People Quotes

• The enormously diverse culture where people can agree and disagree is just amazing, and to learn about the events that took place here over millennia has been fantastic. It's a trip I'll never forget.

  

  Miguel Ferrer
  • Culture
  • Forget
  • Agree

• Often people expect I have some touching personal story about kidney disease, but it's actually the mathematics that led me to it.

  

  Alvin E. Roth
  • People

• Insult comedy has been around forever. I can make fun of people, and they won't get mad at me.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • Fun
  • Comedy
  • Forever

• Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don't recognize our own beauty because we're too busy comparing ourselves to other people.

  

  Kelly Osbourne
  • People
  • Women

• I'm hoping that other people can learn from me, both the mistakes I've made or the opportunities I've had, or for the decisions I've made: for instance, not to go and take a lot of different jobs in a lot of different places, but to stay in one place for most of my career.

  

  Adena Friedman
  • People
  • Different
  • Career

• Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral code, the idea that there existed certain behaviors that could be celebrated and that could be operative in a life.

  

  Edward Zwick
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Culture

• It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Together
  • Story
  • Binds

• Do people have an idea of who they think I am? Yes, and that's fine with me. My music will speak for itself.

  

  Jamie Lynn Spears
  • People
  • Music

• When people were like, "Oh, wow, Donald Trump is so crazy. That's so nuts, what's happening?" in the 9 a.m. meeting, Jon Stewart was like, "No, I've seen this before, in Robert Mugabe. I've seen Trump as an African dictator. You guys don't know about nationalist rhetoric all over Europe?" "No, I thought we were the center of the world." He has the ability to actually talk about that in a real way: "Oh, I've been there. I've talked to people there. This is just the remix on stuff that's been brewing for three, four years." That's something very special.

  

  Hasan Minhaj
  • Donald Trump
  • Jon Stewart
  • Robert Mugabe

• It would be really easy to get discouraged over gun safety, and I have to explain all the time why I am not giving up and why people should not give up.

  

  Elizabeth Esty
  • Up
  • Time
  • Why

• People who create art would be fools to assume they know exactly what people are going to think of it.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Fool

• From the Twitter responses we got with 'Best Friends Forever' and the small feedback we are getting as the show is meted out, I think people are seeing themselves in the show and enjoying seeing female friendship portrayed in the way it really is.

  

  Lennon Parham
  • Friends
  • Small
  • Forever

• 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 am alone, some people help me, but, basically, I can do what I want.

  

  Sergei Bubka
  • People
  • Want
  • Helping

• I think Facebook has a lot of work to do to make sure people are seeing meaningful things and not garbage.

  

  Brad Stone
  • People
  • Work
  • Meaningful

• No one can ever heap enough insults upon me to suit my taste. I think we all really thrive on hostility, because it's the most intense kind of massage the ego can undergo. Other people's indifference is the only horror.

  

  Paul Bowles
  • People
  • Ego

• Domestic violence is much more prevalent than people realize.

  

  Chirlane McCray
  • People
  • Violence

• I've worked on movies where there's all these people coming and going, and I don't even know who they are.

  

  Allison Anders
  • People

• To worry before the common people worries; To enjoy only after the people can enjoy.

  

  Fan Zhongyan
  • People
  • Worry

• In reality, I know I'm not hurt directly by sexism; however, my life is made less because of it, so I started thinking about the fallout from relationships in which people feed off each other.

  

  Boots Riley
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Fallouts

• Climate helps to shape the character of peoples, certainly no people more than the English. The uncertainty of their climate has helped to make the English, a long-suffering, phlegmatic, patient people rather insensitive to surprise, stoical against storms,. slightly incredulous at every appearance of the sun, touched by the lyrical gratitude of someone who expects nothing and suddenly receives more than he dreamed.

  

  H. E. Bates
  • Character
  • Helping
  • Gratitude

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

  

  Kevin Plank
  • People
  • Believe

• Women have been trained in our culture and society to ask for what we want instead of taking what we want. We've been really indoctrinated with this culture of permission. I think it's true for women, and I think it's true for people of color. It's historic, and it's unfortunate and has somehow become part of our DNA. But that time has passed.

  

  Ava DuVernay
  • Time
  • Women
  • True

• I think when people see Pluto revealed by New Horizons, its satellite system, its complex surface, its atmosphere, I think they'll have a hard time saying 'That's not a planet' because it obviously will be, and I think most people are already coming to that opinion anyway, but I think that's really going to drive it home viscerally.

  

  Alan Stern
  • Time
  • Home
  • Opinion

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