People Quotes
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I'm concerned, as I guess all middle-aged people are, about the younger generations' level of literacy.
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I was never a joiner. I tried - I had people I admired and liked and wanted to hang with, but I ended up starting a theatre company and that took me back to Chicago... I guess I wasn't a scenester in the end. Something must have worked out right, as I'm still here - but I'm only a binge socialite.
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Put the picture away or, preferably, send it back to me, dear Valentin. If people cannot understand it is based on their inner engagement with these matters, then there is no point in showing the thing at all.
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I never set out to do interior design; I just do what I do, and some people come along and want me to work with them.
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If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.
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Praise is a contradiction of pride. Pride says 'looks at me,' but praise longs for people to see Jesus.
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People, I am the son of the people. I pledge before God that I will sacrifice myself for your sake. I shall offer my life in defence of the Iraqi people.
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We only put the negative black people on television. We don't put the good, hard-working black people.
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When movie people go over into television, it's a little bit of a shock. It's much faster-paced. Everything is really last-minute. You won't know your schedule for the next episode until the last minute.
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It's rewarding being with these people, making a connection with them, and being able to take them out to the cemetery. It's just a real special time.
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I feel there's something about becoming a character that helps people understand themselves.
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I'm not sure why it's taken so long, but I think people are relating to strong female leads.
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Robert Plant is one of the nicest people you'll ever meet, never mind rock star. He's so down to earth.
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Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest, but who has the right information. Because even as we're the most religious of people, America's innovative genius has always been preserved because we also have a deep faith in facts.
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We're just musically and rhythmically retarded. We play so hard that we can't tune our guitars fast enough. People can relate to that.
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I want people to see my color and my culture written all over me, because I am proud of the skin I'm in. It is an important part of my identity. What I don't want them to do is mistreat me because of it.
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I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.
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[Some] people really expect the passion of love to fill and gratify every need of life, whereas nature only intended that it should meet one of many demands. They insist on making it stand for all the emotional pleasures of life and art; expecting an individual and self-limited passion to yield infinite variety, pleasure, and distraction, and to contribute to their lives what the arts and the pleasurable exercise of the intellect gives to less limited and less intense idealists.
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Every religion emphasizes human improvement, love, respect for others, sharing other people's suffering. On these lines every religion had more or less the same viewpoint and the same goal.
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I'm learning to trust other people to do things. My time is limited, and I'd rather be spending it with my kids.
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Emotions are the natural result of striving for something. Every single scene has two or more people in it, and nobody wants the same thing, so they are negotiating this one way or another. The result of that negotiation will bring out all kinds of emotional stuff in you.
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An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically equal; neither of these things is true.
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The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.
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Few people love with the violence they hate.
