People Quotes

Someone said I wasn't attractive enough. People say those things, but they make you stronger. Then you can win an Emmy and think, ha, ha, ha.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it-ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.

I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.

Well, you know, when people say stuff about you, it's always really flattering. But does it mean anything to me? It's not really real to me; there's no reality to it.

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

I don't care what people say about me.

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors.

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.

I don't have any comment on who the people of Russia choose to be their leaders.

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.

You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.'