“Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely.”
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People Quotes — page 936 of 5018
“Stupid people do stupid things, but people who are smart enough can do something really stupid.”
“I think paranoia goes from generation to generation. It's convenient to imagine that there's a few people controlling everything, that way it's manageable and small. But that's not life, life is messy.”
“I don't want to appear hostile, like I'm hostile to L.A. or that I feel that the people don't appreciate jazz. I don't think it's that. I think it's something more. It's something a little bit more complicated than that.”
“All my life people have called me gifted. Extraordinary. Blessed. I had all these dreams to become something. Someone. No one ever said I couldn't. No one ever said Killer.”
“People say there's a book in everyone but I'm not sure there is. There might be a pamphlet in me.”
“Awards are always a pleasant surprise. They are the candy-floss parts of our job - a lovely added extra to attract people's attention. The bottom line is that you want to sell tickets.”
“As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode. If it's good writing you just have to play it true - if it's funny, it's funny. But obviously you don't want it to be amusing if you're playing Hedda Gabler!”
“When people fall in deep distress, their native sense departs.”
“If anyone proposes to believe, i.e., imagines himself to believe, because many good and upright people living here on the hill have believed, i.e., have said that they believedthen he is a fool, and it is essentially indifferent whether he believes on account of his own and perhaps a widely held opinion about what good and upright people believe, or believes a Münchhausen.”
“The people I am most afraid of are those who are the most afraid.”
“Yes, of course [this age] is materialistic, but the only way to counteract it is to create spiritual things. Don't worry yourself about the materialism too much. Create and stir other people to create!”
“Create and stir other people to create.”
“When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.”
“We cannot tell some people what it is believe, partly because they are too stupid to understand, partly because we are too proudly vague to explain.”
“Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.”
“People who read me seem to be divided into four groups: twenty-five percent like me for the right reasons; twenty-five percent like me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the right reasons. It's that last twenty-five percent that worries me.”
“Democracy is the best chance for the best people.”
“If one by one we counted people out”
“The people I want to hear about are the people who take risks.”