People Quotes

• I think probably the moments of failure have been when I didn't really understand that other people were around to actually help me. There were moments when I thought I had to solve everything on my own, and I didn't realize that I had resources.

  

  Joanna Coles
  • Help
  • Moments
  • Failure

• Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: 'Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?' If you don't ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

  

  Pope Francis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Service

• I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Remember
  • Words
  • Funny

• What if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment.

  

  Chris Evans
  • Life
  • Business
  • Peace

• A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Good
  • Art
  • May

• It's really funny because the same people who loved me as Stringer Bell were the same people that were watching 'Daddy's Little Girls' literally in tears.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Funny
  • Tears
  • Same

• Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Feel
  • Contact
  • Miss

• My appearance still made people laugh, with that hearty jovial laugh so good for the health.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • People
  • Good
  • Health

• You have giant Facebook, which wants people to be more engaged, and they also want to grow and trade different things, including content.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Different
  • Want
  • Grow

• I enjoy acting, and I appreciate people who have passion about what they're doing and have a vision about the film they're trying to make.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Trying
  • Passion
  • Vision

• Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Great
  • Think
  • Interesting

• I would say that I'm more than just a teeny-bopper artist... that my music can appeal to people of all ages.

  

  Drake Bell
  • People
  • Music

• It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Poverty
  • Issues
  • Democrat

• The big businesses are less willing to take risks. I talked to some young people in Hong Kong, and they said they are lost. Young people indeed have fewer opportunities than before. But is it true that there are no more opportunities for them? No!

  

  Jack Ma
  • True
  • Lost
  • Opportunities

• People are fond of that 'crabs in a barrel' mentality, and I'm like, 'No, there needs to be more so we can create more barrels; there doesn't need to be one barrel.'

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • People
  • Need
  • Create

• People assume that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Great
  • Dance
  • Athlete

• Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Man
  • Allah

• Every international meeting or championship I do, I can cope a lot better because I can say I did the 100 m. hurdles, opened up the athletics at an Olympic Games in front of a home crowd, 80,000 people.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
  • Home
  • Better

• A lot of times, when you're the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that's it, and people don't get a sense of who you truly are.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • People
  • You
  • Lady

• I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • People
  • Passionate
  • Surrounded

• The thought of playing a New York detective scared the hell out of me. I didn't know if people would believe me in the role just because of my physicality, which made me want to do it even more.

  

  Charlotte Ross
  • People
  • Believe

• I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • People
  • Trying
  • Kind

• When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • Purpose
  • Visit

• A part of me was like, 'Man, do I even like doing this anymore?' That whole thing of 'I'm in my 30s, and I sing and write songs while people are fighting wars in Iraq.' You know? So everything had to have more meaning, and it couldn't just be about making money. So, I took a minute.

  

  Gerald Maxwell Rivera
  • People
  • Money
  • Fighting

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