With People Quotes

It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.

It turns out a lot of people don't get it. Wikipedia is like rock'n'roll; it's a cultural shift.

A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information.

The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.

Wikipedia is the #5 site on the Web and serves 450 million different people every month - with billions of page views.

When you consider the magnitude of how many people use Wikipedia globally, there is a potential here for really creating some noise and getting some attention in the U.S.

I have my team focused on the front end, working on the user experience, and making sure we have all the wiki-like tools people need to work on the site. We're just cranking away.

I suppose I like to give people something to talk and think about. I can just be the person that kind of put a message in the bottle to see where it ends up.

I suspect most politicians feel overwhelmed because people's lives are a real struggle, full of unhappiness, and you would probably feel powerless to do anything about it.

I've never trained as an actor. I've always thought I'm not a good actor. I've been told I'm not a good actor by a lot of people.

I used to get a lot of people saying 'Oh, you are such a lucky granny.' But the fact of the matter is you can be a grandma at 35 these days.

I like reading, I like boring things, and yet I think people for ages had this image of me that I was on the tube with a chainsaw looking for any likely candidate.

I've never, ever had people being aggressive to me in public or abusing me, and actually quite a lot of men do say to me, 'You're quite good' - though they can't bear to go, 'You're great.'

I like to shock people.

I think some people ramp a side of themselves up for performance purposes.

Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.

Once you get labelled, people expect you to behave within the very narrow confines of that label.

People can forgive each other.

There's something people do to you when they bully you that makes you feel like you're on your own. But don't keep things inside, it's really damaging if you do.

When you cry, you don't look very attractive; you look snotty and blotchy. People seem to manage to cry quite prettily these days, and to me, that smacks of not being very genuine.

People are so different in reality from the picture created of them on TV. So it's all a creation; everything is made up.

I'm sure some cynical people would point to that as the main reason for doing it for a lot of people.

A lot of people do that kind of nostalgia stuff believing that they were very happy in their teenage years, but that's probably just an illusion.

My personal opinion is that you can't be racist towards white people. You can be prejudiced about them, but being prejudiced isn't an illegal act, whereas being racist can be.

cookbooks, I found, are intended for people with time to cook - and, surprisingly often, for people who already know how to cook.

People who are good to each other make each other good.

It's just nice to see people enthusiastic about their tennis and want to learn and improve - for me that's the most important thing - I still love my tennis.

Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people - about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition.

You know, class is like magic. There's nothing there you can point to, it evaporates if you try to analyse it, but it's real and it affects how people behave and makes things happen.

Magic isn't inherently evil. But it does seem to be terribly bad for people.

It's such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I've made people cry or want to slit their wrists, but to make people laugh is a very intoxicating, wonderful thing.

I think the people who cast films tend to think of me in regard to strong women with integrity and a lot of it has been very good.

I just try and do the best with every role I get to do. Hopefully the experience in itself is a good experience and people will want to work with me.

I think that I do separate myself a fair amount. And I don't feel like I am representing women. That's up to however people interpret it once they sort of see it.

That is one of the things about going on tour, that I get to work with some really talented people and it allows me to be able to listen to them as well - and just have fun on stage.

So if you're on tour for eight months, a year... or whatever it is you definitely don't want arguments and I'm happy to say that I've always had a really nice bunch of people around me all the time.

People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say I'm a realist.

Some people don't even notice. "Oh, you sound exactly like you did!" And I say, "OK, if that's what you want to believe, that's fine."

We need to have faith in the people who are giving this movement direction to be smart enough to stay one step ahead of what's coming up next.

Sometimes you've got to shout the truth and wake people up.

You cannot measure the loss of a human life. It's all the things a person was, all their dreams, all the people who loved them, all they hoped to be and could give back to the world.

Have you ever noticed that it takes a textbook dozens of pages to say what normal people can cover fast? Example: What was the full impact of World War II? Clear-cut teenage answer: we won.

A book reaches a different crowd of people. There are 50 different stories of very different individuals participating in their communities either locally or nationally in meaningful ways.

People think of us as an information distributor because that's how they relate to the Internet. But most of the time people already have pretty well established opinions.

When you feel so strongly about something and other people feel equally strongly, you have to feel stronger about it in order to succeed.

I don't want to tell people what I make. It's a lot more than I ever dreamed of as a kid. I never think about it.

I'm more interested in...I'm more of a descendent. I'm more critical. It comes from a different place and nowadays the young people know how to make just light entertainment.

I enjoy going back to work now because cinema is going through an exciting period because young people are now going back to the movie theaters. But things are different though.

It's malarkey. When you tell people that the roof crushing in on your head is not the cause of injury, it's your head hitting the roof, it's laughable.

Of course it does on opening night, but I've never had that devastating stage fright that some people get, but apparently, you can develop it.