With People Quotes

I want to be on that thing that people watch while they're eating a quick dinner before they go out, or to cheer them up. I want to make people laugh every day, if I can.

I was not awesome at dancing. For a ballerina, I probably started too late. Plus I enjoyed entertaining people too much.

A government may only govern so long as the people, through their representatives, vote it the money to carry on.

Whenever Canada moves to protect its own industries and people, it is subjected to violent attacks in the U.S. Congress and to threats of economic retaliation.

As the mother of a son with disabilities, I try to keep an eye out for news that affects people in the large community of which he is a part.

People want jobs, but nobody has a recipe for how to get them. And so they are trying different things.

I think it's important that campaigns be aired all the way through, that people aren't voting three weeks before, before debates are held.

I think that, from Vaclav Havel own experience, he knew if we all paid attention to what was going on, the chances were that even the most horrible dictators wouldn't execute people.

That's one of the surprises in the research, that's it's not young people who are smitten with their phones. It's their parents who are not paying attention to them.

Vaclav Havel didn't want to ride around in big black cars. And he had his own car with a little red heart on it. And he loved to go out and talk to the people.

A definitive decision to say you should start people on therapy as soon as you know they're infected.

I think that Election Day is the closest thing we have to a civic sacrament, when people meet their neighbors at the firehouse or the school and they vote at the same time.

If you stimulate the economy by means of a tax cut, the people that you tend to be benefiting are the better off.

I knew about the music. I got that part but I wanted to know the business, I wanted to know about royalties, how people got paid, producers and stuff like that so I read all those books like twice.

I just make the music, and people have the say. When I'm making songs, I never call them hits.

I'm a bad dater - I'm just not good at it. It's so weird dating in this town. It's like high school. I get a lot of people who have their publicist call my agent to ask, 'Is she dating anyone?

How many people have wanted to kill themselves, and have been content with tearing up their photograph!

I don't know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store.

If you're asking me to compare myself to other people, I don't really know what other people are like.

I love to get people to sing and play together.

People don't come to Asheville very often, and they don't know I'm there. I enjoy it. I like it.

In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned.

Many of us believe that 'real artists' do not experience self-doubt. In truth, artists are people who have learned to live with doubt and do the work anyway.

Making art is a rite of initiation. People change their souls.

I don't think about whether people will remember me or not. I've been an ok person. I've learned a lot. I've taught people a thing or two. That's what's important.

No one's more important than people.

Food, like the people who eat it, can be stimulated by wine or spirits. And, as with people, it can also be spoiled.

The shellfish thing is very scary. You have to know the people you buy from and exactly where their wholesalers are getting the fish from.

I'd like for people to be able to go to the universities and get a degree in fine arts-gastronomy.

Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring.

Knowing and understanding the people we love most is a process that continues well beyond their deaths... and is never complete.

But things change, of course, and so do the ways in which people see themselves.

People tend to eat through the cello. They tend to take out the things that make it beautifully cello-y sometimes.

When you're touring, it's somehow hard to focus on other things. I know other people can do it, but I really can't.

I'm trying to get under people's skin in a way. I don't like films that go in one ear and out the other.

I think of how most people only get three weeks of vacation a year. And that, for me, seems like it would be really hard. My life feels like a vacation.

Because of being married, I've met people and experienced all these little things that have nurtured my life - not so much changed it, just nurtured it in a way that's astounding.

The jobs don't get married. The people get married.

Sometimes people think of actors as marionettes - everybody else makes the decisions for us - and, you know, really, making this decision [of which roles to take] is the only thing you lay claim to.

People came up: 'I thought you were 6 ft tall.' I'm average height - 5 ft 8 ins, skinny blonde. One guy says to me 'So, where's the fox from Mystic Pizza?

They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts into people's minds that women can do it. It's not just Kevin Costner, not just Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not just the guys.

Actors think they're far more important than they are, and that can only lead to hurt. People with colossal self-importance have very far to fall.

Seeing other people in pain causes me pain.

I think it's really special to be a part of something that people are still watching or thinking about or interested in, or remember fondly many years later. I don't think it's annoying at all.

So I am happy to have fans, especially if it enables me to keep working. And I am really grateful when people respond to my work.

Every law, every constitution, every regulative decision is based upon what people are discussing in their community. It's based upon our sum knowledge of history and the present.

We have to be careful about applying criminal labels to people until we're very sure.

A lot of people who work for WikiLeaks have the same instinct as me: If you are pushed you push back.

I had had a lot of experience in bringing the Internet to Australia, and I saw that knowledge in the hands of people achieves reform.

Most people believe, more or less, that the value of a human life is the same, irrespective of where on the planet it happens to find itself. But, of course, not every life has the same value for us.