Traveling has a major impact on what I do, cause all over the world I’m meeting all kinds of people. And relationships is the second major impact that I have. I just enjoy the variety that the world has to offer. – Jason Mraz
I designed ‘Buffy’ to be an icon, to be an emotional experience, to be loved in a way that other shows can’t be loved. Because it’s about adolescence, which is the most important thing people go through in their development, becoming an adult. – Joss Whedon
Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that’s right is to get by, and the only thing that’s wrong is to get caught. – J. C. Watts
I guess I much prefer the path of the contrarian: the guy who goes against the grain a bit. The careers of the people who I admire deeply – like the Coen brothers and Soderbergh – don’t repeat themselves, and they make radically different films at times, and I think that’s wonderful. – Joe Carnahan
Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level – and that’s never going to get lost. – Jill Scott
I’m intrigued by fanatics – people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute. – Jon Krakauer
People who don’t know me think I’m easy-going, but I’m a pessimist by nature and an old curmudgeon. – James Garner
The states ought to be the ones making the decisions about the individual mandate, the employer mandate, all of the different requirements of what kind of insurance people have to have. – John Barrasso
I don’t like living around too many fancy-pantsy folks. That ain’t my thing. I’m not into phony people. – James McBride
What is it but a cunningly devised scheme to take from one State and to give to another – to replenish the treasury of some of the States from the pockets of the people of the others; in reality, to make them support the governments and pay the debts of other States as well as their own? – John C. Calhoun
When I ask people to give, I can’t be on television if they don’t; I can’t help people, if I don’t – I mean, it takes money. – Joyce Meyer
Certainly, people can get along without siblings. Single children do, and there are people who have irreparably estranged relationships with their siblings who live full and satisfying lives, but to have siblings and not make the most of that resource is squandering one of the greatest interpersonal resources you’ll ever have. – Jeffrey Kluger
We need to respond to the mood of the people – that we must take the lives of the other side as well. – Joe Slovo
The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people. – J. K. Rowling
I have developed a Zen-like approach to the operating systems that people use: ‘When you’re ready, the right operating system will appear in your life.’ – Guy Kawasaki
The day people around me stop questioning my character is the day my character begins to grow vulnerable. – John Ortberg
Instead of investing our resources in locking people up, let’s invest more of those resources in our fellow citizens so they don’t end up in the system to begin with. And if they do, they can get back on their feet. – John Legend
Take air quality in the United States today: It’s about 30 percent better than it was 25 years ago, even though there are now more people driving more cars. – Jared Diamond
If a scene is three pages long, quite often people break it up and do a page, say ‘cut’ then move on to the next bit, they do it in cuts. I don’t really like doing that; I like to go through it all in one organic run, then give notes afterward. A little bit more like theater. – James McAvoy
Technologists provide tools that can improve people’s lives. But I want to be clear that I don’t think technology by itself improves people’s lives, since often I’m criticized for being too pro-technology. Unless there’s commensurate ethical and moral improvements to go along with it, it’s for naught. – Jaron Lanier
Films are big hits when they touch a lot of people. Things are not funny in a vacuum, they’re funny because we respond to some personal dislocation, some embarrassment, some humiliation, some pain we’ve suffered, or some desire we have. – Harold Ramis
I’ve interviewed people where their response was literally one word for everything I asked. This didn’t help me get to know them, nor did it sell me on their skill set to help my company achieve its goals. I got nothing from them, which meant I had no way of knowing if they were really a good fit in the company. – John Rampton
