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The Great Gatsby
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People Quotes

My experience with record labels throughout my career has generally fallen into wishing I could do things that they’re not built to do, whether it be arguing about having a nicer package – because I do believe some people care about that – to trying to always bank on art-versus-the-easy-commerce route; there’s always been headbutting involved.

– Trent Reznor

A lot of people know about the power of the WWE brand. We’re in 145 countries in 30 different languages. We reach about 650 million households worldwide on a global weekly basis. But what they don’t know about WWE is that we use all of that power to give back to the community through events like Hurricane Sandy Relief.

– Stephanie McMahon

So many people hide inside their clothes.

– Trinny Woodall

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

– Tony Snow

Maybe the coolest people are the ones who don’t care about being cool.

– Steve Carell

Three years is a lifetime in Hollywood. If your career starts slipping in L.A., you can really feel it. All of a sudden, the people that you were beating for a part start beating you.

– Zach Galligan

I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.

– Taylor Swift

The biggest thing I want to see is that people have the drive to succeed. If they can ‘take it or leave it,’ I don’t do business with them. I enjoy mentoring. I like people who want to learn.

– Tilman J. Fertitta

If you think about making a city that is much more porous, many accessible spaces, that is a political position, because you don’t fortify, you open it up so that many people can use it.

– Zaha Hadid

This is what you need to do in a luxury business: look for people who will like being there every day.

– Steve Wynn

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations… can never effect a reform.

– Susan B. Anthony

Once you go from 10 people to 100, you already don’t know who everyone is. So at that stage you might as well keep growing, to get the advantages of scale.

– Sergey Brin

There’s something to be said for going right into people’s living rooms. I think actors have always loved that medium – you’re right in there with people in their homes. A lot of very audacious work is being done on television.

– Sigourney Weaver

As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.

– Warwick Davis

I hate it when people come up to me on trains and ask ‘Are you Soulja Boy?’ If people want pictures or autographs, that’s cool, but I don’t like the dumb questions.

– Soulja Boy

Show business is not conducive to mental stability. It’s a constant rollercoaster of adrenaline spikes and devastating let-downs. There’s something about seeing a face from the telly in real life that makes people deranged.

– Tom Hollander

I think as you get older, there are things that there’s just no light side to, but you know, I guess the more you empathise with people, the more empathy you have, the less you are able to see the lighter side.

– Steve Toltz

It’s weird how people who are the least close to me or who’ve never even met me purport to be experts on the real me; and then, sadly, there are those who could be in touch with me but prefer to gossip with strangers about me instead.

– Vanna Bonta

Duets is about six people, so it’s like three different movies – three different duets. I was on the set 18 days, spread out over three and a half or four weeks.

– Scott Speedman

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

– Woody Allen

A lot of people think I’m a vegan. I’m not.

– Tao Lin

For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way.

– Wietse Venema

People need to be re – sometimes we need to reinvent ourselves and then get reacquainted with our better selves.

– Terry McMillan

I didn’t necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.

– Zach Braff

I never write to disappear and escape. The truth is exactly the opposite. Most people strike me as escaping and disappearing in one way or another – into their jobs, their daily routines, their delusions about themselves and others.

– Steven Millhauser

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.

– Stephen Covey

It is wrong to make anyone into an enemy; it is wrong to scare the people of one’s own country with that enemy and try to rally some allies on that basis.

– Vladimir Putin

Certainly, we continue to bring in new people. We’ll hire, net new, over 4,000 people this year, and attract great people into the company. I’m very bullish about the employee base and what it can accomplish.

– Steve Ballmer

I’d be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means… Yeah, authentic and creative.

– Zooey Deschanel

There aren’t many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can’t withstand the scrutiny.

– Tom Ford

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