I think stupid people are surprised that I’m Australian. It’s a small-minded; we live in a global community, but I suppose some people still are small-minded. – Iggy Azalea
While it is useful to rebut charges and get your arguments out in circulation, you have to understand that arguments and evidence have little impact on people as long as their feelings tilt them against you. – Jonathan Haidt
I never wanted to become an actress because I’d read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did. – Julie Walters
I believe in the America people’s ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed. – Jesse Ventura
People don’t really assume that I’m Filipino. Of course, they’re gonna think, ‘Oh, are you some sort of Hispanic?’ and you say, ‘No, I’m actually not.’ I get Korean or Chinese a lot. – Jose Antonio Vargas
I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy. – Joyce Meyer
The problem most people make with their media presence is they’re trying to craft a media presence as opposed to just consistently publishing who they are. – Jason Calacanis
We want people who work for us to be entrepreneurs. We like them to look at ideas. We like them to chase ideas. We like them to not be what I call a caretaker of an asset. – Ivan Glasenberg
I’ve had people come up to me in the past and say they enjoyed whatever show I’ve been in. – Hugh Bonneville
As much as I appreciate people putting me in the category of these very acrobatic belters, I feel like my strength is my… interpretation and my truthfulness with songs, and I don’t want young people to think it’s all about the high notes that they have to hit. – Idina Menzel
The President of the Church will not lead the people of the Church astray. It will never happen. – James E. Faust
I do what I do. You like it, great. You don’t, go listen to somebody else. I’m stickin’ with the people who stuck with me. – Ice Cube
A lot of people ask me to produce or direct, but I don’t think I’m qualified. It’s hard enough for a person to do just one thing well in their life. I don’t want to do too much. – Gong Li
A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information. – Jimmy Wales
Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff. – Irvine Welsh
People say, ‘Is broadcasting the same as coaching?’ I say, ‘Hell, no.’ Coaching, you win and lose. Broadcasting, you don’t win and lose. Coaching was a lot bigger than broadcasting. – John Madden
I have dealt with a pretty interesting mix of young people, many of whom have never been involved in any form of politics at any level who are interested in alternatives to austerity and debt, and older people who left the Labour party, mainly over Iraq, who are coming back in. – Jeremy Corbyn
Acting is a weird, kind of alienating job because you’re in an isolated place. Even if you’re working with a lot of other people, you’re kind of alienated. Actors say that a lot, and I kind of find that to be true. – Jesse Eisenberg
Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them. – Jerry Saltz
Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don’t know why. It’s ugly, everywhere. – Ice Cube
God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them. – Joel Osteen
Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that’s crazy. – Ice Cube
They didn’t act like people and they didn’t act like actors. It’s hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good. – J. D. Salinger
It’s not my job to worry about how Left, Right will react to something. My job is, am I creating something that connects people? That’s my job. – Jose Antonio Vargas
I see people that have success, and I see how poised and polished they are and how they handle it. I wonder inside if they feel the same way that I feel. – Jerry West
There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it. – James Weldon Johnson
