People Quotes - Page 1469

Usually people who are evil don't see themselves as evil.

Punctuality is for people with nothing better to do

My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came from my desire to see to it that someone stood between the darkness and the people it would devour.

You can't have success without trust. The word trust embodies almost everything you can strive for that will help you to succeed. You tell me any human relationship that works without trust, whether it is a marriage or a friendship or a social interaction; in the long run, the same thing is true about business, especially businesses that deal with people.

I have found that by trusting people until they prove themselves unworthy of that trust, a lot more happens.

You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know.

I'm a conversationalist. I came out of a town with only 300 people. I didn't have anybody to talk to. I didn't want to talk about farming. So when I came out in the world, I started talking. Never stopped.

You need to have honest things in the world. Even if people don't understand it, if it's coming from you, that's already important.

Over three-quarters of the American people are saying it's time to open up the debates. We have rejected these two candidates [Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump] at the highest levels of disapproval in our history.

It's frustrating me - that booty is gonna sag at some point. And if you allow enough people to come inside your physical space, they leave traces.

People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films.

If people are foolish, they are bound to mix the personality and the Truth, and to build a temple around the personality and form a religion.

If you look at ancient Chinese culture, and depictions of it, the relationship between people and nature was very different. It almost felt as though feelings were always attached to a certain landscape.

People living their lives for you on TV; They say they're better than you, and you agree.

I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing.

It's time to teach our daughters that their ability to be good people depends on their being good people, not on whether or not they're sexually active.

Walking into a room filled with people you don't know but who know you brings out your worst vulnerabilities.

People will always consider me a cartoon character, a bimbo. They will never give me credit.

I find that the monsters are usually the people that I have the most empathy for because they're the ones that are hurt the most. There's a reason why they're the monsters.

In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not.

I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.

I love fat people. Every fat person says it's not their fault, that they have gland trouble. You know which gland? The saliva gland.

I understand maybe some people are more impressionable than my hard, cynical self, but maybe they need to figure out how to be less of that.

The hip-hop that I really connected with was Public Enemy, KRS-One, Ice Cube, and N.W.A. That late '80s and early '90s era. The beginning of gangster rap and the beginning of politically conscious rap. I had a very immature, adolescent feeling of, "Wow, I can really connect with these people through the stories they're telling in this music."

When I was writing the memoir, every page was a battle with myself because I knew I had to tell the truth. That's what the memoir form demands. I also had to figure out how much of the truth do I tell, how do I make the truth as balanced as I possibly can? How do I make these people as complicated and as human and as unique and as multifaceted as I possibly can? For me, that was the way I attempted to counteract some of that criticism.