When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television.
~By Francis Ford Coppola ~
People think we don't give a toss about the game, but when I walked out of Windsor Park that night I felt lower than a snake's belly. The reality is still there.
~By Rio Ferdinand ~
It is said by the rebels at Roxbury that Col. Watson has given his quota to support the people.
~By Peter Oliver ~
You have to watch all sides of your advancement, you have to make sure people's bodies and minds are healthy and their morale is cool before you can really go out and play great music.
~By Shirley Manson ~
I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.
~By Ruby Wax ~
Christ, he was paranoid about criticism. I used to say: why doesn't he worry about the team and forget what people are saying? He got Phil Thompson, who was a kid coming through when I was a Liverpool player, to have a go at me. So now I don't talk to him.
~By Ian St. John ~
The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.
~By George Carlin ~
I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.
~By Christiane Amanpour ~
They studio were flabbergasted when they discovered how interested everybody was in 'those old people.' And now many upcoming projects feature older people; it's become a trend.
~By Daniel Petrie ~
That area environmentally is a waste. You can't do anything. I don't care if the Sierra Club goes out there. It is fully polluted! You're not only going to work to clean up the environment, but also you will put people to work.
~By Richard M. Daley ~
People who say that the Internet is the bubble are incredibly misguided.
~By James Daly ~
You don't get on your feet if you don't have to, you know. And these people were on their feet rockin', and that was thrilling for David and I, absolutely.
~By Graham Nash ~
Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
I meet a lot of young people in the Midwest, and I saw what a difference a show like In the Life can make to their lives in some of these small towns where, you know, there are probably two gay people in the whole damn town.
~By Lesley Gore ~
I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo.
~By Thomas Dolby ~
A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word.
~By Holly Near ~
People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards.
~By Pat Riley ~
I was a shy, quiet kid. I was happiest playing by myself with my toys, rather than hanging around people.
~By Christian Slater ~
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
~By George Orwell ~
There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.
~By Jacqueline Bisset ~
Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine.
~By John Shirley ~
People were so keen to get investment. In those days, there was quite significant unemployment in Northern Ireland, and that had been the general pattern in Northern Ireland for many, many years.
~By John Hume ~
The argument we always used to use was that keeping records in the catalog was good for people that were coming new to the music, but I think that was talking over a ten year or fifteen year time span.
~By Evan Parker ~
Gay people are the sweetest, kindest, most artistic, warmest and most thoughtful people in the world. And since the beginning of time all they've ever been is kicked.
~By Little Richard ~
We need to get some people in here. There's no passion out there. There's always an excuse. Nobody wants to step up and be a pro.
~By Jeff Malone ~
If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don't respect him.
~By Wil Wheaton ~
Golf is fundamentally about being honest. I see people hit eight shots and tell me they shot five. I never say a word. It is a reminder to me of what is at stake.
~By Martin Sheen ~
I guess my enthusiasm kind of rubs off on people.
~By Margaret Murray ~
I was what? - twelve years old - and I was thrown in the cells with these people, so I learned fast.
~By Gregory Corso ~
I think anything that has to do with sexuality makes people very interested.
~By Catherine Deneuve ~
President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.
~By Randy Neugebauer ~
I wanted something that had the feel of a complete band and a variety of instrument. Apart from doing the album for musical satisfaction, I felt it was an important statement for other women - showing you don't have to rely on other people to do things for you.
~By Danielle Dax ~
How many people out there really set a budget?
~By Nelly ~
And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now.
~By Ahmed Chalabi ~
I represent a district covering Rockland, Westchester and Bronx counties, all of which are part of the 9 million people that this water is so important for.
~By Eliot Engel ~
I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.
~By Daniel Clowes ~
I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
~By Harry Caray ~
If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.
~By Neal Barnard ~
We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
~By Patrick Leahy ~
Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries.
~By Kenzaburo Oe ~
By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.
~By Adolf Hitler ~
Politics is a people business. I like people.
~By Laura Bush ~
Some other people are very lucky and always get in to the very best teams at the very best times and therefore go out and score lots of championship points and be in with a chance of the championship.
~By David Leslie ~
One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it.
~By Huey Long ~
The people of Canada have worked hard to build a country that opens its doors to include all, regardless of their differences; a country that respects all, regardless of their differences; a country that demands equality for all, regardless of their differences.
~By Paul Martin ~
I get letters from kids, teenagers and young girls who just want to be Mac. I've had quite a few people actually say that they're going to become a Marine or a JAG lawyer because of me... the character. I think that's pretty cool!
~By Catherine Bell ~
Today a racist is synonymous with race hatred. Hating someone is a pretty unpleasant thing and few people are capable of hating others. Long-term hatred is a pathological disorder.
~By Steve Blake ~
People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
~By Bodhidharma ~
I didn't go to a normal high school. It was for people in the performing arts.
~By Marla Sokoloff ~
I want to give people a taste of the Caribbean, and show them the fun side of me.
