People Quotes · Page 919

“Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship.”

— Bryant McGill

Keeping young people away from Shakespeare is like removing a link to their humanness.

— Tim Crouch

Addiction is not just for bad people or scumbags -- it's a universal disease.

— River Phoenix

I'm just not convinced that the British people I know and love are interested in revolution.

— David Lammy

I put up my Christmas tree entirely too early. I'm one of those people.

— Rachel Boston

I think for a lot of people, when you're starting something new, everyone is so excited about it.

— Angela Yee

People want to hear what I have to say and respect what I say.

— Jennifer Capriati

I'm just excited I get to sing all the time. There's nothing but open ears of people wanting to listen.

— Delta Goodrem

That's the test of street art – to see if anybody stopped. People would cross out ones they didn't like and would…

— Jenny Holzer

You don't simply bundle people onto trucks and drive them away...I prefer to advocate a positive policy, to create, in effect, a…

— Ariel Sharon

I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and…

— Aaron Patzer

Surrounding myself with people I enjoy being with made the sessions effortless. Everyone came prepared and ready to play. All were great…

— Stanley Clarke

I enjoy spending time with other awakened people and feeling the shared vibration of that, whereas just fun for its own sake…

— Arjuna Ardagh

In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control…

— Richard Rohr

I'm a perfectionist, so I can drive myself mad - and other people, too. At the same time, I think that's one…

— Michelle Pfeiffer

All organizations start with a structure that looks like a dynamic solar system. They can be very fast, agile. They attract people…

— John P. Kotter

I enjoy being me; I always have done. I've seen people where it rules their lives, you know, who want to be…

— Adele

As a rule, I think people in L.A. are interested in any writer who brings a different skill set and experiences. There's…

— Jon Lovett

I felt when I was elected that the most important task on this island [Ireland] was to extend the hand of friendship…

— Mary Robinson

Think of how much we stress about living up to our "potential," and how it creates anxiety and terror in people; in…

— Emily Susan Rapp

I feel that at this point in our country's history, it is important that we not reverse marriage equality, that we not…

— Hillary Clinton

After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old…

— Robert Dale Owen

Thinking means concentrating on one thing long enough to develop an idea about it. Not learning other people's ideas, or memorizing a…

— William Deresiewicz

People build continuity into their life: Places, friends and goals. We go to work on Monday with plans for Friday night, enroll…

— Nathaniel Fick

Rendition is just sending people abroad to be tortured.

— Noam Chomsky

This human condition and people's stories. That's what I love. The other thing is traveling.

— Fisher Stevens

I have a unique perspective on things that apparently makes people laugh.

— Matt Rife

Most people don't know how hard it is to be a success, says the successful failure.

— Vikrant Parsai

Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.

— Nathaniel Branden

My parents were real people. They didn't put on airs or false faces. They were what they were.

— John Carter Cash

Every player is different and lets form and talk affect them, some people won't.

— Wayne Bridge

I just try to stay focused and show the goodness in me to people.

— Park Bo-gum

You have to be courageous to not spend money, ... and we don't have many people who have that courage..

— Tom Coburn

Not many people get up after a setback or two. But those who do make the impossible come true.

— Nuseir Yassin

It's so easy for shows to be gritty and handheld and shaky and really tight in people's faces.

— Cary Fukunaga

If we know God is for us, then it shouldn't matter how we feel, or what other people think of us.

— Joyce Meyer

The five million people who watch cable news are the political nation, the people who really care.

— David Frum

I believe that you become a better actor only when you work with people far better than you are.

— Rana Daggubati

When I paint to please other people I tend to lose the free spirit creative edge.

— Ted Martinez

I love people of all ethnicities, as long as they're not ugly.

— Daniel Tosh