People Quotes

• Making your own records is really satisfying in the sense that you more or less get to do what you want. It may not sell or whatever, but on an artistic level, the only people that you really have to fight with are the people in your own band.

  

  Adam Schlesinger
  • People
  • May
  • Band

• Herman Cain said he wants people to know that there's more between his ears than pepperoni and pizza sauce. He says there's also a few napkins and crazy bread.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Crazy
  • Pizza
  • Herman Cain

• If people don't feel they've got your attention, you're not going to succeed.

  

  Ben Elliot
  • People
  • Attention

• To be a good musician, you need to give people what they want, what they need.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • People
  • Good

• People are always asking me to sign my old canvases. It's ridiculous!

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • People
  • Asking
  • Canvases

• If I'm a bank, and I'm making risky loans, I have an incentive, if I can, to make those loans using other people's money: in other words, to make highly leveraged loans.

  

  Eric Maskin
  • People
  • Money
  • Words

• When we started Aftermath, we had something like 20 artists, and it was driving me crazy. I couldn't sit down and focus on any of it. Plus, it was doubly hard because you ended up crushing these people's dreams when you had to let them go.

  

  Dr. Dre
  • Up
  • Crazy
  • Focus

• The only thing I fear is when people say, 'I should go to the theatre more.' I say, 'We should create work that makes you not have a choice.'

  

  John Tiffany
  • Work
  • Fear
  • Theatre

• Mysticism is in fact the only criticism people cannot level against my theory.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Criticism
  • Theory
  • Against

• I often find myself writing about people taking care of each other, or trying to.

  

  Kenneth Lonergan
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• I am President of the UN created University for Peace, which has a strong commitment to the relationship between peace, security and the environment. I meet with young people around the world and I always come away enthused and encouraged.

  

  Maurice Strong
  • World
  • Strong
  • Peace

• People could see by your actions on the park that you cared about it. If we got beat, I'd fling the Sunday papers in the bin and wouldn't read them.

  

  Drew Busby
  • People
  • Sunday

• There is an interesting point about the price of success: It must always be paid in full-and in advance. Everyone wants to be successful. Everyone wants to be healthy, happy, thin, and rich. But most people are not willing to pay the price.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Happy
  • Success
  • Interesting

• Who knows - I would like to think that I'd be a fantastic president, and I'd be extremely levelheaded, and I'd be very fair, and I wouldn't persecute people, and I'd listen to the people that disagreed with me and all the rest of it, but who knows.

  

  Adam Rayner
  • People
  • Rest

• I get emotional when young people get nostalgic about my work. That's why it's called nostalgia. Sometimes I even cry.

  

  Mithun Chakraborty
  • Sometimes
  • Emotional
  • Nostalgia

• Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Done
  • Fear
  • Failure

• We worry so much about what people think of us and so we often don't stand up for what we believe in. And some people literally give their life for what they believe in. As a Christian, that is something I really admire. I want to be a part of spreading that message.

  

  Sadie Robertson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Believe

• The show with Buckley and Vidal was happening live. There was no editing. There was no delay. So they were aghast. How America reacted is sort of the most interesting thing because as these debates progressed, the ratings were going up. So people began to program these sort of point-counterpoint setups, where two people with opposite sides would come on.

  

  Morgan Neville
  • America
  • Interesting
  • Program

• We live in such a service-based, globalised economy where very few people actually make anything and the people who do make stuff... it's all part of a massive global supply chain. So what if all those chains were suddenly cut, how would you make something? How would you keep people alive? And that was something I wanted to explore.

  

  Max Brooks
  • Live
  • Service
  • Explore

• We love what we love, and shared fandoms bring people of all ages and backgrounds into one great tribe.

  

  Margaret Stohl
  • People
  • Great

• I would say I'm a humanist. I like that. I mean, I don't claim to know anything, but I'm curious about it all. I'm always fascinated when people really fervently believe, because I have such a hard time believing anything.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Believe
  • Mean
  • Curious

• If you outlaw half a million people you make martyrs of them. For example, if you outlaw Robin Hood, it is all very well, but if you outlaw a whole group of people around Robin Hood, then Robin Hood and his merry men become legends.

  

  Baldur von Schirach
  • Men
  • Hood
  • Robins

• Young people, take heart: the older you get, the fewer commandments you will have the strength to break.

  

  Mark Russell
  • Break
  • Commandments
  • Fewer

• I always recommend, if you can, to patent or protect whatever your idea is. If you can't, you have to make your best judgment. Sometimes people don't get anywhere because they sit on something, so afraid to reveal it. And yet, in the reverse, sometimes if you expose something too widely, you can risk losing it.

  

  Lori Greiner
  • People
  • Risk

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