People Quotes

• I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out.

  

  Thom Yorke Radiohead
  • Great
  • Music
  • Political

• I think there are very few people, in my generation at least, that are that passionate about what they do.

  

  Marina Ann Hantzis aTelecine
  • Thinking
  • Passionate
  • Generations

• The Landlord is a gentleman who does not earn his wealth. He has a host of agents and clerks that receive for him. He does not even take the trouble to spend his wealth. He has a host of people around him to do the actual spending. He never sees it until he comes to enjoy it. His sole function, his chief pride, is the stately consumption of wealth produced by others.

  

  David Lloyd
  • Pride
  • Wealth
  • Gentleman

• I think it's become an economic necessity for people to be able to learn and grow throughout their lives, because most people can't get through their entire career with one skill set. We have to keep reinventing ourselves.

  

  Chesley Sullenberger
  • People
  • Career

• People are very hungry for something new. I think they are interested in being called to be a part of something larger than the sort of small, petty, slash-and-burn politics that we have been seeing over the last several years.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Small
  • Years

• I talked to some vets in L.A. about what they go through and do they think about their experiences a lot. I got a wide array of answers. Some people get very emotional, which is understandable. Two of my best friends growing up are in the armed services, and getting to represent those guys was a big honor for me.

  

  Austin Stowell
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Growing

• It's really a good feeling to know that we put this up there, that it's working, that all these people's plans that worked so hard came together and things fit and we've got a real space station.

  

  Linda M. Godwin
  • Up
  • Good
  • Real

• All great comedians make me laugh, but people make me laugh more.

  

  Louie Anderson
  • People
  • Great

• I believe people change. I think that they can learn from mistakes.

  

  Kevin Plank
  • People
  • Believe

• My brain is here for the picking, and a lot of people are calling me to see what I think about their business, and I'm brutally honest with them.

  

  Charlie Shrem
  • People
  • Business
  • Brain

• It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America.

  

  John Abizaid
  • World
  • Important
  • America

• America does to me what I knew it would do: it just bumps me. The people charge at you like trucks coming down on you -- no awareness. But one tries to dodge aside in time. Bump! bump! go the trucks. And that is human contact.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Time
  • America
  • Society

• It's important to surround yourself with good people, interesting people, young people, young ideas. Go places, learn new stuff. Look at the world with wonder - don't be tired about it.

  

  Angela Bassett
  • World
  • Good
  • Important

• “I suppose once you've been accused of being a witch, you're never really safe. People may blame all sorts of accidents and misfortunes on you.”

  

  Hugh Lofting
  • People
  • Safe
  • Blame

• Some people don't need to work hard because they are so talented.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • People
  • Work

• I really appreciate when people use their fame and their voice for more than just self-promotion, starting a dialogue about a topic or an issue much bigger than themselves.

  

  Questlove
  • People

• It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard!

  

  Derek Jacobi
  • People
  • Life
  • Safety

• I am very friendly with lots of people in rock'n'roll, because I spent so much time with them over the years through Mick's work.

  

  Jerry Hall
  • Time
  • Work
  • Rock

• This is America, and everybody has the right to voice and to have an opinion and to have their commentary on things and people.

  

  Lamman Rucker
  • People
  • America
  • Opinion

• Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Firsts
  • Faces
  • Punk

• If I see that something is wrong, I don't care who says it. Whether it's a Republican or Democrat, the left or the right. If they are on the opinion of the right thing, that's what I will talk about. I won't proselytize or make the strong things to influence other people about any particular politics, except the decency of things, the logic of things. That's why I don't get that much involved in politics directly.

  

  Sergio Aragones
  • Strong
  • Opinion
  • Care

• What really made me want to get involved in politics was seeing the rise of the antichrist Donald Trump. I started to see how he was energizing the country, but he was energizing the country in total opposite ways than Barack did. He wasn't bringing people together; he was literally tearing people apart. He literally wants to build a wall while I feel like Barack Obama's rise actually built bridges.

  

  Charlamagne Tha God
  • Country
  • Together
  • Wall

• I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.

  

  Jim Valvano
  • People
  • Die
  • Cancer

• I care what people think, but that doesn't change what I say. I am who I am.

  

  Curt Schilling
  • People

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