“I like to deal with things I heard about, ... People are always getting their house broken into around the holidays. That's when the crime rate goes up.”
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People Quotes — page 983 of 5018
“When people see the Cubevision logo, they should know it's something good, something worth checking out.”
“Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that's crazy.”
“Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.”
“You can measure films on box office success, or people lovin' the movie whenever they see it. That's what I measure my movies on. How much people love these movies after they get a chance to see them, no matter how they get a chance to see them.”
“I always knew that I had to direct. That was something I'd wanted to do. Finally, I was just looking at the situation and I said, "I wanna document hip-hop, as an art form, seeing how a lot of people don't take it seriously."”
“I didn't really realize how big I was 'til I started to tour, because being in your own neighborhood, people don't actually give you full props.”
“I didn't start off with the responsibility because I didn't think anybody would care. But as you do meet these people influenced by your music, then you start to understand you have a responsibility. I don't think you initially know it until you feel the power of what you're really doing.”
“The rock'n'roll lifestyle really is available to anybody that's got money. Honestly. Once you get money, if you interview a hundred people with money, they'll all sound like rock stars.”
“A lot of times people would offer me movies and, because I'm a car freak, I'd look in a magazine and say, 'How much is this car? If you give me this car I'll show up and do the movie' I call 'em 'sports car flicks'.”
“That's one of the first things that comes out of young people's mouths when they're in love. FOREVER. And that's cool, it's all good-until you get old enough to realize what forever is.”
“When I play with people, one of the first rules is to listen. Just by the near fact that you listen and you're open to listening, or you're listening and you're open to what this other person is doing. Also you going to be open to what you're doing and you're not going to have it like 'planned out'.”
“What does it mean that social structures among young people are so often predicated upon trying really, really hard to appear to not-be-trying?”
“I never even dreamt that I'd be in a position to teach other people to speak better.”
“When people come up to me and say 'oh, your singing made me cry', it's nice to realise that you're making other people happy, but I don't know how I do it. I just sing.”
“Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.”
“People may be said to resemble the pieces of a puzzle, each unique, yet each essential to bring out a complete picture.”
“The people don't run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help.”
“People have to know there is more to living than physical things.”
“'Master Blaster,' by Stevie Wonder, is up-tempo and fun, like Stevie himself. Stevie's always making jokes; he really knows how to put people at ease. He's one of my inspirations, as a musician and a person.”