People Quotes

People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at.

I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.

I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.

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

A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.

Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.

Most people say that as you get old, you have to give up things. I think you get old because you give up things.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it.

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

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

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.

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

When people say 'What are underground comics?' I think the best way you can define them is just the absolute freedom involved... we didn't have anyone standing over us.

You feel sometimes when you hear analysts and knowledgeable people talking about Iran that they fear so much about the survival of the regime, because deep down it's not a legitimate regime, it doesn't represent the will of the people, it's kind of morphed into kind of a military theocracy.

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.