With People Quotes

As much as I am one for real human interaction, I also want to make a show that's entertaining and that people want to see.

I think you hear a lot of people say 'I support the troops' and all of that, but I really feel deeply that I do.

I love movies that are saying things that people might find odd at times. I don't find them odd at all. They give me comfort.

As a producer, you have an opportunity to see the whole and bring people together.

As an actor, no matter what, you're at the whim of so many other people all the time.

I love when people on Twitter give advice.

I'll be honest, I like shooting 'New Girl.' I like the people. The show is still new to me. I've never done TV like this before.

You know, what 'New Girl' is doing is they're bringing in really cool people. These are home-run people who aren't your typical guest-star-type people.

Everybody has their different tastes with television - there are some characters people like, some characters people hate.

Some people have concerns about what it means to leave our responsibilities to robots. I think to some degree in every family, you've got siblings who disagree over the care for their parents.

When you go into the studio or get up on the stage with people who have more experience or knowledge, you learn.

It is important for me to truly understand the people I am portraying and their struggles, in order to give an honest performance.

I stay active and choose to associate myself with like-minded people.

I do look at songwriting as a lot of work. I don't overintellectualize music as a special medium that only some people deserve to do. I think it's something you do if you put the work in.

I'm realistic. Getting to everybody is not the goal here. The people you can affect in any way - that's who you want to get to.

To us, there was Bob Dylan, and there was dad. As for what he meant to other people, that was never glorified in our house. There were no accolades there, no gold records.

Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in.

People have to want to change before there's any chance of helping them do so.

If I started at 13, by the time I was 14 I was already good enough to play in front of people. I started off playing drums when I was 5, so playing in front of people didn't matter - not a problem.

The people who invented race, who grouped us together as "black," were inventing and categorizing their ability to do something vicious and wrong.

In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other.

I know that the fantastic amount of profit that people want to make on anything is damaging. And that none of us seem able to resist it.

I've come to see that I'm saying something that people generally do not want to hear.

On their way to freedom, some people find riches, some people find death.

I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlotte Bronte the way people want to be a princess.

The story of dance in the Western world is as much an alternative vision of the events of history as is the folk history told for generations by primal people.

I do believe in angels and I believe that a lot of these people I'm supposed to meet. The photograph serves as evidence; it causes me to reflect on when I met this person.

It is astonishing that in a country so devoted to the individual, so many people should be afraid to speak.

Those kids aren't dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don't get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.

History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.

All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.

Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.

I really do believe in the New Jerusalem. I really do believe that we can all become better than we are. I know we can. But the price is enormous and people are not yet willing to pay it.

James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them.

People can cry much easier than they can change, a rule of psychology people like me picked up as kids on the street.

how can one respect, let alone adopt, the values of a people who do not, on any level whatever, live the way they say they do, or the way they say they should?

I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life.

It was as though we were a picture, trapped in time: this had been happening for hundreds of years, people sitting in a room, waiting for dinner, and listening to the blues.

I think young people ought to seek the experience that is going to knock them off center.

[The church's] job is to provide permanent solace and spiritual leadership to the people as a whole, whatever their government at the moment, so long as it stays within the bounds of moral decency.

Contrary to what people think, I slave over my books.

Education teaches people how to think, while propaganda teaches people what to think.

It is clear enough by now to most people that the camera never lies is a foolish saying. Yet it is doubtful whether most people realize how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is.

Everyone's life is a mess. Everyone's. We all make mistakes . . . and not just little slip-ups. Major mistakes that hurt us and other people.

It is strange how the presence of additional people can make you feel more alone.

This is a cliché, but never listen to anyone who says “You can’t do that”. Those are usually the people who can’t do it. Not you.

It's easy to get anonymous people to hate you. Have an opinion. Be creative. Be yourself.

A lot of times, people send me emails, and then I forget about them, or I never respond to them, or I respond to them weeks later.

I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers.

Requirements are for people who want to be unhappy. Because it’s your rules or the universe’s rules. The universe is going to win. Every time.