I think a comedian has to be low status on some level; that gives you the right to do all sorts of jokes about all sorts of different kinds of people. – Stewart Lee
Historically, if you look at people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, people with disposable incomes have always been agricultural innovators. – Sandra Lerner
It used to be that you commit to something, and then basically you spend your year doing that. Now there’s a constant conversation of how you have to keep working in order to remind people that you’re around. – Winona Ryder
I am often disgusted at hearing young people I know, declare that they are afraid of doing this or that, because they MIGHT be killed. – William John Wills
Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject. – Ted Danson
What am I afraid of? The IRS. That’s it. I don’t want those people knockin’ on my door, man. – Tracy Morgan
The American middle class always wants to be upper class and is scared to death of being lower class. It’s a highly mobile group of people. They’re not like the people that want to be shopkeepers forever, have always been shopkeepers and want always to be shopkeepers. These people mostly are insulted by being called middle class. – Sloan Wilson
Film is important; it can be more than reportage or a novel – it creates images people have never seen before, never imagined they’d see, maybe because they needed someone else to imagine them. – Steven Rodney McQueen
I would say the No. 1 problem with the Volcker Rule is it’s too complicated, and people don’t know how to interpret it. – Steve Mnuchin
I’m an actor. The fact that I’m involved in Jigsaw, I don’t approach Jigsaw any differently than I approached The Nordic in ‘The Firm’ or FBI Agent Stokes in ‘Mississippi Burning.’ It’s the same deal. It’s just that the effect is sometimes different. So I say, people ask me, ‘How does it feel to be a horror icon?’ I’m thrilled. It’s great. – Tobin Bell
You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart. – Tony Hillerman
Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn’t seem like they’re actually listening to it. – Victoria Legrand
There’s also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it’s mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they’re not even buried. – Sam Trammell
I don’t think I’ll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding after having kids, like Mary King, but people say that you lose your nerve after you have kids. It’s the risk. – Zara Phillips
Nothing’s better than coming away from a film when people don’t even recognize you, because you’ve undergone a total transformation. – Warwick Davis
Mandatory arbitration clauses I think, more often than not, work to the detriment of working people. – Thomas Perez
Other people’s successes are good news – for them and for you. Good for you because they show you a way to go. – Steve Wynn
Most people don’t read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page. – Tom Wolfe
You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with. – Zac Brown
I really have paid no attention to social media. It’s never been something that I’ve done. There are people that put up tour dates and basically say what’s going on, but I need to get more involved, because I hear about rumors that are absolutely ridiculous. – Scott Weiland
People have always doubted whether I was good enough to play this game at this level. I thought I was, and I thought I could be. What other people thought was really always irrelevant to me. – Steve Nash
I don’t think people should do things because you know, ‘I am turning this age, I must go have a husband.’ If you find somebody and it works out then have kids, it’s very nice. But if you don’t, you don’t. – Zaha Hadid
The face of terrorism in Iraq is dead. Abu Musab al Zarqawi brutalized, tortured, and killed thousands of innocent people, forcing Iraqis to live in fear. The Iraqi people finally had enough, and gave up his whereabouts to the Iraqi security forces. – Tim Murphy
