“A lot of people have nothing very well organized, and a lot of people have nothing, very well organized.”
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People Quotes — page 792 of 5018
“Some people have to move, physically, to "get" something. But if you're stuck in a chair, that's not your limitation - it's simply not an optimal condition for you.”
“Why do people complain that there's no time to get their work done? Because there is more work to do than the work they think they have to do.”
“People should take every opportunity they can to save money because it really adds up, and the best way I know to do that is to make your savings automatic.”
“I'm regarded quite asexually by a lot of people. And the people that understand me the best are nearer to what I understand about me.”
“People will keep the TV on even if a show is on that they hate - because, unfortunately, they've been programmed to do that.”
“The world that I inhabit in reality is probably very different world than the one people expect that I would be in. It is quite sedate. It's far removed from a lot of what they would feel to be the limousine traveling rock existence, or whatever.”
“People don't get a chance to think, "Why am I a consumer?" Because the decisions come at them so fast and furiously, they're not [even] given time to think, I am a consumer.”
“But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.”
“I went mainstream in a major way with the song "Let's Dance." And what I found I had done was put a box around myself. It was very hard for people to see me as anything other than the person in the suit who did "Let's Dance," and it was driving me mad - because it took all my passion for experimenting away.”
“I'm still younger than Jagger... Most people are.”
“The people who don't know so much about me regard me more sexually.”
“The coming together of people I find obscene as a principle. It is not human. It is not a natural thing as some people would have us believe.”
“A lot of people provide me with quotes. They suggest all kinds of things to say and I do, really, because I'm not very hip at all.”
“The underground went really underground. Grand Funk, and all these people man are the moderate's choice of music. Underground is Yoko Ono, The Black Poets. These people scare the hell out of most freaks. They laugh at Yoko Ono, but it's the whole cliché.”
“People who had been treated inhumanly, not given a chance to secure any foot on any ladder - and all the social mores were suddenly abandoned.”
“When I was going through those very fast changes, I think it was terribly important to me that I was seen to be inventive. I think that was the characteristic of my work that I wanted people to see.”
“I don't believe in proper cinema; it doesn't have the strength of television. People having to go out to the cinema is really archaic. I'd much rather sit at home.”
“You have to understand, writing a novel gets very weird and invisible-friend-from-childhood-ish. Then you kill that thing, which was never really alive except in your imagination, and you're supposed to go buy groceries and talk to people at parties and stuff.”
“Or I can choose to force myself to consider the likelihood that everyone else in the supermarket's checkout line is just as bored and frustrated as I am, and that some of these people probably have much harder, more tedious or painful lives than I do, overall.”