People Quotes
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I've been given this amazing platform as an Olympic athlete, and there are so many people out there who don't feel like their voice is being heard. I feel it's my responsibility to speak out on issues that are important.
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What it comes down to is I don't mind if Superman kills people because he has no reason not to kill people. I know that one of the tenets of the character is that he doesn't, but the reason that he doesn't is because having that much power makes you responsible for weaker people.
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People always try to be perfect. That's why they don't start anything. Perfection is the lowest standard in the world. Because if you're trying to be perfect, you know you can't be. So what you really have is a standard you can never achieve. You want to be outstanding, not perfect.
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I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.
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Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.
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People have not given children enough credit to understand the idea of death. But I really think they do.
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With any sort of entertainment, you hope people are entertained.
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The wisdom of the crowds has peaked. Web 3.0 is taking what we've built in Web 2.0 - the wisdom of the crowds - and putting an editorial layer on it of truly talented, compensated people to make the product more trusted and refined.
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My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.
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Web sites are designed to keep young people from using the keyboard, except to enter in their parents' credit card information.
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If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious "bad man" is the worst of all.
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To be honest, you go to a bat mitzvah in Los Angeles, and you can count on at least a few industry people to be there.
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Money isn't always going to make it happen. It's important to be around people that have the right kind of attitude, being happy about what you're doing.
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The number was stronger than what people were looking for on the non-manufacturing NAPM. It is going to make it really hard for the Fed to keep talking that the economy is fragile.
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I think it's alarming that people believe that success enables one to forget how life felt before. As if one could simply exchange one's values.
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Keep in mind that, when I came in, we had had a crisis that was the worst we've seen since the 1930s, and working with people like Chancellor Merkel, working with the G-20 and other institutions internationally, we were able to stabilize the financial system, stabilize the US economy and return to growth.
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I like it when I see people dressed on the street, and it looks like Gucci, but it's not. It means you are doing something right.
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98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying.
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People don't grow up to become thrill junkies - they're born like that.
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Really, my sacred place is my study where there are books that I love and things that people have given me.
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Unfortunately, some people go to a restaurant, and they aren't really there to enjoy themselves. They're there because they think they deserve to be there or because they can just afford it.
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I always want my standup act to appeal to everybody in the room, and when I started standup, and I would see people talk about their kids and their wife, and I'd always cringe a little bit, like, 'I can't get a date, I don't know what you're talking about.'
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On my show I share all these yummy, fattening recipes, but I tell people, in moderation, in moderation. You can have that little piece of pie.
