With People Quotes

The music business has let me touch a lot of people with my talent.

I don't allow anybody to change me. I still walk outta my house in rollers and I take walks. I do not care what people think.

Sometimes the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With independent scripts people can take more challenges.

Some people, when desperate, retreat to pills or hard liquor. I nap.

Racing is bulging at the seams with pure nutball characters, men who can drink more, screw more, fight more, laugh more, joke more, than practically any collection of people in the world.

People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.

We tolerate differences of opinion in people who are familiar to us. But differences of opinion in people we do not know sound like heresy or plots.

Materialism is decadent and degenerate only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that they wallow in it.

Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.

If advertising encourages people to live beyond their means, so does matrimony.

You have cocktails for 250,000 people when millions upon millions are sick.

I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.

I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then.

While housing discrimination and segregation in 2005 still affect millions of people, that's not the way it has to be. Some things can change and should.

The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like.

I hate to sound like Julie the cruise director but it's people that I think about all the time.

If you have written really well, people will swear that it happened to you.

Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.

People see you onstage and, yeah, I'd want to be that guy.I want to be that guy myself very often.

It's always felt natural, because I'm generally very comfortable with people.

The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.

I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different kinds of fees.

There is no god. I am an atheist. It is up to us to become God. We need to be elevated, to become saints. God alienates people from themselves.

If you're a person who complains about everything all the time, then you're just the boy who cried 'wolf.' But if you do it on occasion and about the right reasons, then people listen.

People would love to be rich, but they're looking for the easy way. Who wouldn't want to win the lottery? Just to score.

It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.

All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. They dress up in these chains of gold, cars, girls and this and that, high-heeled shoes.

I suppose young people think football is glamorous - soccer - it's big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari.

I love that India has declared dolphins non-human people with all laws that apply to human. I'm fascinated with the alien-ness of that.

We've got to be outstanding when we start and let other people chase against us.

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.

In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it!

Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect.

If someone down-votes you, or you don't get a like, or someone says something not cool, you project onto it the person or the people who have hurt you the most in life.

My dad's more three-dimensional than Opie Taylor or Richie Cunningham. He even has a temper! He's a real person. But some people are disappointed by that.

I think you have to be respectful to the people who want to talk to you.

A lot of people thought I was going to be a one-hit wonder, so I had that chip on my shoulder.

There are things that change all through your life the way you deal with people, the way you approach problems.

Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.

I really work hard to shape the song so that it's attractive... You don't want to give people the information in an enema.

I'm really much more like Phil Potter from [the 1979 film] Starting Over. People do think I'm the Bandit [from Smokey and the Bandit ], and I'm a lot more serious than that.

Look at the aerospace industry as it was just after the Kennedy talk. We were hiring like crazy. We were trying to get people graduated from college. Hey, you got to go to the program. We need you.

A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life - what people are interested in. That's journalism.

I continue to make paintings of people and their moments in our time because I am of that time. Out of that I hope to make pictures that are timeless.

I have a song called 'Decisions' that features Jamie Foxx, Mary J. Blige, John Legend and Common. It's about people who have made a decision to really stand by you as friends.

It's real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that's not very honest.

You are not going to change the minds of people who are looking for attention.

The life expectancy of people going to Mars may be decreased by the higher level of radiation that they receive.

You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.

Here's what I would want for humanity, because this is what I have come to see is true: it's so simple when we listen to people.