“People who think they know usually stopped thinking long ago.”
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People Quotes — page 1079 of 5018
“People who think in absolutes usually don't listen to anyone but themselves. They resist new ideas and try to preserve the status quo.”
“Why would people have confidence in a female director when there are so few?”
“Yeah, I screamed in Daniel Radcliffe's face. We were both doing Letterman. I grabbed him by the shoulder. Of course, I'm in 6-inch heels. That makes me 6-foot-4. I'm towering over him, saying, 'I love Harry Potter!' His security people were nodding to each other - should we go?”
“When people get more me, they'll hate me.”
“I'm from Kentucky. I used to be very personable and make eye contact and smile at people, and now all I do is look down. When I'm at dinner and one person after another keeps interrupting to take pictures, it's like, "I can't live like this."”
“I just think it should be illegal to call someone fat on TV... Because why is humiliating people funny?”
“I take from people all the time. I didn't ever go to acting classes or anything. You can just watch people.”
“I want people to have less me.”
“I mean, if we're regulating cigarettes and sex and cuss words, because of the effect they have on our younger generation, why aren't we regulating things like calling people fat?”
“People are funny. They often don't mean to be, and that's what makes it even more endearing.”
“If it true that perception is reality, then what is shown on TV is that part of the collective consciousness known as Public Knowledge, that is, the fragment of reality which the mass of people acknowledge to be true.”
“What are friends for? They are the ultimate reflection of yourself. Always surround yourself with people who inspire you and return the favor by giving them the best of you.”
“You should understand that private faith does not force public decisions. That's how you work at compromise. I haven't given up what I believe, but I live in community - in a city, state, nation, and world - with people who don't believe what I believe. That doesn't make them defective or inferior.”
“It's the off-the-court spotlight in terms of having people look at you in terms of analyzing every little thing you do in your life, or having less privacy in your day-to-day activities, that's an area I need to get more accustomed to.”
“From the sense of being an ambassador for Jesus Christ, hopefully, through my story and through all the improbables and the miracles that happened in my life, people are inspired or at least a little bit warmer to the idea of exploring who Jesus is.”
“I just want people to respect the privacy of my relatives in Taiwan. ... They need to live their lives as well.”
“People started saying, 'Oh you know, he's quicker than he looks', and I'm like, 'What does that mean? Do I look slow, or I'm not really sure what that means.”
“A lot of people in my life are getting sick or potentially going to get sick from tobacco.”
“I am more of a conservationist, myself. And people have come to me and said, "Wow, you're an African-American conservationist!" And my response is, "No, I'm a conservationist who happens to be black."”