When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that’s plagiarism, that’s taking other people’s music. – Jay Kay
Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives. – John C. Maxwell
Back in the 1500s, the culture that we had built in the West embraced multigenerational projects quite easily. Notre Dame. Massive cathedrals were not built over the course of a few years, they were built over a few generations. People who started building them knew they wouldn’t be finished until their grandson was born. – Jamais Cascio
Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say. – Joyce Meyer
I think being self-referential is really narcissistic. Who’s to say anybody’s even thinking of you that much? But some of these movies that I’ve done, people still recite lines to me, even 20 years later. – John Cusack
Let’s be honest with one another: almost everything is too long except life, and I know people who wouldn’t even concur with that exception. – Howard Jacobson
The mixture of the Trinidadian people and the Indian people has caused a new culture to emerge. – Ismail Merchant
A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn’t believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it. – John Major
I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as if we’re connected. It’s great. – Judy Blume
People pulling 16-hour days on a regular basis are exhausted. They’re just too tired to notice that their work has suffered because of it. – Jason Fried
I always wonder if what I’m wearing will be something that people would compliment, or want to wear. I don’t ever get ready just for myself, ever. – Jessica Simpson
When people see a negative thing about me on a magazine, they’re gonna buy it. Every time some site writes something bad, all my followers go on there, and it brings them more traffic. – Justin Bieber
Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals. – Jonathan Sacks
He’s a man who… well, one of the great things about Shakespeare is that his characters are inconsistent, and that’s something I think makes him a writer above most writers because inconsistency is what we, as people, are full of. We maybe don’t see it in ourselves too often, but we are inconsistent. – Jeremy Irons
For many years I had heard about an underworld consisting of people who act out a vampire fantasy while I was living in New York. Fortunately for me there are also several books on the phenomena. – James Patterson
People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, actually. – James Earl Jones
I watch comedies most of the time. That’s what I gravitate toward. But I think the kinds of roles people see me in are sort of the opposite of that. I’m not really sure why. – Julia Stiles
There are tons of people who are late to trends by nature and adopt a trend after it’s no longer in fashion. They exist in mutual funds. They exist in clothes. They exist in cars. They exist in lifestyles. – Jim Cramer
Firms are not always willing to cut wages, even if there are people lined up outside the gates to work. So why don’t they? – Janet Yellen
When I first came to India from Sri Lanka, people were surprised to see my toned arms. I had come right after the Miss Universe pageant. – Jacqueline Fernandez
I think I look better in darker clothes. And maybe the fact that I wear black so much makes me more aware of putting people at ease. – Joan Jett
When people asked me what I did, I’d say, ‘I work in publishing’, and when they then say, ‘What side of it?’, I say, ‘Supply’ – no doubt leaving them to think I drive the books around in a van and deliver them. – Jim Crace
Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs. – J. D. Salinger
