I was an old tackle riding around talking to people about sports. Like I’ve said to a lot of people over the years, ‘I only go where old tackles go, and if an old tackle does not belong there, I’m not going.’ – John Madden
Ummm… well, the only thing I want to do is stuff with people who care about what they’re doing, which sounds obvious, but it’s really not. – Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I’m a con artist in that I’m an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn’t. – John Lithgow
When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities. – Jack Kemp
If you’re going to say to all the people that you’re working with, ‘We want you to treat the customers honestly; don’t lie and don’t cheat,’ it is somewhat hypocritical if you’re not following the same rules. – James Sinegal
I can understand why we got bad reviews. We went right over people’s heads. One album would follow another and would have nothing to do with what we’d done before. People didn’t know what was going on. – Jimmy Page
In those projects with Sting and Josh Groban and people like that, I see a very interesting effect: their fans coming to my classical concerts, people who’ve never been to a classical show at all. – Joshua Bell
Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous. – Janis Joplin
In 2008, as a matter of fact, I had people accusing me of being a Senator Obama supporter because I wouldn’t slam him. I said, ‘Well, consider the fact that I voted for impeachment for President Clinton, but it wasn’t a personal vote. I voted based on the facts and the law and the Constitution and what we were dealing with.’ – J. C. Watts
Chinese people, young people, they don’t go shopping a lot in department stores. All department store guys hate me. They say business is bad because of Jack. – Jack Ma
People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, ‘Why?’ – Ian Mckellen
I told Donald Trump, ‘This isn’t a campaign, this is a movement.’ Look at what’s happening. The American people are not happy with their government. – Jeff Sessions
People are hysterical about the death of newspapers, and I would say, ‘They’re not dying; they’re just kind of reinventing themselves.’ – Jared Kushner
I lost 30 pounds to play my character in ‘The Mexican’, but people don’t take to skinny mafia men, and I don’t feel right when I’m thin. – James Gandolfini
Sometimes there’s a snobbery among literary types that these people don’t really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There’s a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level. – Irvine Welsh
At festivals, you can go a lot bigger than a club and have massive euphoric moments because there are so many people there all feeling the same thing. – Jamie xx
For people who don’t know me, I practiced medicine in Casper, Wyoming for 25 years as an orthopedic surgeon, taking care of families in Wyoming. I’ve been chief of staff of the largest hospital in our state. My wife is a breast cancer survivor. – John Barrasso
If you’ve been in a film that’s seen by millions and millions and millions of people, you’re more likely to be recognized for that than for your theater performances, which were seen by considerably less people. Why would I get upset by that? – Ian Mckellen
You can’t reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you’ll never lose people knowing you. – J. Cole
Garnishments tend to happen when people hide from their debts and stop making even minimum payments. Eventually, creditors sell the debt to a collection agency. – Jean Chatzky
People make judgments about Scientology, but often they don’t know what they’re talking about. – John Travolta
I understand that one of the purposes of bipartisanship is to cram something difficult and necessary down the American people’s gullets for which neither party has the fortitude to assume full responsibility. It’s a way of turning a possible gangplank into a teeter-totter. – James Wolcott
Sometimes, in public life, people ask inappropriate, off-the-wall kinds of questions, don’t they? – Hillary Clinton
