With People Quotes

I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

There is no reason at all why there aren't enough people to guard New Orleans and to help stabilise Baghdad.

The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved.

I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come.

My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.

When you fall ill, people send you CDs. Very often, in my experience, these are by Leonard Cohen

I'm not very impressed by people who yell "traitor" and "communist" and other less printable things. I don't like it.

I'd like to prove to other people that it's not the end of everything to be diagnosed with cancer.

Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just variations on certain themes.

Do not kick people when they are down because you will surely fall right beside them.

People finally have permission to be human in the context of their work. That's the real Internet story.

People roll their eyes at the idea of Kanye West running for president. I do not.

There's a suspicion always about politicians. The suspicion level is really elevated and it just feels like people do not trust their institutions.

If people don't believe the source, then we aren't going to change their minds. We just won't.

For me, I focus on trying to get it right and be as fair as possible. There's not much else I can do. People will believe what they want - facts be damned.

Moses should have said "Let my people go. Please."

There is an innate decorum in man, and it is not fair to thrust Truth upon people when they don't expect it. Only the very generous are ready for Truth impromptu.

I'm very happy where 3-D is going, which is that it's becoming a choice - and thankfully, most people are still choosing 2-D.

It's not that often that you get to have a large commercial success and then have something that you want to do that you can excite people about.

A lot of times, magazines end up presenting me as some type of weirdo, but I make my music for everyday people.

Really! Between you and Eragon, I seem to spend most of my time among the Varden healing people to silly to realize they need to avoid getting chopped into tiny little pieces

If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.

I've done quite a few adverts. I've also done some presenting and acting work in Spain. I did a lot of Spanish education videos for people wanting to learn English.

Areas with lots of college students/young people can be a minefield, so I tend to avoid them.

That whole country, Malaysia has a history of telling other countries back off, we'll do our business. They're pretty stubborn bunch of people. So they will do what they have to do.

I get pretty impatient with people who are able-bodied but are somehow paralyzed for other reasons.

Nothing of any consequence happens unless people get behind an idea. It begins with an individual and they share the idea with more individuals-and eventually it becomes a movement.

People may never understand this - and perhaps I should give up caring whether they do or not - but the idea of me playing Superman is so far away from what I was brought up to aspire to.

I encourage young people to refrain from putting themselves in dangerous situations in the name of validating themselves sexually.

I am one of those people, and I may be personally biased, who wishes that I had some place to come out of the closet besides a bar.

I think the American people out in the heartland have a different view than the people in Washington.

The thing I've learned traveling through the United States is that the people in each city are usually awesome, it's generally the 'talking heads' that give us trouble.

I have been accused of sleeping with people, I hadn't met yet.

And people get so weird about mental illness, you follow the rules! You don't up a heart patient on a roller coaster, you don't put a mental patient on a hunting trip with you!

We don't have home movies in my family. We have people's exhibit A.

So what if your custom car shop tanks and you've gotta take a crappy job at an auto parts store, dealing with ignorant, pushy people. I'm okay with that, 'cause I'm an ignorant, pushy people person.

We're looking for answers in a landfill instead of looking to people who bring the light.

People think that my favorite roles to do are villains, but I find comedy to be the most challenging and rewarding.

I don't usually get to play fathers or grandfathers or uncles. Now that I'm older, maybe I can play people closer to myself. I'd like that.

I don't have a lot of hobbies. I don't play golf. I don't have any children. Things that occupy people's time. I just try to take jobs.

Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it's not offensive, it's funny?

I play a lot of, maybe a little bit, cartoonish people. I've been a Bond villain, and I play a lot of villains, people who want to take over something.

I play disturbed people a lot, but always with a bit of distance or tongue-in-cheek. Most of the villains I play are essentially harmless.

I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.

That's what friends are for. The people who aren't in your life 'cause they're related, or hot for you. They just love you.

We do need the federal government to share information with us. We need local governments to increase supply. We need affordable places for people to live.

I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted.

I think a lot of little girls like riding, but sadly not that many people live in a place where it's an option.