People Quotes
-
I feel like my calling is to show people joy: to make them feel like there's something to look forward to.
-
I do think that people ought to have some control over their money, rather than the government, just mandating to them how they're going to invest their money.
-
Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria each caused billions of dollars in damage, claimed the lives of many Americans, and disrupted millions more. They also reminded us how important communications networks can be during emergencies - and that the FCC has a role to play in helping keep people safe.
-
I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.
-
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
-
It's funny, I never considered that people are going to see me on the show and maybe stop me on the subway.
-
People look down on it, but I love the community of horror. Writers and directors are a tight group of people, and we help and support each other.
-
It's fun to play people who are flawed.
-
Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
-
I feel like there's this need that the Asian-American community has to feel like people. It's something that Asians in Asia do not understand about us.
-
I don't know what the strategy will be in Washington. The reality is, is, I have got to go down there, as my mentor, as people like Bill Bradley have told me to do, get to know your colleagues on both sides of the aisle, recognize that they, too, beat with the same heart and the same type of blood.
-
When I was modeling in Japan, I could blend in a little because of my hair, but my roommates with blonde hair got harassed. People would touch their hair and grope them in the subway. Actually, a lot of groping happens in the subway in Japan, but that's probably true of subways everywhere.
-
At noon, on the Fourth of July, 1826, while the Liberty Bell was again sounding its old message to the people of Philadelphia, the soul of Thomas Jefferson passed on; and a few hours later John Adams entered into rest, with the name of his old friend upon his lips.
-
When people are confronted with something they've never seen before, they really don't know how to react.
-
That's the whole point is just to bring people together in a really positive way and laugh together and cry together and just be connected through a simple thing of a few chords.
-
I have lots of gaps in my education, and so I'm often picking up classic books that most people read years ago.
-
Success is like food caught in your teeth: much more noticeable when it happens to other people. If it happens to you, other people have to take you aside and say something.
-
I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas.
-
To really get to know people and discover humanity, which is what I truly think writers and actors do, you've got to be interested in other human beings, you have to be interested in humanity in general, and you have to do some discovering of humanity and different people.
-
I don't need to be someone famous or George Clooney. I don't need to be any of these people to get involved in my community or reach out to one nationally.
-
Sometimes when I see a bad performance and people still clap... I wonder if they're clapping because they liked what they saw or because they're happy it's over?
-
It's great to be able to just go with an idea and not have 10 people in a room telling me why I can't write in a huge mud slide at a school function with 50 kindergartners running around.
-
Religion has gotten a bad rap for good reasons. Often, there are a lot of people - women, LBGT, and others - you know, hierarchical monotheism has been a real source of a type of oppression.
-
People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.
