As a football player, you just deal with injuries. It’s all part of the football game. I’ve dealt with injuries as much as everybody else. People have dealt with worse injuries than I’ve dealt with. It’s all part of the game, all part of getting that tackle. – Troy Polamalu
I’m actually interested in poor behavior. I’m interested in what drives people to poor behavior. – Theresa Rebeck
We should expand health savings accounts so people can save in a tax-advantaged way for more routine healthcare needs. – Ted Cruz
We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may eventually burst forth with uncontrolled rage that is highly exaggerated and distorted by its long suppression. – Shakti Gawain
But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses. – Steven Soderbergh
There are still too many people out there who are claustrophobic. On easyCruise, we are going to open up as many cabins as we can. – Stelios Haji-Ioannou
I am my biggest critic. Even in films where people said they liked me, I have disliked myself. – Samantha Ruth Prabhu
When you say ‘I want to be an inspiring leader,’ the operative phrase is ‘I want.’ This is inherently me-centered and self serving whether or not you recognise it. What you are really saying is ‘I want to get people to do what I would like them to.’ Perhaps they don’t want to do that. So you have to somehow get them there. – Srikumar Rao
I like to be able to raise people’s consciousness, yes. And to remind that those of us involved in the receiving end of the oppression, we have a duty. – Wes Studi
I get offered a lot of parts where I want to say, ‘Why don’t you just hire a model? Don’t hire an actor.’ I’m trying to convince people I’m a real actor, not some mannequin. – Tim Daly
My first serious girlfriend, when I was 16, was Mormon. I went to her house for ‘family home evening,’ and I was like, ‘Why aren’t you people ignoring each other and watching television?’ – Trey Parker
When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-’90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people’s ideas. – Yves Behar
It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death. – Terry Pratchett
The loss of courtship in modern days – like, people don’t court anybody anymore. There’s no beauty about it. – Sofia Vassilieva
Teen problem novels? I can go through them like a box of chocolates. And there are fantasy books out now that need a lot more editing. Fantasy got to be so popular that people began to think ‘We don’t need to be as diligent with the razor blade,’ but they do. – Tamora Pierce
That’s how we grew up – kinda like Pops would put his drums, his percussion and instruments into the car and we would just go to a facility in the Bay Area and he would say to us, ‘You think we have it bad? There are people worse off than we are. Let’s go give back to the kids.’ And that’s how we grew up. – Sheila E.
I wish people could have seen what they called our mansion. They would have been so disappointed, because it was just an old house that we fixed up, and I love the old house. – Tammy Faye Bakker
The thing of sitting in an audience and going into a dream-like state with several hundred other people that are sharing exactly what you’re feeling is a profound event. – Wes Craven
I’ve never really been the type of person who worries much about what people think of me. – Stephen Baldwin
The most challenging part of being CEO is communicating to 200,000 people what you want done. – Steven Burd
I hope I’m saving lives. There are very few people in their careers that have the opportunity to do something to benefit mankind. – Stephanie Kwolek
If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they’ll generally stay out of trouble. – Steve Chabot
My nan was a nursery maid. Most people weren’t in big houses. They were maids of all work. – Sarah Waters
A lot of times, I think people feel that new plays are suspect, and actually, I don’t know where that came from. I completely disagree with it! – Theresa Rebeck
