People Quotes

• 'Let people judge me as they please-I can deceive them, but I cannot deceive myself.'And he suddenly understood that the disgust which he had lately felt toward everybody … was disgust with himself.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • People
  • Judge

• Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • World
  • Computer software

• My father was a painter. There was a lot of singing. We hung around with a lot of folk musicians. My family knew a lot of great folk musicians of the time, like Woody Guthrie, Paul Robeson, Leadbelly. They were all people we knew.

  

  Alan Arkin
  • Time
  • Great
  • Family

• Glass is the most magical of all materials. It transmits light in a special way...Im pleased that my art appeals to so many people of all ages. As a parent and an artist, Im especially looking forward to leaving a legacy at The Childrens Museum, a place where I hope my work brings joy to children who visit from all over the world.

  

  Dale Chihuly
  • World
  • Work
  • Children

• If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.

  

  Nathaniel Smith
  • People
  • Friends
  • Nature

• My parents are the hardest-working people I ever knew: they always worked every day, all day; they had to come up with the solutions to make things work. And I think that work ethic, maybe stubbornness, single-mindedness, definitely played a role for me. I'm definitely thankful for my roots.

  

  Peggy Whitson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Parents

• That happy sense of purpose people have when standing up for a principle they haven't really been knocked down for yet.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Purpose

• We go after legacies because we just know that, sooner or later, people will understand what we bring to this culture and bring to the game.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Game
  • Culture

• The best design work is really done when you spend more time with people, when you have the opportunity to be of the same mindset and the same incentives as the founder of the business.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Time
  • Work
  • Done

• Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? 'Cause he had problems.

  

  Bernie Mac
  • People
  • Why

• 'Howard the Duck!' That's a really interesting movie. I appreciate my career, because I've had a lot of very interesting ups and downs, and most people... That movie is such a famous flop. In a land of a lot of flops, it's kind of awesome to be in a really famous flop. I mean, it's kind of a poster child for flops.

  

  Lea Thompson
  • Movie
  • Career
  • Interesting

• Is it any wonder why Princes & Kings, Are clowns that caper in their sawdust rings, When ordinary people who are like you and me, Are the builders of their destiny...

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Why
  • Wonder
  • Destiny

• People don't get married to get divorced. Maybe people weren't meant to be together forever.

  

  Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  • People
  • Together
  • Forever

• The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • People
  • State
  • Monsters

• If people need to be informed by lines, then there's no reason why the actor is saying the line except for information for the audience; I think there's something wrong.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Why
  • Information
  • Saying

• You can be covered and be very sexy. It's not what you show; it's what you have in mind, the way you cross your legs, the way you talk to people.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Mind
  • Sexy

• The most powerful people on earth are focus groups.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • People
  • Groups

• I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Daughter

• It certainly left the door open for additional hikes. The statement was a little more hawkish than people anticipated.

  

  Kevin Cronin REO Speedwagon
  • People
  • Statement
  • Hikes

• Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • People
  • Peace

• I am always wandering around in enigmas. There are young people who constantly come to tell me: you, too, are making Op Art. I haven't the slightest idea what that is, Op Art. I've been doing this work for thirty years now.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • People
  • Work
  • Art

• There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Different
  • Song

• Sometimes interviews are fun and good conversations, but stuff like photo shoots and appearances at places where you have to meet a lot of people - I was never really made for this kind of stuff.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Good
  • Fun

• Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Up
  • World
  • Music

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