With People Quotes

Sometimes acting and politics make a very bad combination. I think that sometimes people take me less seriously in my work for the UN because I am an actor.

I wanted to educate myself about the world and I wanted to know what was happening to people in other countries. I feel now I have only just begun.

Like most people, you listen to yourself on the phone or an answering machine and you're like, 'Ugh.' So to do something with just your voice is hard.

I don't care about what people think about me.

I want everybody to be happy because, if you're happy, you are more open to other people. Don't let misery bring you down.

I collaborate with people because their music talk to me as much as mine talk to them.

Doing an album is like having a business card; to show people what you do. The most important thing to me is the stage. I do albums because I love the stage.

There are people who refuse to say that Africa is a continent, but that doesn't remove the fact that it is a continent.

I never use someone just because they are great musicians. I work with people who have the same kind of feeling towards the music that I do, and the subject that I'm speaking of at that time.

As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.

The people I chose to work with me on this album are there because I have a personal relationship with them.

My favorite thing about L.A. is the sunny breezes that mimic the mindset of the energy in the people.

I'm too fiscally conservative for the Democrats and too socially liberal for the Republicans, like 75% of the American people.

All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

Music has as many roles as people make it.

I mean, playing music at home and writing and hanging out with my guitar is kind of medicinal for me, but when I bring the songs to people on stage, it's very joyous.

Some people's minds we're not going to change. But if we can't, we need to bring more positive voices into the discussion.

I know some of those 'Glee' people, and they can really sing! I wish we could hear them live, because I know some of them and they can really sing like nobody's business.

As soon as you get off stage, that's the most dangerous time for a singer to kiss people because your vocal chords are receptive to any kind of germ.

People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.

Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.

I can't bear to be around people who are bland or bored or uninterested (or to employ them).

One of the most intriguing things in management and in business is the role of storytelling - people need the anecdotes to do the work that they do.

Corporate crime kills far more people and costs taxpayers far more money than street crime.

I don't think people have ever cast me for anything too traditional or midwestern or housewifey.

He's earned a lifetime of peace and happiness, but some people never get what they deserve. That's why there are saints in gutters and sadists in palaces.

I so enjoy it when people assume I'm stupid." "Not that, just very focused on killing.

People grew lazy. They knew too many blessings, and so lost the ability to appreciate what they had

People stay together and stay true only as long as they both want to. And all the promises in the world don’t change the length of time. Nothing comes with a guarantee.

Most people weren’t aware enough to fear the things that could really hurt them.

After people have gone, you forget their faults, and you recall the ideal more than the person.

Yet sometimes being a friend meant letting people do things that hurt, like putting distance between you, just because it made them happy.

For most people, I'm just Alice. But I don't mind. Now, if I were Alice the ax murderer, then I'd hate it.

There are some people who fall in love over and over.

What if people knew they were recycled? Would that change anything?

Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.

Lena was an introvert. She knew she had trouble connecting with people. She always felt like her looks were fake bait, seeming to offer a bridge to people, which she couldn't easily cross.

Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love you, no matter what.

There are two kinds of people in this world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't.

You just have to let people love you in the way they can

Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what precious gifts they would ever get.

Some people think their fingers are toes or claws, but they're actually finger bones.

The "European Union" happens to be composed of people who hate our guts. It is the continent where Moveon.org-style lunatics are the friendly, pro-American types and the rest are crazy Muslims.

That is Obama's signature move: Invent people who are saying ridiculous things and then encourage the audience to laugh at these made-up buffoons.

If you don't hate Clinton and the people who labored to keep him in office, you don't love your country.

NBC's The West Wing is an icon for bad stories; Gitmo is a place where we keep an eye on evil, dangerous people who want to kill us.

David Axelrod says we need to inspire more young people to be journalists? How about inspiring journalists to be journalists?

Right before The Civil War, only 8% of white people owned slaves. Some plantations would have hundreds and hundreds of slaves, but the vast majority of whites didn't have any.

Lawyers tend to be bright people. They tend to be-much more than many journalists I've encountered-sticklers for detail and accuracy, and they have a logical way of arguing.