With People Quotes

The sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it.

The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population.

I was always drawn to music. It consumed my thoughts and when I realized I could make people feel something through music that is all I wanted to do.

Where did this commandment come from in relation to polygamy? It also came from God... When I see any of our people, men or women, opposing a principle of this kind... I consider them apostates.

The obligation to amuse and instruct myself was entirely my own, and people who didn't know that were childish people, to be avoided if possible. Certainly not to be trusted.

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

If governments encourage people to become more spiritual there will be a reduction in healthcare costs.

A lot of people are willing to pray or to put in work, but they're not willing to take true risks.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

Just because I am increasingly bored by sabermetric arcana doesn't mean anyone else has to be; it remains good for people who like that sort of thing.

I tell people it's like shopping for a car.People are taking candidates out for a test drive, seeing what they like.

This is partly a function of approval ratings. People pay attention [to polls] and start saying, 'Lets take a more independent tack.' It is frankly self-interest, self-preservation.

Playing President Clinton (in Primary Colors) was risky and challenging. Some people thought Saturday Night Fever was risky, because no one had danced in movies for years.

I actually do like playing off-beat people. I think it's more fun.

A lot of those people aren't their best salesmen. They're the opposite of a salesperson and I think there's something attractive about that.

It's nice to work with people who know and trust you.

Cities aren't like people; they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver and out to sea.

Bands will always need studios. The more people there are recording at home, the more people there will be who are going to need a studio.

I'm a collector, a tinkerer, and a tweaker, like a lot of people, and recording equipment is really easy to fetishize.

There is definitely a nostalgia, and I am very sentimental, so I don't begrudge people for having sentimental feelings towards vinyl.

Higher energy prices act like a tax. They reduce the disposable income people have available for other things after they've paid their energy bills.

The cinema is - in Jean Cocteau’s famous words - ‘a dream that can be dreamt by many people at the same time’.

You won't now tell people you're in your 60′s Indeed, you'll have to pretend, no end That you're close to being 70 Let me be the first to agree, old friend

The common mistake that business people make is they're going to get drive-by business...Only gas stations are helped

You bring in gambling into a major population base, and the more people you have going into a casino, the more people you have hooked on gambling

For every three machines, you lose two jobs out of the surrounding economy because people are dumping their money on gambling

Bankruptcies will be up 18 to 42 percent around racinos areas tracks as people lose their money

People still come to Baltimore and say, "I didn't realize you made documentaries."

I'm not a separatist, I'm friends with some people who voted for Trump, not many. Nobody has the nerve to tell me, but a few have.

I have no interest in cars. I have a plain, used Buick. I could run over 10 people, and you wouldn't be able to describe my car.

People who want to act rich when they're upper-middle class. They try too hard.

Valentine's Day is my mother's birthday. If I'm wildly in love, I've sent people chicken hearts, which seems to appeal to the kind of person that I've been in love with.

It reinforced everything that I believe. I am an optimist. I believe in the goodness of people.

I think that young people understand me perfectly. I think that's the luckiest thing about my career, that I get older and they get younger, and it didn't stop with my generation.

Fame is protection if you go to a scary place. Fame is fun. A lot of people don't say anything and you don't know they know who you are.

I don't think I had a bad influence on anybody. I made people feel better about themselves.

Baltimore never changes much. People aren't impressed by anything. It's great; it's not a trendy town.

Time marches on and I don't care how people watch my movies as long as they see them. I don't care if they're on their phone.

If you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do ; try to be shocking and dirty.

Humor is how you change people's opinions, and if you can make someone laugh, they'll listen, even if they hate you.

And I seek people who break rules with happiness — and not bringing pain to themselves.

I'm sure we can talk things out like civilized people.

The only problem with conjuring people is they insist on getting paid, unlike a writer who would do a reading for nothing.

I also wanted people to know that football actually started in China almost 3000 years ago.

All that matters is the pressure you put on yourself. External pressures cause people to choke. While you can't control what happens to you, you can control how you react.

Hardship brings people closer together if you share it.

Congress in the immigration law gives the president the power to restrict or suspend the entry of people he may deem appropriate.

People sometimes have a very hard time accepting change.

I don't think it's you that changes with success - it's the people around you who change. Because of your new status, they change in relation to you.

People are hypocrites. If you ask them what they want to see on TV, they'll tell you they want better quality programming. And then what do they watch? 'Gilligan's Island.'