People Quotes
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I think a lot of people who were addicts are actually people who had that strong innate need to experience non-ordinary states of consciousness. But because our society has turned into this destructive culture of these horrible drugs that nullify you, they have that experience in a negative way. And then they lose that capacity forever, to have it in a positive way.
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In the past I was very open and very generous, and I found that it just exploded in my face. A lot of people weren't there for me when I needed them. So I have become a little shell shocked. Subsequently almost paranoid and frightened of people now. Maybe I'm losing out in meeting some marvelous people, but I am doing the only thing I can to save my spirit.
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People are never satisfied. They crave too much then complain too much.
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Artists are in the imagining/ prototyping business. Society needs people to be out there thinking of what might be. That cannot be something we just delegate to politicians or technologists.
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People who speak different languages, they are watching the movie from our language. So, I think all of us should be proud as nation and as cinema lovers.
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I've kept the people who've been in my career who I feel are my family. Kathy Kennedy had been with me since 1978. Janusz Kaminsky, my cinematographer, has made every movie with me since Schindler's List. Michael Kahn has cut every movie I've directed since 1976 when we made Close Encounters together. Rick Carter has done more than 15 of my directed films as a production designer.
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I would like the people that buy my clothes to understand that for me it's one small piece of art.
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We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so.
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Most people don't know who Ken Mehlman is. He's the chairman of the Republican Party, obviously, but what he's doing that Howard Dean isn't doing is spending a lot of time on the nuts and bolts of putting the party together.
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Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.
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How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.
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Sometimes people's reactions tell more about themselves.
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I grew up in Ireland, and the ocean was never more than an arm's length away. As lovely as the mountains are and as friendly as the people of Utah are, I feel a bit landlocked here.
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I believed that we had to answer the question: Why are we doing this? And it wasn’t until we started to articulate, internally as an organisation, that it was about using the Games to inspire young people to participate in sports that we each understood what we had to do.
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I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. People think I'm joking, but who would've guessed that computer engineers would've been the sexy job of the 1990s?
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People should follow their own energy.
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If you put yourself around people that want to be productive, that want to make the most of what they have, then the sky's the limit.
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One problem with people is that as soon as they fill a space it's them you see and not the space. Large, desolate landscapes stop being large, desolate landscapes once they have people in them. They define what the eye sees. And the human eye is almost always directed at other humans. In this way an illusion is created that humans are more important than those things on earth which are not human. It's a sick illusion.
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Are the people who run for president really the best in a country of 240 million? If so, something has happened to the gene pool.
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Every so often we hear people clamor for a change. Let's change the Constitution, change the form of Government, change everything for better or worse except to change the only thing that needs changing first: The human heart and our standard of success and human values.
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The poor are our brothers and sisters ... people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted.
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People who do music do it because it is all they can do. And that's me, I suppose. I can do nothing else.
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When I write, I'm constantly putting myself in the position of someone else as I write using myriad voices; I think that's a life skill all people should learn.
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I used to be really nervous to perform in front of people. I would cry.
