People Quotes
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The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.
Stephen Fry
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I like to go to the subway and hear what people are thinking and feeling and what their concerns are. You learn so much that way. You really do.
Chirlane McCray
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I think people will have great conversations about religions, women's sexuality, gender issues and gay issues.
Pam Grier
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People who are great at making decisions in the face of uncertainty have great judgment.
Andy Dunn
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We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any real people except those to the east and south of their own country, or near the coast of the Mediterranean.
Thomas Bulfinch
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A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.
Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
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Why am I an atheist? I ask you: Why is anybody not an atheist? Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated. I resent anyone pushing their religion on me. I don't push my atheism on anybody else. Live and let live. Not many people practice that when it comes to religion.
Andy Rooney
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I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It's by the sea, there's a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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Britney Spears is a big influence. Huge. I think people thought I was joking about that for a long time. But when I was a teenager, there was a genuine connection with this sweet girl who also had this very sexual side that people didn't really want to accept.
Marina and the Diamonds
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They'll be days like this" my momma said. When you open your hands to catch, and wind up with only blisters and bruises. When you try to step out of the phone booth and try to fly , and the very people you want to save, are the ones standing on your cape. When your boots will fill with rain, and you'll be up to your knees with disappointment And those are the very days you have all the more reason to say "Thank you".
Sarah Kay
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A mind wishing to benefit other people and other sentient beings is the very basis of peace and happiness.
Dalai Lama
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For any sport to be sustainable, it cannot survive on government or corporate grants alone. The sporting ecosystem needs more investments from businesses, and businesses need to see the returns from their investment in sport. Cricket has achieved that distinction, but I feel a country of a billion-plus people cannot remain captive to one sport.
Anand Mahindra
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America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity.
Shirley Chisholm
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I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Ive never really played everyday people. Ive played realist roles, but not mere daily life. There was always something incredible happening to my characters
Sandrine Bonnaire
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It's weird sometimes to have people not see me or see what I do.
Esperanza Spalding
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All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility.
Doris Lessing
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I am trying to give the best performance possible in 400 pages. I want readers to be scared; I want them to be moved. Entertainment doesn't necessarily mean something trivial, but it does mean people wanting to get to the end of a book.
Mark Billingham
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I feel really ambiguous about the psychology of people trying to do good in the world.
Alexei Sayle
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I wanna do the very best job I can to fulfill the trust and faith that people have in me.
Hillary Clinton
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The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
John Locke Nazareth
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I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them.
Edward Zwick
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People have told me, 'My dad passed on, but I have great memories of watching your shows with him.' It doesn't get any better than that.
Bob Newhart
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People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.
Neil LaBute