~By Rihanna ~
Today, as we look back on the history of our nation and take note of how far we have come as a people, we are reminded that we owe a great debt to those who fought valiantly for the freedoms that we easily take for granted.
~By Sam Brownback ~
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
~By Charles de Montesquieu ~
Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read some literature, you become involved with people who also want to know and are ready to share some ideas about literature and thoughts, and it becomes nourished that way.
~By Harvey Keitel ~
But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field - to enhance their physical appearance.
~By Bo Jackson ~
I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.
~By Barbara Amiel ~
Our mission for younger people is to do our best to make exercise cool, hip - the thing to do.
~By Bruce Jenner ~
We want everybody to succeed. You know why? We want the country to succeed, and for the country to succeed, its people - its individuals - must succeed.
~By Rush Limbaugh ~
I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it.
~By Rita Dove ~
For so long people have just taken what I do for granted. It is not easy to do year-in, year-out, to win Grand Slams and be No. 1.
~By Pete Sampras ~
Women were real box office stars in the '40s, more so than men. People loved to see women's films. I think it was better then, except for the studio system.
~By Gwyneth Paltrow ~
We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music.
~By Dan Hawkins ~
Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.
~By Siobhan Fahey ~
It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
~By Sophocles ~
Don't underestimate the people. Let them decide.
~By Thaksin Shinawatra ~
I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don't expect people to hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you and unzip your fly for you.
~By Shel Silverstein ~
You must be one of the few people with a copy of that. I don't think they printed too many.
~By Chow Yun Fat ~
You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it.
~By Warren Buffett ~
It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly.
~By Ryan Phillippe ~
As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas.
~By Julian Bond ~
I believe that a contract, or at least an understanding, exists between the American public and the American advertiser concerning what advertising is, what its limitations are and what price people will pay for it.
~By John O'Toole ~
The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.
~By James Weldon Johnson ~
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
~By Wendell Berry ~
You can definitely become a victim and let people completely destroy your life.
~By Tina Yothers ~
If we don't believe in Americans, who will? I do believe. I've seen it in the people of our very typical corner of the nation.
~By Mitch Daniels ~
I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
~By Billy Joel ~
You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.
~By Jello Biafra ~
I said it was my feeling that the American people would struggle for peace, and that has since been underscored by the President of these United States.
~By Paul Robeson ~
I guess when you have that one monster season, it's good because you're recognized. If it weren't for that season, not as many people would know about my career. But it also kind of diminishes what I did in other years.
~By Brady Anderson ~
So I sat down with him and portrayed more the side of the character he needed to see. Which is what I do when I go in for an interview for a part I like. As much as you think you're dealing with creative people, they see you for what your image is out there.
~By Jennifer Lopez ~
I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.
~By Richard Attenborough ~
The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
~By Al Sharpton ~
I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA.
~By Laurie Anderson ~
Imagine people calling you to find out if you're dead. I've led a real crazy life at times, and I've had many strange things happen to me, but that was one of the strangest.
~By Richard Pryor ~
Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.
~By Mary Pickford ~
Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I think it helps a lot when they tell people that Teri Hatcher likes you. If you're Teri Hatcher's boyfriend, suddenly you're hunky I guess. I've spent 40 years being average and now I'm Teri hatcher's boyfriend and here we are. I've been really fortunate.
~By James Denton ~
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
~By Irvine Welsh ~
If we had a starting XI that no one could argue about it wouldn't say a lot for English football. We'd probably be on a downward spiral. It's good that people have different ideas about who should play.
~By Rio Ferdinand ~
I used to want to be tall, and then I thought, 'If I were tall, then people would say I was pretty and not cute.' And then I realized that there are worse things than being called cute.
~By Kristin Chenoweth ~
I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
~By Roy Lichtenstein ~
The more people who come from abroad who played soccer and are brought up playing it and watching it, then come over to America and bring what they know and what they play, that's how the sport will grow.
~By Claudio Reyna ~
The thing of it is though that's the only way people know you, they see you in that roll and they see you in person and they only know the perception of what you are.
~By David Selby ~
I went there and helped him shuffle pictures of people, and one of the agents asked me if I was interested in acting. Of course, I was a little bit interested in it; I'm sure that's part of the reason I moved to L.A. even though I never admitted it to myself.
~By Josh Duhamel ~
I think sport in general affects what people see in movies. I always try to explain to people in Hollywood that we have to make movies more like sport because, in sport, everything can happen and it's so much better than movies in some ways.
~By Roland Emmerich ~
Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.
~By Heraclitus ~
Your home should be your home. People shouldn't be allowed to use whatever crazy lenses they use to catch you waking up in the morning.
~By Sarah Chalke ~
Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.
~By E. M. Forster ~
I don't think anyone is more intrinsically holy. People experience God in many ways; and it seems to me that God does what the rest of us do: He chooses the means that best gets His message across.
~By Gene Wolfe ~
I'm really an outdoorsy girl. People think I can't go anywhere without getting all primped up, but I love to go camping, and I'm totally fine with not doing my hair or makeup, not taking a shower and just hiking.
~By Vanessa Hudgens ~
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