People Quotes

• I'm very excited to see where the characters and their relationships go. But in the end, it really boils down to the people who have more power than me, who control the money.

  

  Brandon Routh
  • Money
  • Power
  • Control

• No matter how many people are screaming your name or how many Number One hits you have, you can still wake up and feel like a loser.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Up

• I don't have an all-embracing vision which people have to buy. I'm simply trying to work with the struggles we all deal with every day while we're trying to live out our personal destinies and make a living at the same time.

  

  David Whyte
  • Time
  • Work
  • Live

• Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • People
  • Conversations
  • Lexicon

• People in New Hampshire know that I'll talk thoughtfully, substantively about any issue.

  

  John Sununu
  • People

• One goal of my art is to help people remember why they are here now.

  

  Gage Taylor
  • People
  • Remember

• Instapaper is much bigger today than I could have predicted in 2008, and it has simply grown far beyond what one person can do. To really shine, it needs a full-time staff of at least a few people.

  

  Marco Arment
  • Time
  • Today
  • Shine

• There's a level of self-hatred in giving these people too much power. They're sorry. They're corny. They're hateful. They need some help. Help is on the way. We'll help them whether they like it or not.

  

  Van Jones
  • Power
  • Help
  • Giving

• Successful people do what others know they should do but will not. To become a success, or just be more successful, you will do what average, less-motivated people will not.

  

  Chalene Johnson
  • Should
  • Successful
  • Motivated

• I guess there's this mind shift that happens once you're on stage. I don't know, chemicals, something happens and you just... I just become completely in control of where I am. And it's all about trusting the people that you're on the stage with, listening... and it just falls into place really easily.

  

  Deborah Mailman
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Listening

• People interested in lowering their cholesterol should probably acquire a taste for tofu and oatmeal.

  

  David Jenkins
  • People
  • Cholesterol
  • Lowering

• I think it is true that when we're older, we realize the way that people act is... you know, everyone's kind of talking off the cuff, and everyone's, you know, spitballing sometimes.

  

  Elif Batuman
  • People
  • True

• 15 years later, it's all the TV stars with the film deals, whether it's the cast of Friends or That '70s Show now with Ashton and other people doing stuff.

  

  Anthony Michael Hall
  • People
  • Friends

• I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.

  

  Alison Krauss
  • Music
  • Truth
  • Honesty

• When I talk to a few thousand people, I just feel I am talking to an old friend. Like that. I never felt some kind of distance, so therefore, I feel one source of happiness. In that kind of atmosphere, my experience seems some benefit to some people.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Experience
  • Friend
  • Distance

• I do all kinds of roles - nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho - and occasionally someone kind of normal. It's weird, when I lived in Austin I was always cast as pretty normal people. But when I moved to Los Angeles I was immediately branded a psycho.

  

  John Hawkes
  • Pretty
  • Weird
  • Nerd

• I was very lucky because hanging out at a golf course was much better than being on the streets. Golf taught me a great deal. I grew up surrounded by people who were professionals - lawyers, doctors, engineers. Around them, I learned how to behave, speak, eat, dress. I had nothing at home. The club was my home.

  

  Angel Cabrera
  • Up
  • Great
  • Home

• I'm really not a great businessperson. I understand business, and I understand numbers, but I think what I understand more than that is people... Ultimately, I think businesses fail and people fail because they don't have their act together.

  

  Marcus Lemonis
  • Great
  • Business
  • Together

• I've always made sure that I tour with bands that people aren't expecting me to tour with.

  

  Andrew Mayer Cohen
  • People

• In some people's eyes, nudity is so much more dangerous than violence. I never really understood that.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Violence

• Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.

  

  John Sandford
  • People
  • Trying

• All I can do is advocate changes at the BBC while respecting editorial independence upon which the success of the BBC rests. I can't do anything that requires the BBC to pay certain people certain amounts.

  

  Jeremy Hunt
  • People
  • Success

• I love those people who do story-telling and who ramble on, but I don't do that, I tell jokes - the sort of jokes that anyone really could tell in the pub.

  

  Jimmy Carr
  • People

• The step that a lot of people miss is a dispassionate evaluation of the reasons for rejection. If you can dispassionately evaluate the reasons for rejection and find them with merit, you can address them; if without merit, you can ignore them.

  

  Brian Koppelman
  • Rejection
  • Merit
  • Evaluation

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