People Quotes

• People have this idea that if you're not brilliant like Einstein, you can't be a scientist. And that's just a myth. He was the one out of a million scientists, but there were 999,999 other scientists who were not as brilliant but who just do great science, as well.

  

  Heidi Hammel
  • Idea
  • Scientist
  • Einstein

• We've gotta restore the American people's confidence in the ethics process by ensuring that political self-interest can no longer prevent politicians from enforcing ethics rules.

  

  Barack Obama
  • American
  • Political
  • Confidence

• It used to be that whenever I introduced myself to people and told them I was a psychologist, they would shrink away from me. Because, quite rightly, the impression the American public has of psychologists is, 'You want to know what's wrong with me.'

  

  Martin Seligman
  • People
  • American

• I like to play around with people who don't know me. Often I'm talking to people through my speaker phone, and after 10 minutes or so they say, 'Wait a minute, Marlee, how can you hear me?' They forget I have an interpreter there who is signing to me as they talk. So I say, 'You know what? I can hear on Wednesdays.'

  

  Marlee Matlin
  • People

• As for the fact that Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle apeared to be going their different ways when they were usually inseparable, these things happened as people got older--Ron and Hermione, Harry reflected sadly, were living proof.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Different
  • Way

• What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.

  

  Doris Lessing
  • Society
  • Past
  • Respect

• When you call people we you find it easy to be unfair to them, since you yourself are included in the condemnation.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • People

• You have to fight for the soul of your people, you have to fight for the souls of millions of people on both sides, to overcome the legacy of this struggle [between Palestine and Israel] and create a readiness for peace.

  

  Uri Avnery
  • Soul
  • Peace
  • Fighting

• The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'

  

  Daniel J. Boorstin
  • Experience
  • Interesting
  • Search

• The Bible says, 'Where there is no vision, the people perish.' Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Action
  • Alone
  • Vision

• While the American people have had a big heart, President Trump has had a big mouth, and he has used it to insult the people of Puerto Rico.

  

  Carmen Yulin Cruz
  • Heart
  • American
  • Trump

• Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians.

  

  Edward T. Hall
  • Done
  • Theatre
  • Company

• My brother and I have a profound nostalgia for our youth, and I think people need to come to terms with things leaving and being gone.

  

  Cole Sprouse
  • Brother
  • Leaving
  • Profound

• The medical argument for animal testing doesn't stand up. Even if it did, I don't think we should kill other species. We think we're so much better; I'm not sure we are. I tell people, We've beaten into submission every animal on the face of the Earth, so we are the clear winners of whatever battle is going on between the species. Couldn't we be generous? I really do think it's time to get nice. No need to keep beating up on them. I think we've got to show that we're kind.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I can't stand Paris. I hate the place. Full of people talking French, which is a thing I bar. It always seems to me so affected.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • People
  • Hate
  • Paris

• When I'm writing a new play, there's a period where I know I shouldn't be out in public much. I imagine most people who create go through something like this. You willfully loosen some of the inner straps that hold your core together.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Writing
  • Together
  • Period

• Right up until the late 18th century, when the first weighted lines were used to probe the ocean depths, many people believed the seas were bottomless - the watery equivalent of infinite outer space.

  

  Alan Huffman
  • Up
  • Space
  • Ocean

• The idea is not to please the most amount of people. Growing up in Versailles, the idea was to please the least amount of people.

  

  Thomas Pablo Croquet Phoenix
  • People
  • Idea
  • Growing Up

• Rising health care costs make it impossible to plan for the future, and that means it's impossible to hire more people.

  

  Brett Guthrie
  • People
  • Future
  • Health

• There have been two periods in my lifetime when the excitement of government and of public issues drew to Washington many of the bright young people graduating from colleges and law schools. These were essentially the Roosevelt and the Kennedy years.

  

  Katharine Graham
  • People
  • Law

• I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people's pleasure. It's an adventure.

  

  Emily Blunt
  • Up
  • Relationship
  • Adventure

• I want to reach out and entertain people. I want people to come to a museum that have never been in a museum before. I want also to have enough art references in it that would satisfy the most sophisticated museum goer.

  

  Wayne White
  • People
  • Museum
  • Entertain

• The holidays are also a time when people freak out about their finances. If you don't want to spend the money, why not try some of the other options instead of killing a bunch of animals?

  

  Christina Applegate
  • Time
  • Money
  • Why

• I like to style myself and aim to wear the coolest of clothes that I can lay my hands on! It's my conscious effort to look different and dress up funky. I feel elated that people notice the crazy things I do.

  

  Nia Sharma
  • Up
  • Different
  • Crazy

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