I’m extremely ambitious. I don’t know why people are afraid to say that. I won’t sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don’t think that’s bad. – Jada Pinkett Smith
I think a lot of people don’t have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not honest in what they teach our high school students. – Jonathan Kozol
People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident. – John C. Maxwell
I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together. – JR
The unemployment rate has effectively not gone down from where it was at the peak of the recession. The only reason it’s gone technically from 10 percent to 8 percent is so many people are discouraged and have quit work. – Jim Talent
There’s tonnes of room for more people in the tech market, and there are lots of content gaps that have still not yet been tapped into. – Jon Oringer
Stage-persona notwithstanding, I’m extremely shy and quiet. Almost painfully shy. People misinterpret that as being above it all or not interested. – J. Michael Straczynski
I find that people… very few people think that what they’re doing is bad, and usually the people who think what they’re doing is bad it has more to do with guilt. – Jon Favreau
Well I think any designer that can understand what people need to be wearing right now is the biggest and best step that you can take. Instead of putting your ego first, you put the buyer first. And I think that that’s a really important thing just to know what the consumer is wanting to wear. – Jessica Simpson
We’ve created rules and taxes on top of every aspiration of people, and the net result is we’re not growing fast, income is not growing. – Jeb Bush
GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early ’90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software. – Jack Dangermond
I really think people should live to be 100 years old pretty much disease-free. I think that’s our genetic potential. – John Mackey
I’ve gotten a lot of compliments on the ‘Criminal Minds’ guy. I guess it’s because the look of that character is so different from what people expect of me. – Jason Alexander
People do all sorts of things impulsively and follow those impulses into strange places. – John Darnielle
The house is always full, and we’re always cooking – outside, inside, for six, eight, a dozen, 20 people. – Jean-Georges Vongerichten
It doesn’t do much good to have a quality image, whether it’s with the facility or whether it’s with the merchandise, if you don’t have real quality people taking care of your customers. – James Sinegal
I never wanted to be liked by the majority of people, but there were always some people that I desperately wanted to be liked by. And so you’ve got to behave in a way that… the way I put it is that if you want to be a real intellectual, you’ve got to have someone to save you. – James D. Watson
You tell people that the NFL is a nonprofit entity, and they just start laughing and giggling. But it’s not fair. – Jason Chaffetz
I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them. – Isak Dinesen
I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, ’cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people’s voices. – Idris Elba
I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate. – Jack Canfield
People don’t know and they shouldn’t know that you work incredibly hard as an actor. – James Gandolfini
A lot of times, good improv is when both people, or however many people are in the scene, really have no idea what the next thing you’re going to say is. – John C. Reilly
There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force – then there could very well be a backlash. – Iris Chang
A lot of movies you do because they’re fun, they make people forget about their day. – James Van Der Beek
I believe the people of Arizona and the people of America are fed up with the federal government. The bottom line is, is that they need to secure our borders. And in regards to Senate Bill 1070, what a disappointment! It hasn’t been divisive; it has united Arizona! It has united America! – Jan Brewer
