying

• I just think the more we're observed by other people, the less we can observe them in order to play them and find their true condition.

  

  Logan Marshall-Green
  • People
  • True

• People all the time say to me, 'You look just like Don Lemon,' and I would go, 'I hear that all the time! 'And after a moment, I would go, 'I am Don Lemon!'

  

  Don Lemon
  • People
  • Time

• Creating a positive future begins in human conversation. The simplest and most powerful investment any member of a community or an organisation can make is to begin with other people as though the answers mattered.

  

  William Greider
  • Community
  • Powerful
  • Investment

• The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.

  

  Chanakya
  • Small
  • Sleep
  • Dog

• The problem with the whole issue is that both sides need to be accommodated. There does need to be better border security for national security purposes, but in my view you cannot have better border security until you deal with the problem of finding a way for people to immigrate legally. People are not crossing the border risking life and limb to do so because they're too lazy to go down to the visa office and apply legally.

  

  Linda Chavez
  • Life
  • Problem
  • Security

• Oh, all stories are the same, aren't they? Men and women fall in love or out of love. People are born; people die. It al ends happily or it all ends sadly, and the difference matters only to the people involved.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Die

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