People Quotes

• Thousand years ago, we all descended from Africans who left the continent. Those ancestors, we will never know their name. We can go back 200 or 300 years and actually populate your family tree with real people who had names and documents. They had customs, characteristics that, unbeknownst to you, you have inherited. Almost through osmosis it has been passed down to you.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Real
  • Family
  • Tree

• Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have.

  

  Erica Jong
  • People
  • Experimentation

• The thing about goals is that living without them is a lot more fun, in the short run. It seems to me, though, that the people who get things done, who lead, who grow and who make an impact . . . those people have goals.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Fun
  • Goal
  • Impact

• I urge people to get in touch with how you really feel, and don't lie to yourself. Absolutely don't. You may not necessarily be able to change something right now, but you need to know how you really feel.

  

  Deborah King
  • People
  • Feel
  • Necessarily

• When people don't comply, things - bad things will happen afterwards.

  

  Eric Bolling
  • People
  • Afterwards
  • Comply

• Maybe people are finally tiring of watered down grunge rock on the radio.

  

  Brian Christian
  • People
  • Rock
  • Radio

• No diss to any of my homies, but I pay very close attention to what people say about me.

  

  Raheem DeVaughn
  • Attention
  • Say
  • About

• When you're making a bigger movie, you have much bigger set pieces that require more time and more effort and more people.

  

  James Wan
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Effort

• For me, I want to get across the stage to the people. I want to point at you, thirty, forty rows back, and you know I'm pointing at you, and we're having a laugh and getting it together.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • People
  • Stage
  • Laugh

• I still get angry when older people assume that everyone in my generation, screws around. They're probably the same ones who think all kids use dope. It's true that we are more open than our parents but that just means we accept sex and talk about it. It doesn't mean we are all jumping into bed together.

  

  Judy Blume
  • Together
  • Parent
  • Accepting

• Don Donald was clearly accustomed to addressing people whose only way of responding was to nod worshipfully and take notes. He did not, in other words, leave a lot of breaks in his testimony to allow for discussion. For the moment, that was fine, since it made it easier for Richard to drink.

  

  Neal Stephenson
  • People
  • Words

• Chocolate and candy. That's what we brought in to our friends. We worked in East Berlin with other artists who were smuggled out to come work in the Western Bloc. It was extraordinary because people in East Berlin just wanted to know what was happening. Music. Fashion. The news. All of the things we get every day.

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Artist

• I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.

  

  Tony Gilroy
  • People
  • Behinds
  • Rewriting

• Oh, how much holier the world would be if more people invoked their right to remain silent.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • People
  • World
  • Silent

• All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. People who obsessively follow these leaders instead of their own purpose attach to the spiritual leader and become fanatical and controlling. That's why Jesus tried to tell his followers not to get attached to outward form.

  

  Martha Beck
  • Why
  • True
  • Purpose

• We express America's values from the State Department. We represent the American people. We represent America's values, our commitment to freedom, our commitment to equal treatment to people the world over. And that message has never changed.

  

  Rex W. Tillerson
  • People
  • Commitment
  • Changed

• I'm proud to have been in some of the films that continue to be a special part of people's lives.

  

  Judge Reinhold
  • Proud
  • Special
  • Lives

• I had such a good time doing that movie [Sister Act 2]. My daughter's in that movie. It was a fun film to do. And it shocked a lot of people, because they loved it, and they take it with them.

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • People
  • Fun

• Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • People
  • Beginning

• I just do my act. If people in England don't get my joke I make fun of myself for telling it.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Fun
  • England
  • Jokes

• I don't mind fans coming up in a friendly, respectful way. That's all part of the fun of being a top tennis player. But if people take pictures without permission, particularly if my children are in the shot, I feel uncomfortable.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Fun

• A diet counselor once told me that all overweight people are angry with their mothers and channel their frustrations into overeating. So I guess that means all thin people are happy, calm, and have resolved their Oedipal entanglements.

  

  Wendy Wasserstein
  • Mean
  • Calm
  • Psychology

• I want people to feel the heat while they walk down the street and they're just kickin' it.

  

  Missy Elliott
  • People
  • Down
  • While

• The people of Hispaniola had their lives unjustly and savagely taken by professed Jesus followers, and they were not, as we all know, the only ones to meet such a fate. Millions of their Indigenous sisters and brothers on Turtle Island were killed at the hands of other Europeans, as nation after imperial nation, bearing Christ on their lips and crosses on their military standards, followed suit.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • People
  • Hispaniola
  • Jesus followers

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