People Quotes - Page 1324

Some people pursue unhappiness because happiness is too mild a sensation.

Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy.

One should not seek happiness, but rather happy people.

The idea of being on television is to wear your T-shirt so people see it and maybe buy it.

I try to be specific. One thought at a time. Clear. Articulate. And above all, memorable, if you can be. You'd like to write phrases that people can't forget as soon as they read them.

You must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.

I don't like showing the technique. I don't like people who say, "Here, I'm going to act, but first I have to bounce off this wall." If you have to bounce off the wall, do it by yourself. Don't feature the technique. My old drama coach used to say, "Don't just do something, stand there." Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.

There are two kinds of people in this world. 'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person.

Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.

Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community.

People ask me what makes a good funeral, and I tell them the most important thing is your man in the casket. If you have a man of substance in there, you have the makings of a first-class funeral.

I think support of the straight community is very important and I think there has been a profound shift in public opinion seen reflected in many ways. We do not need straight people to speak for us but we do want straight people to stand with us.

Prior to the internet, the last technology that had any real effect on the way people sat down and talked together was the table

In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.

It really is appallingly difficult to do something which is complete in every respect, and I think most people are content with mere approximations. Well, my dear friend, I intend to battle on, scrape off and start again.

Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.

The way I see it there are two types of people. Those stupid enough to get ripped off by people selling ringtones and those sensible enough to set up ringtone selling services.

What a holler would ensue if people had to pay the minister as much to marry them as they have to pay a lawyer to get them a divorce.

Nobody would know me from my own description of myself; which is why, when called upon (rarely, I grant) to provide an account, I tailor it, I adapt, I try to provide an outline that can, in some way, correlate to the outline that people understand me to have -- that, I suppose, I actually have, at this point. But who I am in my head, very few people really get to see that. Almost none. It's the most precious gift I can give, to bring her out of hiding.

Filmmaking is to me very similar to being in a café somewhere in Paris and looking at the people walking by.

Fear of what other people will think is the single most paralyzing dynamic in business and in life. The best moment of my lifewas the day I realized that I know longer give a damn what anybody thinks. That's enormously liberating and freeing, and it's the only way to live your life and do your business.

Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz - something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding.

I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them.

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.

Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.