People Quotes
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Dorothy Day said - and I'm sure that Kathy Kelly would say the same thing - 'I'm working toward a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently.' Now, think about that: a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently.
Studs Terkel
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People will be able to judge for themselves.
Hillary Clinton
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As for worrying about what other people might think - forget it. They aren't concerned about yours. They're too busy worrying about what you and other people think of theirs.
Michael LeBoeuf
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We don’t need better emotional communication from machines. We need people to have more empathy. The reason the Uncanny Valley exists is because humans created it to put other people into. It’s how we justify killing each other.
Charlie Jane Anders
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Most of the time most people know the right thing to do ...its the doing of it that gives them trouble...
Harry S Truman
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Doing a movie about Steve Jobs is just generally a provocative thing to do, whoever does it, and it begs a lot of questioning and skepticism only in that, what is this going to be? What am I going to be looking at? And curiosity as well. I think thats all positive in any film, because you want people to be curious about it.
Joshua Michael Stern
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Never esteem people (including yourself) more because they have money, nor think less of anyone (including yourself) because they lack it. Virtue is the only just reason for respecting anyone, lack of virtue the only reason for holding anyone in low regard.
William Penn
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I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of their own standards and values and not what other people said or thought about them.
Hillary Clinton
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I did sit in cinemas as a kid looking at English and American movies thinking, "Wouldn't it be great if the characters were like real people?" And the worst thing is films are constantly advertising themselves, drawing attention to their style of things. But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic. But you don't want the audience thinking about the bloody film. You want them to think about what's going on, and believe in it. Be flies on the wall, you know?
Mike Leigh
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Wal-Mart has done more for poor people then any ten liberals, at least nine of whom are almost guaranteed to hate Wal-Mart.
Thomas Sowell
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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
Eric Hoffer
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The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling. People who fear the worst tend to invite it. Heads that are down can't scan the horizon for new openings. Bursts of energy do not spring from a spirit of defeat. Ultimately, helplessness leads to hopelessness.
Norman Cousins
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We try to make films for people [that are] the films that we'd like to see. They're not easy to get made. They're hard to get made. You have to keep the budget low to get them made. But at the end of the day, I don't really worry about competition, because I don't really think of it that way. I don't feel like I'm in a race with anybody.
George Clooney
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I'm writing for entertainment. I like people to reach the end and feel they got their money's worth.
Clive Cussler
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I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become historical the next day.
Catherine Opie
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It changed my life in terms of what it did to my health, and what it did to my view of making games, and my relationships with people.
Ken Levine
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For many people, extended reading sessions on an LCD display cause eyestrain.
Jeff Bezos
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You have to understand being an actress, and being an African American actress of a certain hue, I think that you have to be bold with your choices. Even when you're not bold with your choices, have people see it as bold.
Viola Davis
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Excess exercise tends to be counterbalanced by excess hunger, exemplified by the phrase 'working up an appetite.' A few people with extraordinary willpower can resist such hunger day after day, but for the vast majority, weight loss through exercise is a flawed option.
Andrew Weil
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For some people, being free means being free to keep their feet on someone else's chest.
Mike Royko
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If a people have no word for something, either it does not matter to them or it matters too much to talk about.
Edgar Friedenberg
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The mind of the people is like mud, from which arises strange and beautiful things.
Walter J. Turner
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Companies are bought for their revenue, customer base, technology, or people. A few great companies offer all of these, but any valuable business offers one.
Margaret Heffernan
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I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.
Alex Kapranos Franz Ferdinand