With People Quotes

People should not expect the state to protect them from fraudsters. If we do, we get into the habit of neglecting our own powers of intellectual discernment.

Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.

People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these being that other people find your condition as thrilling and eye-watering as you do yourselves.

I'm a novelist, so I can't write about ideas unless they're attached to people.

Irony ... may be defined as what people miss.

It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them.

At the same time, it's people that are employed - many folks - but they're still not earning enough to get into the middle class.

[People] are ready to go out and vote. There's a difference between being ready and energized and actually going out and voting.

What I hear from people out there is they always say that [Donald Trump] doesn't like us. And so they're energized.

Maybe rock 'n' roll isn't music. Maybe people just need to be reminded that the world ain't the way they think it is.

I signed contracts I didn't think were a good idea but people around me said it was the way forward. It saddens me that I'll never own my first album ever, which sucks.

The people who make history are not the people who make it who are there but the people who make it and then write about it.

The way people see you is the way you really are.

People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree.

One of the great injustices in fiction is that on the whole people with romantic yearnings have romantic faces. But in real life it's not always like that.

I think other people's depression is frightfully dreary, don't you?

When people are feeling insecure about their jobs and there are cuts to be made, it's hard to put up an argument that the film industry needs funding.

In the end, drama is successful if you care about the people.

I think I have a very detailed sense of observation. I am interested in the details of people's lives and what information these details give.

Today, people often make the American mistake of confusing acquaintances with friends. The former are there to share life's pleasures; only the latter should be invited to share one's problems.

No, while most people have been at their unhappiest when in love, it is nevertheless the state the human being yearns for above all.

I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.

You never know people, do you? You can work with 'em for twenty years; you don't know 'em at all.

My philosophy is always, "Let's get the spirit of the character." If people believe in it and the spirit of it, then it will work.

As a director you want to show the truth of people and sometimes that's unflattering, or it's not something that people want to see.

A lot of people think that I grew up in recording studios and knew the whole process, but that was never the case.

A lot of times you just go through life and forget to stop and say: "This is cool." Or: "I'm lucky, I love the people in my life and I love what I'm doing."

I've always been interesting in characters that challenge people and who are not always that easy to like.

What I enjoy is a collaboration. Working with other like-minded people. People who have brilliant minds and big hearts.

New York seems to be absolutely filled with brilliant people.

I just love New York, I love the people. The energy of the place. I really feel energized working here. I've always been made to feel very welcome, and it's a tremendous city.

Why is it that any time government takes over something for a few years, its assumed that people are too incompetent to do it for themselves?

Many people say to me, "I saw [Miral] and it really stayed with me. I woke up the next day and really thought about it, and have been thinking about it for awhile." That was my goal.

Can I find a poetic that can be subversive enough to grab people in some subliminal way, to where they feel that they are altered and have had an experience that belonged to them?

I think people have problems sometimes when things are too general. In fact, they are not really general at all.

I don't think people are terribly interested in young artists who were doing interesting thing, but I don't think people are terribly interested in young artists.

I was always very... impatient about showing my paintings to people.

There are generations of people who have never seen a big plate painting in person. And they don't know what the hell they look like, they don't know what it feels like to stand in a room with them.

I think it was so unfair that people attacked Freida Pinto for being an Indian, playing a Palestinian.

I love playing in front of people. I feel powerful, 'cause I don't have to really say anything - I'm just singing.

To make big steps, you've got to take action yourself and not listen to other people.

A lot of so-called Christian souls are not fine. People need to look inside themselves and look at the lives they're leading and fix themselves before they try to fix other people.

You think you know who you are and then other people have these other ideas.

The most rabidly religious people are the most rabidly evil.

I'm just trying to get rid of all the mystery surrounding me and let people see what I'm thinking. So they can understand me and stop assuming things about me.

I like people wanting to know about me.

People in L.A. don't have to brace themselves against the cold; they slack off permanently, and their brains turn to mush.

Music is so hard. It's a struggle to get people to care. It's hard to make an impact in today's world because people aren't buying records anymore.

People are complex. I'm just showing my complexity.

I don't understand computers. I don't even understand people who understand computers.