“I like being surrounded by great people.”
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People Quotes — page 755 of 5018
“That's one thing about Hollywood. People don't always want what's real. People always want a little more. So for me, it's a compromise. Here you go, that hyper-reality.”
“I think that I just need to work with great directors and actors, people who are better than me, so that I am challenged.”
“It doesn't matter what is true; it only matters what people believe is true... You are what the media define you to be. [Greenpeace] became a myth and a myth-generating machine.”
“We need writers, we need to tell stories that include minority people, and then we won't have this discussion about Oscar so white.”
“It's no sin to make a critical study of Brazil's reality. A small percentage own land. Most people don't.”
“But other people also 'invite' us to behave like victims, when they complain about the unfairness of life, for example, and ask us to agree, to offer advice, to participate. Be careful. When you join in that game you always end up losing.”
“If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.”
“The universe stands aside for those people who know where they are going.”
“People, since the beginning of time, have always tried to understand the universe through love.”
“Many people in this world are merely playing a role, unaware that there is an Invisible Hand guiding them.”
“We must get rid of the idea of fulfilling what people expect us to do, and start to do what we expect from our lives.”
“We need to create a new revolution, and to do that, don’t waste your life: stop pleasing people, and become who you always wanted to be.”
“I like to be challenged with language, so I start to do texts for my blogs that people can download, can spread. There is no commercial interest behind it. It's only for fun, like doing something that you really enjoy to do. I have texts that I write specifically for the internet and I put them there. I am interested in how readers also respond to the texts that I write to them.”
“People always arrive promptly at the places where they are expected.”
“However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.”
“The Road to Santiago is the road of ordinary people.”
“The extraordinary lies in the path of ordinary people.”
“Love is always the same but people change.”
“I don't get anywhere meditating," she said. "I see people sitting there with their eyes closed, a smile on their lips or else grave-faced and arrogant, concentrating on absolutely nothing, convinced that they're in touch with God or with the Goddess. So instead, let's listen to some music together.”