With People Quotes

When people quote sketches to me, half the time I don't know what they're talking about so I have to sort of go, aha, yes, oh yep, I remember that and lie my way out of it.

With Stripe, people who previously operated online or offline in a very limited capacity now have all the tools to work like a real online business. That's a very valuable thing.

...it was imaginative people who tended to lie. Lying required making stuff up, and only imaginative people were good at that.

“You don't have much faith in people, do you?” said David. “I don't have much faith in anything,” Roland replied. “Not even in myself.”

I thought if I wanted people to take me seriously, I needed to act serious and not reveal too much of my private life so people could seriously accept me in different things.

People are tired of just yelling at the TV set. They actually are going to turn out and vote.

I want judges on the Supreme Court who will not use that position to impose their personal policy preferences or political agenda on the American people.

I wonder whether there is such a thing as critical art. I suppose there are portraits of people who could destroy you.

If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.

People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.

You can only really judge yourself in comparison to other people. How bad you are, but you're not as bad as someone else. So it's degrees of losing.

Hollywood is just a bunch of people going around in Learjets to other people asking them if they've got any money? Well, they might have if they didn't spend it all on jets.

Sometimes what I'm looking for is the thing that will help renew people's interest in a writer that they may have written off as not their kind of writer.

The fact that somebody's telling you a story about people who didn't exist doesn't make the experience of the story any less real in your heart and mind.

I make up stories that take place in real space with real people. If I could convert this into a technique for experimental novels, I might really be onto something.

People want you to play the songs they know. I try not to reflect too much, and I don't really like to focus too much on myself.

As an artist, you always have to be growing. You don't just want to do what you already know people like.

People involved in my personal life make fun of me a lot for not being jaded.

This is the funny thing about me. People think John just comes up with all the ideas. I'm honored. People think I have a big old brain, but actually I am the sum of the people I work with.

Diagnoses exist to help get people services they need - but there's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill.

I don't like to say, "Oh, I don't like this kind of music." I like to listen to it and try to see what people who like it get out of it.

Kayfabe is kind of a code. To break kayfabe is to let people know that the punch was not real and that the match was scripted.

Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something. I believe in mental health care, but when we call people "crazy," we exclude them from our circle.

If my songs are being listened to between any other songs, that is awesome, and I'm glad people are getting something out of them.

Our [former] governor [Pat McCrory] was supposed to be a moderate, but he found himself beholden to people who have much more draconian ideas. I think he assumed this stuff flew under the radar.

I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.

In death metal, a lot of guys are Eddie Van Halen disciples, but they take his style to really expressionistic places. It's a real pleasure for me to hear people pushing their craft.

I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice.

It makes me envious of anybody who can say truly that they don't care what anybody thinks of what they do, because I care a lot about the people who like my stuff.

Labor for a lot of people has a negative connotation. But not for me. I always want to be working.

Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted to hear.

I grew up around some people whose parents toured a lot: tough on the marriage, tough on the kids.

Granted, terrorism is a real problem everywhere. But you can't prevent it. Terrorists are nutcases who are hellbent on killing people for ideology. That's pretty hard to stop.

People forget that public people and celebrities, they too have to go to the bathroom and get divorced.

That's just the way people's brains work. If you want to talk about something, you have to reduce it to a form that can be understood. That's one of the reasons I'm not good about boiling down music.

I think cartoons are important. Tell me that you don't like cartoons, and I think there's something wrong with you. I don't understand why people don't like cartoons.

There is a tendency of the American people to give those who are elected an opportunity to carry out their policies and programs.

It's good to be around people who see [photography] as a reasonable enterprise when everyone in the neighborhood may think it's ridiculous. (On the benefit of teaching photography)

It's harder to gain relevance or traction. But I'm of the opinion that if something's really good - not pretty good, but really, really good - people will hear about it.

Adults don't get nearly the attention and support the kids do, maybe because they're not as cute or because people forget that autism is lifelong. But it is.

Social interactions can be enormously challenging for people on the spectrum. That's part of the reason that unemployment among autistic adults hovers near 80 percent.

In certain savage tribes in New Guinea, they put the old people up in the trees and shake them once a year in the spring; if they don't fall out they let them live another year.

People do not choose a career; the career envelopes them.

It's easy to forget how central the French people are in everything we mean when we say Europe.

U.S.A. is the speech of the people

In the last twenty-five years a change has come over the visual habits of Americans . . . From being a wordminded people we are becoming an eyeminded people.

The conscience of a people is their power.

Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people's wrongs his own.

If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, 'tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.

If you think about it, fiction is nothing more than gossip about the people you've made up.