Quotes on People

I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.

Author: Aaliyah

I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing.

Author: Aaliyah

I tell kids that people will let them down and people will hurt them. But Jesus Christ will never let them down and never hurt them.

Author: Willie Aames

It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.

Author: Willie Aames

Photography helps people to see.

Author: Berenice Abbott

There are many talented people.

Author: Paula Abdul

When people expect me to go right, I'll go left. I'm unpredictable.

Author: Paula Abdul

Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.

Author: Paula Abdul

I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.

Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.

Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA.

Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.

Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.

Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America.

Author: John Abizaid

But all that having been said, you can't, in a city of a million people like Karbala, or 5 million like Baghdad, you can't be in all places at all times.

Author: John Abizaid

I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people.

Author: John Abizaid

You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.

Author: Creighton Abrams

Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do.

Author: Dan Abrams

I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance.

Author: Dan Abrams

I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.

Author: Dan Abrams

But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people.

Author: Dan Abrams

There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.

Author: Elliott Abrams

I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent.

Author: Floyd Abrams

I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in.

Author: Floyd Abrams

No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden and win libel suits, and in those cases I think they ought to win.

Author: Floyd Abrams

It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.

Author: Floyd Abrams

If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't learn.

Author: Floyd Abrams

When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.

Author: M. Abrams

When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.

Author: Marcel Achard

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

Author: Chinua Achebe

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

Author: Chinua Achebe

I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.

Author: Kathy Acker

Traveling around I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know.

Author: Kathy Acker

I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.

Author: Kathy Acker

Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.

Author: Gary Ackerman

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.

Author: Lord Acton

I didn't get into acting to have a moment, I got into it because of people who've inspired me, like Judi Dench, Holly Hunter, and Jodie Foster.

Author: Amy Adams

I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.

Author: Amy Adams

As an actress people always tease me like: if there's anything you can do to make yourself unattractive you will do it.

Author: Amy Adams

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.

Author: Ansel Adams

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

Author: Ansel Adams

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

Author: Ansel Adams

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Author: Douglas Adams

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Author: Douglas Adams

When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.

Author: Gerry Adams

The most common trouble with advertising is that it tries too hard to impress people.

Author: James Adams

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Author: John Adams

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

Author: John Adams

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

Author: Samuel Adams

The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

Author: Samuel Adams

Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.

Author: Scott Adams

Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.

Author: Scott Adams

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.

Author: Scott Adams

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

Author: Joseph Addison

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

Author: Joseph Addison

Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people.

Author: George Ade

I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me.

Author: Naima Adedapo

Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.

Author: Kate Adie

My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as fast as.

Author: Kate Adie

I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people.

Author: Isabelle Adjani

To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention.

Author: Isabelle Adjani

I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish people could hear them and stuff but they'll do pretty good.

Author: Hasil Adkins

The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well.

Author: Alfred Adler

In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.

Author: Felix Adler

Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.

Author: Renata Adler

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.

Author: Theodor Adorno

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

Author: Theodor Adorno

Many other countries in this world are in a difficult situation, and all the Thai people are probably worried about the fate of Thailand: whether the country would survive or not.

Author: Bhumibol Adulyadej

It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people.

Author: Bhumibol Adulyadej

It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are considered to be Thai have traveled abroad in a great number.

Author: Bhumibol Adulyadej

I have been extremely touched by these signs of affection on the part of all the Thai people.

Author: Bhumibol Adulyadej

I am concerned because even in the past two years that were the jubilee years, I have seen evident signs which show that the people are still in great difficulties, and there are things that still need to be remedied and looked after in many areas.

Author: Bhumibol Adulyadej

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

Author: Aesop

Nobody I represent is pretending to be the pope or a role model for young people. People have to live their lives. They have the right to smoke if they want.

Author: Ben Affleck

Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are.

Author: Ben Affleck

You have to look also to the media, where you have a vast majority of the loudest and most influential political voices in America media from people who came from the entertainment world.

Author: Ben Affleck

Why can't people just say they were moved? Why do they have to say it's sappy?

Author: Casey Affleck

People should try eating no animal products for just ONE DAY a week.

Author: Casey Affleck

First of all, let me say, 1:15 in the morning, for 20,000 people to still be here, I wasn't the winner, tennis was. That's awesome. I don't know if I've ever felt so good here before.

Author: Andre Agassi

Well, you know, I've bonded with a lot of people over the years, you know. We played the same tournaments year after year and we go back to the same place and many times the seats have been full and that has meant the world to me for sure.

Author: Andre Agassi

Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn't want to see it for myself but I certainly didn't want millions of people to see it.

