People Quotes

• Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

  

  Socrates
  • Death
  • Philosophy
  • Right

• When the car was introduced in 1908, people could experience a brand new way to travel that was more efficient than a horse and buggy. Can you believe that cities tried to outlaw cars in the United States? Can you imagine driving a car for a year then having to go back to a horse and buggy?

  

  Joe Gebbia
  • Believe
  • Experience
  • Car

• I think people tune in to watch a football game because they want to watch a football game. If they wanted to watch a stand-up comedy show on HBO, that's where they'd go

  

  Dan Dierdorf
  • Think
  • Comedy
  • Football

• We need to engage rather than educate people.

  

  Jochen Zeitz
  • People

• When people doubt your abilities, the greatest joy on earth is making them eat their words.

  

  Zacky Vengeance
  • Earth
  • Words
  • Joy

• We should not be waiting until trains derail, bridges collapse and people die to adequately fund our transportation infrastructure.

  

  Elizabeth Esty
  • People
  • Die
  • Waiting

• Oh! We already, we done already done it, done it, dammit! I could you know, like, sing a thing, and then not sing it for a little while, and then sing it again... and people would be like, 'Why'd he sing that again?'

  

  Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Band
  • People
  • Done
  • Why

• People who are great at making decisions in the face of uncertainty have great judgment.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • People
  • Great

• The culture is just so coarse that you have to take it to that level and people will be like, 'Whoa!' And then you can make people think about stuff. It's kind of like shock therapy.

  

  Matt Stone
  • People
  • Culture

• When you limit the length of the video to something under two minutes, it gives everyday people an opportunity to make something entertaining. It's harder to tell a story or create an entertaining piece of content that is based around the time slot model, television shows being 22 minutes long.

  Chad Hurley
  • Time
  • Long
  • Opportunity

• Just wear what you want, if you like something that's all that matters. Dress for yourself not for other people.

  

  Jesy Nelson
  • Want
  • Matter
  • Something

• People who are obsessed amuse me.

  

  Lydia Millet
  • People

• I am a strong believer in the free market. I am a strong believer in capitalism. But, I am also a strong believer that there are certain common goods - our air, our water, making sure that people are safe - that require to have some regulation.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Free
  • Strong
  • Water

• I am one of those people who is not very patient in the makeup chair. I have been offered movies like 'Planet of the Apes' and stuff like 'The Grinch Who Stole Christmas' and I turned them down.

  

  John C. Reilly
  • People
  • Christmas
  • Makeup

• We must take care that globalization does not become something people become afraid of.

  

  Gerhard Fritz Kurt Schröder
  • People
  • Afraid
  • Globalization

• I'm one of those people who can't watch themselves do anything. I could never watch myself wrestle. I've probably watched a handful of my matches. I never could watch myself. Even when I played college basketball, I hated film days... 'Oh God, I'm gonna watch myself screw up.' I'm just one of those people who can't watch their work.

  

  Kevin Nash
  • Up
  • Work
  • God

• I think it sits quite happily with me, the condition of being an actor. I see some people getting quite eaten up with it, with the insecurities. There are times when I long for continuity and stability, but I also love the idea of not knowing what I'll be doing next - or even if I'm going to work.

  

  Matthew Macfadyen
  • Up
  • Work
  • Long

• The emotions of men, however, were of a different order. They were pesky annoyances, small dust devils at her feet. Her knack for causing heartbreak was innate, but her vitality often made people forgive her romantic misdeeds.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Men
  • Different
  • Emotion

• I don't know what's best for other people.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • People

• There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Capitalism
  • PCs

• To me, the real opinion polls are the tangible facts: the growing creation of jobs, the number of planning permissions, the number of commercial vans being sold - the signs that the Irish people are regaining confidence.

  

  Enda Kenny
  • Real
  • Growing
  • Opinion

• I think saying 'a John Hughes movie' is just shorthand for a lot of people to say 'a coming-of-age story,' because I think, when you're of a certain age, that's what John Hughes means to you.

  

  Jon Watts
  • People
  • Movie
  • Age

• At Standing Rock, we experienced, first-hand, people coming together in their communities and trying to use the levers of representative democracy to try and say, 'We don't want this in our community; we don't want this in our backyard,' and corporations using their monetary influence to completely erode that process.

  

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
  • Trying
  • Together
  • Community

• Part of the reason that I moved to Los Angeles is that even though my mom introduced me to all kinds of music, I really wanted to work on having my own identify, on being who I am and doing what I do, and seeing how people responded.

  

  Schuyler Fisk
  • Kind
  • Mom
  • Reason

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