People Quotes

• The brutal history of colonialism is one in which white people literally stole land and people for their own gain and material wealth.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • People
  • History

• Negotiations over a shrinking pie are especially difficult because they require an allocation of losses. People tend to be much more easygoing when they bargain over an expanding pie.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
  • People

• I don't want my reputation to take me over, I just want to be judged on my songs. I want people to come and see me because they want to, not because fashion dictates it.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • People
  • Fashion

• When a person makes a decision, people will always want a reason they understand, so they'll put a negative spin on things.

  

  Desiree Rogers
  • People
  • Decision

• I am interested in details. If you go into anything far enough, you get into the details of it, and people turn out to be interested in what makes things work.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Work
  • Enough
  • Ifs

• I would like to thank those who spoke boldly against the 'gay marriage float' in the 2014 Rose Parade. Apparently, that vigorous opposition came from perhaps millions of people, and it had a significant influence on how the matter was handled on network and cable television.

  

  James Dobson
  • Marriage
  • Gay
  • Rose

• My grandchildren are growing up and they could not understand why the Marcoses are still being crucified although we keep on telling them that we did not steal from the Filipino people.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Up
  • Why
  • Growing

• My first 'Daily Show' piece was pretending I had this terrible immigrant journey, so I went to talk to an immigration lawyer who would help out people, and I ran into him in Penn Station about three months after I'd gotten the green card. I said, 'I got my green card yesterday.' And he hugged me because he understood that level of relief.

  

  John Oliver
  • Help
  • Journey
  • Daily

• Some people are faster than others; I'm just figuring it out later, that's all. I'm getting smart too late and old too soon.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • People
  • Smart
  • Figuring

• We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it.

  

  Margot Kidder
  • People
  • Mom
  • Singing

• When you get to work with people like Ian McKellen or directors like Peter Jackson, you sit and watch.

  

  Luke Evans
  • People
  • Work

• Even in the very beginning when she would bump into George Valentine and people would start taking pictures of her, she never thought, 'I'm with George Valentine. I need to get a picture with him.' She's like 'oh that's funny. Everyone's taking pictures!'

  

  Berenice Bejo
  • She
  • Funny
  • Beginning

• It's getting so people no longer count the silverware when I come to dinner.

  

  Wilson Mizner
  • People
  • Dinner

• I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other.

  

  Ben Kingsley
  • Father
  • Son
  • Wishes

• Making disciples isn’t about gathering pupils to listen to your teaching. The real focus is not on teaching people at all–the focus is on loving them.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Real
  • Focus
  • Teaching

• Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.

  

  Wilma Mankiller
  • People
  • Moving
  • Ability

• I define talent as the rate at which you get better at something when you try. To be very talented means you get better faster and more easily than other people or other things that you try.

  

  Angela Duckworth
  • People

• And the evening of the big Vanity Fair arrived.. . Perre Rathbone and innumerable people received me in enormous halls. The reporter shot pictures and Mrs. Beckmann Quappi, his wife grinned – - o-la-La.. ..The whole story is a monumental caprice of my situation in Germany before the Nazi's.

  

  Max Beckmann
  • People
  • Wife

• Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class. The upper class wants people to have ambition and gumption because, if you do, you will participate and you'll move through society into a different class structure.

  

  Jeff Koons
  • Different
  • Society
  • Ambition

• People think just because I'm from the Middle East, I'm an expert on the Middle East. So, like, I got a friend, like, any time the gas prices go up, he'll always ask my opinion about it.

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • Up
  • Time
  • Friend

• There was a cinema called The Orient outside the community centre where we rehearsed in Six Ways, and whenever it showed a horror film the queue would go all the way down the street and around the corner. 'Isn't it strange how people will pay money to frighten themselves?' I remember Tony [Iommi] saying one day. 'Maybe we should stop doing blues and write scary music instead.'

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Writing
  • Community
  • Scary

• 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

• There's a lot of letters, and a lot of people come say "hi" at book signings, but I'm amazed at how normal everybody is.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Book
  • Letters
  • Signings

• There may be people who try to imitate art when they get dressed and people who just get dressed to cover themselves up, but I guess that both send out messages and communicate their ideas and feelings through their looks.

  

  Margherita Missoni
  • Up
  • Art
  • May

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