Author: Andre Agassi

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

Author: Spiro Agnew

All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

Author: Spiro Agnew

It's been quite a roller coaster ride, but I've grown and learned a lot about myself. The greatest thing is being able to interact with fans and touch people's lives... for that I give thanks.

Author: Christina Aguilera

Certain people want to see me solely as a pop act, but there are many different sides to Christina Aguilera besides the pop girl.

Author: Christina Aguilera

Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.

Author: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others.

Author: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.

Author: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

It's a whole team of people working 24 hours around the clock to make me look like this.

Author: Clay Aiken

In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.

Author: Clay Aiken

People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act the same way.

Author: George Aiken

True conservation provides for wise use by the general public. The American people do not want our resources preserved for the exclusive use of the wealthy. These land and water resources belong to the people, and people of all income levels should have easy access to them.

Author: George Aiken

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

Author: Howard Aiken

One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.

Author: Alvin Ailey

Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.

Author: Alvin Ailey

It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.

Author: Alvin Ailey

Nothing personal; I just don't have people over.

Author: Alvin Ailey

I am very proud to be a part of the Livestrong Foundation. I am maybe only a member but I give everything I can to be sure that people understand that cancer is a disease for everybody - not only in France, in Europe, in Asia, it is all over the world. We must fight together, we must make something to fight the cancer, we must Livestrong.

Author: Greg Akcelrod

Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.

Author: Todd Akin

I made the film to bring the story of Islam, the story of 700 million of people, to the West.

Author: Moustapha Akkad

The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.

Author: Bashar al-Assad

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

Author: Edward Albee

Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.

Author: Edward Albee

I don't think anyone has exhausted the range of sound possible in a conventional rock band, but people do become slaves to their own easiest techniques.

Author: Steve Albini

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.

Author: Mitch Albom

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

Author: Madeleine Albright

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

Author: Alan Alda

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.

Author: Alan Alda

Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.

Author: Brian Aldiss

The International Brigades provided a shock force while the Republic trained and organized an army from an assemblage of individuals. The Spanish people knew they were not fighting alone.

Author: Bill Alexander

The news of the open military help to Franco from Hitler and Mussolini, and the heroic resistance of the people of Madrid, Barcelona and the big cities fired a widespread wish to help the Republic and its people.

Author: Bill Alexander

We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.

Author: Lamar Alexander

There's this huge number of desperate people.

Author: Lloyd Alexander

Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.

Author: Lloyd Alexander

Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.

Author: Hannes Alfven

I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them.

Author: Muhammad Ali

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

Author: Muhammad Ali

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.

Author: Muhammad Ali

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

Author: Muhammad Ali

Being on Disney, a lot of young people look up to me.

Author: Tatyana Ali

Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.

Author: J Allard

It is our people who are sitting in the dark because of these cowardly and treacherous attacks, not our occupiers.

Author: Iyad Allawi

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

Author: Fred Allen

Television is the triumph of machine over people.

Author: Fred Allen

Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.

Author: Fred Allen

A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.

Author: Fred Allen

A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

Author: Fred Allen

Everything is more complicated than it looks to most people.

Author: Frederick Allen

It's such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I've made people cry or want to slit their wrists, but to make people laugh is a very intoxicating, wonderful thing.

Author: Joan Allen

At USC, if you're running back there, and you do gain you over 1,500 yards, people see you as a candidate, but not one of the top ones.

Author: Marcus Allen

Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves.

Author: Peter Allen

People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.

Author: Ralph Allen

Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show.

Author: Rick Allen

Just the same way I'd say a prayer before going onstage, taking that even further and using the drum to inspire people. And using that as a vehicle for the intention.

Author: Rick Allen

Before my accident I was a little too... selfish and self-absorbed and for me, to now be at the place where I can kinda give back and inspire people. I'm blessed. I'm really blessed.

Author: Rick Allen

If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.

Author: Steve Allen

It's very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I'm not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef.

Author: Ted Allen

I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.

Author: Ted Allen

Thom is one of those wonderful people to cook for because he absolutely loves it, just loves it. He loves to eat and drink and he'd be a great guest at any dinner party.

Author: Ted Allen

Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets.

Author: Ted Allen

Maine's long and cold winters may help keep our State's population low, but our harsh climate also accounts for what is unique and valuable about our land and our people.

Author: Tom Allen

I am confident that the British people will not be intimidated by terrorism.

Author: Tom Allen

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

Author: Woody Allen

I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

Author: Woody Allen

I don't think children are any more resilent than anyone else. They're just people with little bodies.

Author: Kirstie Alley

For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression.

Author: Kirstie Alley

As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.

Author: Svetlana Alliluyeva

I want to play in a place people want to hear me.

Author: Luther Allison

I want people to recognize Luther Allison when I play.

Author: Luther Allison

I focused on how these people became how they were.

Author: Luther Allison