“Society doesn't need that everybody is behaving in the full normal way... like people in a Buddhist monastery... But eccentricity may also connect with the irrational.”
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People Quotes — page 726 of 5018
“It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.”
“It is hard for people who have not lived in Los Angeles to realize how radically the Santa Ana figures in the local imagination. ... The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.”
“New York is full of people . . . with a feeling for the tangential adventure, the risky adventure, the interlude that's not likely to end in any double-ring ceremony.”
“I'm told some people no longer bother to have friends at all - can't fit them in.”
“I'm getting more and more isolated as I get on in years. I think people's insanity starts to slowly take over.”
“Listening is an act of love. When you listen to people, you are communicating non-verbally that they are important to you.”
“I went to this dance with some of my friends and there were kids saying `I know who you are - you`re Aaron Carter!` It doesn`t bother me if people confuse us. I know we`re very different. I am who I am. I don`t wanna say I have a temperbut I do! I kind of sulk and sit there when I`m bitter. I won`t show you, but you can see it. Probably if you bring me Godiva chocolate, I`ll be your friend again!”
“People think I'm against critics because they are negative to my work. That's not what bothers me. What bothers me is they didn't see the work. I have seen critics print stuff about stuff I cut out of the film before we ran it. So don't tell me about critics.”
“Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? Milton Berle could take Laurence Olivier and stick him under the table if he wanted to. And so could I.”
“Web 1.0 was making the Internet for people, Web 2.0 is making the Internet better for companies.”
“If people don't like your work, all the still pictures in the world can't help you and nothing written about you, even oceans of it, will make you popular.”
“People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief.”
“Most people if I like their music, I can get good pictures.”
“Always I try to write about people. People are interested in other people always.”
“I buy DVDs. I don't really buy CDs unless they're for other people.”
“I value being able to go into a record shop and people leaving me alone.”
“Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up.”
“The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant of the background of our planning...they did not realize that it was ridiculous to speak of timing when the clock of history showed that the Negro had already suffered one hundred years of delay.”
“A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.”