People Quotes

• However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - in other words, not a thing, but a think.

  

  Penelope Fitzgerald
  • People
  • World
  • Words

• Gender is not an easy conversation to have. It makes people uncomfortable, sometimes even irritable. Both men and women are resistant to talk about gender or are quick to dismiss the problems of gender. Because thinking of changing the status quo is always uncomfortable.

  

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

• Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Up
  • Business
  • Crazy

• I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • Work
  • Country
  • Peace

• After a game like he had yesterday, I told his people I'm surprised he didn't name his child Victoria because this had to be one special day for this kid.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Game
  • Name
  • Victoria

• People are interested in writing, and often there's an unjustifiable sense of people to believe my talking to them for the book is going to accord them any sort of fame. Which it won't. At the same time, they can be more circumspect if they know they're on the record.

  

  Jesse Kellerman
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Writing

• Look at the Civil Rights Movement. Look at any kind of fight for change. People had to keep fighting and taking their rights. Rights are never given to you. They have to be fought for and they have to be taken.

  

  Jehane Noujaim
  • People
  • Taken
  • Fighting

• A lot of my friends are club people. It's not me. It's funny to represent that, because it's not me. I don't fit into a gay club setting. It's just ironic that I represent that somehow.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Friends
  • Funny
  • Gay

• If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Along

• Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Nature
  • Question
  • Growth

• I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum.

  

  Anita Baker
  • Life
  • Why
  • Small

• Chess players, people who travel all over the world, should be trusted or else not sent anywhere at all. Why are these four people (Antoshion and three other official 'minders') sent along to supervise us? With their meagre experience, all that thay did was interfere, more than ever before. And when they were needed, they weren't to be found.

  

  Viktor Korchnoi
  • World
  • Why
  • Experience

• The real need is not for more hospital beds. It's for more primary care and keeping people out of hospital beds and emergency rooms.

  

  Alice Rivlin
  • Real
  • Care
  • Hospital

• One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.

  

  Daniel Everett
  • Trying
  • Happy
  • Values

• It's amazing to be able to work with people right at the top of whatever they do... inspiring photographers and stylists with very interesting visual language. The more I do it, the more I enjoy it.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Work
  • Interesting
  • Amazing

• If you only share your best pictures, or your Facetuned self, the thought of people seeing you as you truly are can be scary.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Best
  • Thought
  • Scary

• Most of the time, I've got my kids with me, so I'm not as prone to meeting people. And then, you never really know if someone is talking to you because you're a celebrity.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Celebrity

• A lot of people in my family have high blood pressure. Dre told me I better start hitting the gym... so I took his advice.

  

  Warren G
  • Family
  • High
  • Advice

• The more people love you, the more there's going to be people that hate you.

  

  Kylie Jenner
  • People
  • Hate

• I have a lot of creative control, so I can decide what I want to wear, what I want my brand to look like, what I want my songs to sound like, so I don't sound like some fake artist that people can't relate to.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • People
  • Control
  • Fake

• I think the reason we're all in this band it's because it's a good way for us to express our feelings. We're much better at doing it through our music than we are in, kind of normal ways. I'm comfortable playing to 40,000 people, but if I have to speak to a group of four people, I'd probably go a deep read and start dribbling. I normally feel, whatever I've got to say, I've said it in the songs.

  

  Tim Rice-Oxley Keane
  • Music
  • Band
  • Good Way

• I would like to see people dreaming of striking out on their own into some other country or their own, wherever they feel the action is, in the hope of an exciting and rewarding career.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Country
  • Hope
  • Career

• It took me five years on Lyndon Johnson, ten years on the Kennedys, six years on the Roosevelts. Inevitably, you get shaped by the people that you're thinking about during that period of time.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Period

• I'm not that involved in personal grooming. But I try not to be offensive to people.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Try
  • Personal

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