Listen, you make a big movie, you’re going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs up or the thumbs down. And that’s part of the game. It’s part of the fun as well. – Sam Mendes
My first year, people were interested in me because I was new. Then the press started to come. – Valentino Garavani
People should have their rights to be who they want to be and love who they want to love. – Sasha Cohen
I’ve been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I’m quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I’m one of the few people who tell the truth about myself. – T. E. Lawrence
Part of this country’s problem is that people from New York City – Wall Streeters – don’t think about the little guy who can’t afford things. – Wayne Huizenga
Across the board, people are looking at the problem, but simply not changing anywhere near fast enough. – Trevor Phillips
Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. – William James
The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration. – Sally Quinn
If I wouldn’t offend my religion or God, why would I want to offend an audience because in effect those people are being watched over by the same person. – Tim Conway
People always say to me, ‘You have such a clearly defined sense of style,’ and when I hear it, I get crazed, because what I hear – and I know they mean it as a compliment – is that I have such a narrow vision that I can’t get out of it. – Stanley Donen
I was anathema in polite society after I made ‘Last House.’ People literally would grab their children and run from the room. – Wes Craven
It’s important for people who criticise architects – whether what they build is or isn’t to your taste – to appreciate how they devote themselves and put everything into bringing a building into existence. – Thomas Heatherwick
I do know that I like to play characters that are sometimes a little on the outside – that’s because it feels kind of romantic and sexier to me. I really think they are the people that we learn lessons from. – Willem Dafoe
People always come up to me now and say, ‘Watchmen’ is the best superhero movie ever made.’ I’m always saying ‘That’s super cool. That’s nice of you to say.’ But it happens now, more and more and more than it did when it first came out. – Zack Snyder
The sentiment of those suggesting the Olympics and Paralympics be combined is no doubt well intentioned. But it also echoes the myth that disabled people want to be other than what we are – that we’d like nothing more than to be ‘allowed in’ with the able-bodied competitors. – Stella Young
People think, ‘She’s a model. She must have such an attitude. She must be so stuck up.’ But I’m normal. I cry. I’m not rich. I drive a 1987 Chevrolet Celebrity. – Summer Altice
I had benefited so much from Vipassana, I felt it was important for many more people to be able to share the experience. – Subhash Chandra
If people suspect their Cattle Bewitched, if they be great Cattle, make the twelfth house their ascendant, and the eleventh their twelfth house, and vary your Rules with Judgment. – William Lilly
I don’t set out to win awards. I don’t think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it’s an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. – Wadada Leo Smith
Some people like just sitting down and being taken for a ride. That’s a beautiful thing that fiction can do. But it’s not the only thing. In television and film, people are ready to accept any kind of jump cut, but the slightest disturbance on the page ruffles their feathers. – Zadie Smith
The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness. – Thomas Francis Meagher
We don’t really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we’ve been taken for granted. – Tom Petty
People always ask me if I’m going to stop modeling because I have started an acting career. I hope to continue to model for years to come. – Tyra Banks
Let there be an end to the arrogance of the big powers who miss no opportunity to put the rights of the people in question. Africa’s absence from the club of those who have the right to veto is unjust and should be ended. – Thomas Sankara
People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there’s been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium. – W. Daniel Hillis
I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don’t know when they sleep. – Val Kilmer
