“After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.”
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People Quotes — page 968 of 5018
“Let us get together with other people of our sort and make over the world into a great world-civilization that will enable us to realize the promises and avoid the dangers of this new time.”
“The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with egg-shell china.”
“If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.”
“At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.”
“I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.”
“I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery.”
“It's not always expected of filmmakers to do stereotyped stories. But one has to be willing to travel to festivals and hook up with people, engage people intellectually about your passion and the kinds of films that interest you, and sooner or later you find people that have the same affinity that you have.”
“At the end of the day, people want to see how fast you run.”
“Most young people now are very vulnerable as to what the American film aficionados are going to say. They care too much about a system that has no room for them. It's really a serious issue for me, because to me it's, how do I survive beyond a film that was disgraced or praised?”
“A lot of young black people in America, and even in Africa and Brazil, would say that they are telling their story, but most of the films are like application forms with the formulaic ideas of Hollywood.”
“Success is really when you create a space, a piece of art, and people come in and say, that's my story - when they claim it.”
“They are more like artistic names. Bá is a nickname. It's short for Gá. When I learned to spell letters and words, instead of calling him Gabriel [Ba], I called him Babio. People call him Gá and I call him Bá. So Bá is a nickname.”
“He thought about his people without sentimentality, with a strict closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved the people he hated most.”
“The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August.”
“He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.”
“It's funny, people talk about the characters they play and who do you sort of see yourself as or which ones maybe were closest to you and in some ways.”
“I think that music is still a mystery to most people. It kind of goes through most people without a specific thought. They feel the music, which is what's supposed to happen. They're not supposed to be curious about who wrote the music; they're supposed to feel what the show is trying to get them to feel. So if I help get that feeling across, that's good enough for me.”
“I'm not a fashionista - I adore creative and original people with their own style.”
“It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.”