People Quotes
-
I was full of energy, and I had a lot of bottled up rage that would come out in my stage performances. It was therapy sessions for someone who couldn't afford to go to therapy, a way to release my frustration, my inhibition. When I was little, growing up in an abusive household, I felt like I didn't have a voice. Suddenly I was on stage and people were watching me and listening to me, so even if I was singing about something that didn't have to do with abuse, when I was on stage I could express all of the anger, the rage.
-
Most employees want to be involved in a successful business and most employees are happy for people running successful businesses to be paid a reasonable wage and a market rate for it, provided they understand the reason. What they hate most of all is pay for failure.
-
Melatonin levels start to rise around 9 or 10 at night in most people.
-
If there's something bothering me in the business end of things with people I work with, I just say it right out.
-
I'm really grateful to be able to do what I do and I want to thank the people that helped me get there.
-
You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.
-
The consequences of whiteness are particularly lethal right now. And the ignorance about it, especially on the part of white people themselves, makes them unavoidably complicit in a system that has to be unmasked, unveiled, undressed in order to be reformed or destroyed.
-
I haven't had ice-cream in a year, although I did have a slice of pizza. People don't realise that when you're shooting a movie it's only three months to get in shape for.
-
One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by well-fed people with the time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.
-
I believe that all people living together in unity is one of the most important messages we can teach our children.
-
You can't be all things to all people.
-
A lot of people notice when you succeed, but they don't see what it takes to get there.
-
It would not be much of a universe if it wasn't home to the people you love.
-
The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.
-
When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you.
-
People have forgotten how to tell a story.
-
I see a lot of people who love their jobs. I see some garbage collectors smiling as they go about their work.
-
I'd say it's that most people think that very wealthy people take huge risks and that's why they have huge rewards. But the very best on earth are completely obsessed with not losing money. That sounds overly simplistic, but they know that if you lost 50 percent, it takes 100 percent to get even. Most people don't make that math in their head, so it takes years and years. They are obsessed with not losing money.
-
It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.
-
I write songs for people who drive in cars. I really do.
-
Are you going to divest in the banks and pension funds? Plenty of people are willing to invest in stock of those companies. You can argue that when a lot of people divest, it makes the stock price artificially low, which makes their price-to-earnings ratio more favorable, which makes it a better investment for the people who don't give a damn - - and is it really going to change corporate behavior? It begins to create a climate of antagonistic opinion, the result might be that the corporate executives will retreat even more into their own selfjustifying narratives.
-
To handle that stardom, the red carpets, the photo shoots, people all of a sudden recognizing you and following you in everyday life, it's a bit weird. It's strange, and it can have funny effects on you in terms of do you like it or don't you like it. Some people run away from it, some people embrace it; I found a good middle ground.
-
I've always had individual friends, but I didn't find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my midtwenties.
-
I don't think a lot of people realized that piracy is out there, and it's not a Disney-esque or Johnny Depp-esque type of thing.
