People Quotes - Page 1380

I love picking people. I started Blackstone, and we had no people, and now we have with our portfolio companies about 750,000 people all over the world. Everybody who is at a senior level has ultimately been picked by me.

Singlehood is not longer a state to be overcome as soon as possible. It has its own rewards. Marriage is not the gateway to adulthood anymore. For most people it's the dessert - desirable, but no longer the main course.

One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace that I knew was possible of deaf people.

I was not someone who participated in other people's castles.

War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations.

It's immoral that people make money out of writing crap, but I try not to obsess about it. I don't want to spend my life being angry.

People work better when they are afforded to be themselves

Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.

There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth.

Social anxiety results from being around people who are resolutely opposed to who you are.

Way too many people are trying to do the same thing with their lives.

Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it.

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.

It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people.

Some people are able to not only entertain the public in any way that they can but also in some way to throw in some sort of inspirational message with the entertainment. I have always tried to do that with whatever I wrote. And I'm sure that a lot of other writers do, too.

I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.

The congress of the United States possesses no power to regulate, or interfere with the domestic concerns, or police of any state: it belongs not to them to establish any rules respecting the rights of property; nor will the constitution permit any prohibition of arms to the people.

Let my hands be of service to people. Let me earn wisdom through my hands. Let my hands do good work

People of color have a constant frustration of not being represented, or being misrepresented, and these images go around the world.

I hate it when people come up to me on trains and ask 'Are you Soulja Boy?' If people want pictures or autographs, that's cool, but I don't like the dumb questions.

What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.

The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be to listen at a keyhole. It is a pity for such that the practice is dishonorable.

I felt sometimes too responsible as an actor because people promote violence or weird things that I don't want to be part of.

Acting is wonderful therapy for people. Instead of suffering for yourself, someone will do it for you.