People Quotes

• 'Strong Island' has been a labor of love and dedication on the part of so many people, that it's just an incredible recognition to be honored. And to be the first trans director - and, I believe, the first African-American trans director - to be nominated for an Academy Award is incredibly, incredibly special to me.

  

  Yance Ford
  • Believe
  • American
  • Strong

• So many people are insanely busy nowadays, and it's easy to say, 'Ah, I'll workout tomorrow.' But you have to set aside a time and stick to that schedule.

  

  Derek Jeter
  • People
  • Time
  • Workout

• The model today is that as much as 70 percent of the financing of the picture would come from overseas. Now we're beginning to run out of suckers, because there are not that many people overseas who are willing to put up more than half the money for a movie.

  

  Peter Bart
  • Up
  • Money
  • Movie

• I want people to get over my weight and the loss of it. It's been years, and I am sure people can find better things to talk about.

  

  Adnan Sami
  • People

• I only socialise with people that I have a lot in common with.

  

  Jenny Eclair
  • People

• I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don't. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • People
  • Famous
  • Everyday

• The fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological point of view, but it does not in any way imply that there is such a thing as religious knowledge...Unless he can formulate this 'knowledge' in propositions that are empirically verifiable, we may be sure that he is deceiving himself.

  

  Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer
  • May
  • Interesting
  • Knowledge

• It turns out that it's easier to do politics in a movie. People really don't want it in their TV.

  

  Doug Liman
  • People
  • Movie

• The majority of people know me as a dancer, but they don't also know that I'm a director, a songwriter and a producer.

  

  Cris Judd
  • People

• I think there's a lot of taboos in hip-hop that people try and stay away from. I think a big one is, people are afraid to speak about God to a certain extent, and I think if you're not free to speak about God, then you're not free.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • People
  • God
  • Free

• Partying is not a sane way to spend money, but it's fun. When we were young, we did not have a lot of money at all, so I thought, 'If I ever get rich, I'm not going to become one of those boring rich people who doesn't spend money.'

  

  Markus Persson
  • People
  • Money
  • Fun

• I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.

  

  Bill Murray
  • People
  • World
  • Reading

• I like to be around people, so I ended up being roommates, right? I had a house. I lived with four guys.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • People
  • Up
  • House

• People want real changes, and they understand that we have to change the system.

  

  Birgitta Jonsdottir
  • People
  • System
  • Real Changes

• I don't want to look at myself like I'm some superhero. But I'm not going to let people wipe their feet on football on my chest.

  

  Jon Gruden
  • People
  • Football
  • Superhero

• If I'm in a room full of intense people, I'm pretty normal. If I'm in a room full of people who aren't, maybe I'm intense.

  

  Ken Leung
  • People
  • Pretty

• ... certain people, such as shamans, witch doctors, practitioners of Eastern religions, New Age gurus or professors of the occult on university faculties are examples of the kind of people who may have much more extensive knowledge of the spirit world than most Christians have.

  

  C. Wagner
  • World
  • May
  • Age

• This satire business, that was one of the worst things that ever happened to me. I was certified funny. From then on, I had to be funny - people expected it. Twice the work for the same pay.

  

  Ray Guy
  • Things
  • Happened
  • Certified

• If you're passionate, be passionate enough to fail. Fail small, accept responsibility, repeat. The people who make change are the survivors of serial failure.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Responsibility
  • Enough
  • Failing

• There's a high point in your career, and then people get bored; they want something else to come along.

  

  Peter Temple
  • High
  • Career
  • Bored

• Jail is much easier on people who have nothing.

  

  Bernhard Goetz
  • People

• I like it when people talk s**t. Because if people weren't talking s**t, there would be nothing for me to come back with. I need that. If I don't have any ammo, what am I going to say?

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • People
  • Needs
  • Ammo

• Some people just seem like they are up to no good. Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict, and you couldn't do well there unless you studied very hard, but every time there was any trouble, I was the first person they would be talking to.

  

  Elizabeth Wurtzel
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• If I am something of a social leveller, it is not because I want to give silly people a good time, but because I want to make opportunity universal, and not leave out one single being who is worth while.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Time
  • Good
  • Opportunity

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