People Quotes
-
How do we refresh our language? Why do we still use, like, a 150-year-old classification system to talk about people? It's so weird! We still call people black and white?
-
It's a strange game, ... as the Scottish people say.
-
A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was all about Moliere and the Greeks and Brecht and Tennessee Williams.
-
People are so codified - it's sad.
-
If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop because people can't understand the motive.
-
I'm part Filipino, part Japanese, part Chinese, part Malaysian, and part Spanish, and all those people, they love their karaoke. So whenever my family got together, we'd all karaoke.
-
One of the features of being a piano player is playing as an accompanist for other people.
-
In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.
-
Of course it was wrong to want to change people, but what else could you possibly want to do with them?
-
If you do a character that resonates enough, people are always going to see you as that character. It will just be up to me to make choices where I can flex other muscles.
-
I am a socialist; of course I am a socialist. To hold a vision that society can be fundamentally different, to believe that all people can be equal - that is not a new idea.
-
That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. They get hit and half the reaction is your ego is saying, 'I cannot believe that person just lit me up - how humiliating.'
-
I'm not afraid to go completely over the top. A lot of people are scared to seem silly or to embarrass themselves, and I really don't have that at all - I don't mind making a fool of myself. I like to just have fun and really go for it.
-
So, the combination of looking at lots of different people and how they react to each other and how they relate to each other and waiting for that inspiration is the thing that allows me to keep writing.
-
People can sense when someone is fake or real on TV.
-
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
-
I guess when people ask what is the biggest transition to the NBA from college, it is definitely defense and the mental part.
-
People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment.
-
There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They has got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt.
-
I think I've had extremes of being unable to exist outside of my own head, and then I only am existing for other people... There's a middle ground where I should take care of myself and other people.
-
Sometimes I'll be reading something online and just get so frustrated because of what people are saying.
-
Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn't happen. If that's the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.
-
Kids that I went to school with didn't know how to interact with black people like that. There were only, like, three or four black kids in the class.
-
This planet is run by crazy people. Remember what they have to do to get where they are. Their perspective is so narrow, so...brief. A few years. In the best of them a few decades. They care only about the time they are in power.
