With People Quotes

People hang their hopes on you fitting into their CD collection in way that they have made a space for, but I'm playing a longer game than that.

When I use the Internet, it's pretty much strictly for music. Checking out other people's web sites, what's going on, listening to music. It's pretty much a musical thing for me.

Women's bodies are used to sell anything and everything because it works, it grabs people's attention, and advertisers aren't going to stop using something that works.

I don't think you can spend too much time as an artist believing what other people think.

When it's me in my living room, it's pretty pure, and then what gets recorded involves more people, and it keeps escalating from there.

I'd like to do a tour with a bunch of people where it's just them and their guitars. It would be like Lilith Fair - only everyone plays alone, and it would be competitive.

When I was young, I used to need other people's albums and I got very involved with their music and it meant a lot to me.

I don't like being approached by people who look at me too intensely, who needed something from me that I didn't have. I don't represent anything.

I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way through a song that I don't really know anymore.

I prefer to be reclusive and private about my creation and then, once I'm finished, present it to people.

people with romantic illusions find it hard to make a living.

Most people hate cell phone use on trains; I love cell phone use on trains. What do you want to do, read that report on your lap, or hear about your neighbour's worst date ever?

I suppose the difference between baby people and me is that I do not consider smiling while farting 'holding up your end of a conversation.

We live in a nation where corporations are people.

In an odd way, my parents were proud of me. When they saw me do stand-up, I'd see them looking around the room and watch them taking in the people laughing. On some level, that comforted them.

Write a smart joke and people want to talk about it and keep the dialogue going. Also, if you can make someone laugh, it's a pronouncement that they like you on some level.

People being forced to get health care and the insurance companies making millions.

I just want something that is real and that moves people. And just want to make something real.

I'm happy to work in the States because there are so many different and interesting projects. I'll go wherever people want me to work.

There are some of us who are just born with a more adventurous spirit than others. There are lots of people who would rather do the same thing, and she just was never that.

I wanted to see myself as something different, and I wanted to convince people that I was capable of something other than what they would expect from me.

There's only so many times you can read how ugly you are and how much people hate you.

People will feel the way they feel.

What I don't do is try to like become whoever I'm rapping with. The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL.

As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours.

I don't wanna abandon my identity as LL Cool J, but at the same time, I had to figure out how to let people know that I'm really serious about making these movies.

I wanted to work towards the four majors and the Davis Cup. I know to a lot of people it may not mean too much, but to me (Davis Cup) means an awful lot.

I've probably put up with more criticism than a lot of people out there. At the end of the day, you block out everything, especially with your personal life.

Success alone brings expectations. I think that people expect a certain thing from Lloyd - that's music that makes them feel good about their day, even when they're havin' a bad one.

I can't stand people who say 'I told you so.' That's worse than somebody coming up and eating your dinner before you have a chance to sit down.

Paradoxically, in fantasy for young people I was able to express my own deepest feelings and attitudes more than I had ever done in writing for adults.

People in the church should not accept the notion that the public square is off limits to religious values.

If someone offered me a hundred million dollars to make a movie? I would first remind him that there are 850 million people in the world who don't have enough to eat.

I was going to be a teacher and improve the world. Teach people with hooks for hands to fingerpaint, and teach bums to draw happy faces on beads.

Mickey Mouse should be in the public domain by now. What a better world it would be if other people were doing things with Mickey Mouse!

Film is a collection of many mediums and collaboration and you're only as strong as the people you're working with - and everybody owns their mediums.

As you get older, there are different types of roles in people's lives at certain ages.

I'd say people that really inspired me at first were like, Dustin Hoffman, Jim Carrey... serious Jim Carrey though.

I always was flattered when people would say I would do whatever it took for the team. I always thought of myself as that kind of guy.

I just think the more were observed by other people, the less we can observe them in order to play them and find their true condition.

There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.

There are people whose society I find delicious; but when I sit alone and think of them I shudder.

It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.

People have a right to be shocked; the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.

People need to stand up hold hands, talk about alternatives. Alternatives, alternatives, alternatives. And people united will never, ever be defeated.

Tact is for people with too much damned time on their hands.

People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons.

I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.

The world is made by the people who show up for the job.

I have a catch-phrase to describe my plot-generation technique -- 'What's the worst possible thing I can do to these people?'