P Quotes
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“People are all the same. We all think we are unique. That's what I like about ducks. They don't think about themselves. They think about things like: How can we save humans from killing themselves? Of course, they have the solution, but they just refuse to share it with us.”
Source: Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.
“People are all the same. We need a personal reason to get our asses off the couch.”
Source: The Nearest Exit
“people are all there is to an organization”
“People are all vulnerable in so many different ways. We go into survival mode a lot of times.”
“People are allowed to be screwed up. That's the most efficient realisation I have ever had. That people are allowed to be screwed up, to fall, and to hardly even make it at all. You're allowed that. Redemption is a part of life. You can be a train wreck today and a few months from now be an absolute winner in life. The problem is when you don't allow life to redeem yourself and others. It's a problem when you're severe and fatalistic. Let the river flow whichever way it may go! Let others die and come back to life again! Don't be hammering nails into coffins. Don't hammer nails into your own coffin, either.”
“People are allowed to find you gross and threatening according to the nature of the free speech you choose to defend.”
Source: Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship
“People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“People are already describing it [Skyfall] as the best Bond flick ever, and I really think it will be.”
“People are already disappointed by their acquaintances, they can not handle anymore hate from stranger, so show some instantaneous kindness and forgiveness to them.”
“People are already p*ssed off at me because I'm athletic and beautiful; to be smart in addition to that... it's like, too much.”
“People are already talking about the next presidential election. There's stories all over about who might run. At a recent speech, a prominent Democrat said that Hillary Clinton should not run because she can't win. Immediately after the speech, Hillary told her husband to shut up.”
“People are already worrying about the ball moving around and all that jazz.”
“People are also dying from vaccinations. Evan, my son, died in front of me for two minutes. You ask any mother in the autism community if we'll take the flu, the measles, over autism and day of the week. I think they need to wake up and stop hurting our kids.”
“People are always a little disconcerted when you don't recognize them, they are so important to themselves, it is a shock to discover of what small importance they are to others. [The human element]”
“People are always afraid of the truth.”
“People are always afraid of the unknown - and banding together against the Thing That Is Different From Us is a time-honoured tradition for rallying the masses.”
“People are always afraid of TV. They are thinking, they will be brain washed and what they don’t know is that social media is worse than TV and they are always glued on it. They spend more hours on social media than anything .
Use social media with caution. Social media feeds on your evil traits. It brings the worse out of you. It targets your inner darker side. It will brain wash you, if you are not careful. They will use it to control you.”
“People are always angry and showing fake outrage, but truth is ,they don't want to resolve issues. They don't want solutions. The reason being, is that they made careers out of hate, beefing, trolls, cyberbully and controversy.”
“People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.”
“People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.”
Source: Man Alone with Himself
“People are always arguing: New York or L.A.? They're both great places, you know.”
“People are always ashamed of the misery that has befallen them, as though it were an act of divine retribution for a long-forgotten sin of theirs”
“People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman.”
Source: I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression
“People are always asking for the latest developments in the unification of this theory with that theory, and they don't give us a chance to tell them anything about what we know pretty well. They always want to know the things we don't know.”
Source: QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
“People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.”
“People are always asking me how much I'm worth. Well, all I can say is, I've got enough money to last me the rest of my life. As long as I die in the next 20 minutes.”
“People are always asking me if I'm Lynyrd Skynyrd or which one's Skynyrd, but I always say, 'Who'd ever have a dumb name like that?'”
“People are always asking me in interviews, 'What do you think of foreign affairs?' I just say, 'I've had a few.'”
“People are always asking me to do Shakespeare - at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It's like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It's great therapy.”
Source: Al Pacino
“People are always asking me to sign my old canvases. It's ridiculous!”
“People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.”
“People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. F**k them, darling. I say what any decent poet would say if you dared ask him to analyze his work: If you see it, dear, then it's there. ... I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics. ... I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.”
“People are always asking me what the world will be like economically in the year 2000. I do know this: in the year 2000, no matter what else happens, there will still be good food in France.”
“People are always asking me when I'm going to retire. Why should I? I've got it two ways - I'm still making movies, and I'm a senior citizen, so I can see myself at half price.”
“People are always asking me why they don't make Westerns like they used to.”
“People are always asking what's the secret of my success, and the answer is easy - at least for me. You have to have a strong inner drive. If you don't have a goal or purpose to strive for, I don't think that you have much of a life. You've got to have something to do that you want to apply yourself to - that's what living is all about.”
“People are always asking, "Is this person in front of me the same on the inside as he or she appears to be on the outside? Is there congruence between what's within that person and the words and actions I'm viewing and hearing externally?" Children ask that about their parents; students ask it about their teachers; parishioners ask it about their pastors and priests; employees ask it about their bosses; and in a democracy, citizens ask it about their political leaders.”
“People are always asking, "What's the purpose of life?" That's easy. Relieve suffering. Create beauty. Make gardens.”
“People are always asking, 'Is everything ok?' Look, I was not depressed, ok? I was just freaking exhausted.”
“People are always backing up when I'm just going to shake their hands.”
“People are always beautiful when you love them.”
Source: Everyone Is Beautiful: A Novel
“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.”
Source: Mrs. Warren's Profession
“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.”
Source: Mrs. Warren's Profession
“People are always calling me a mirror and if a mirror looks into a mirror, what is there to see?”
Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
“People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.”
“People are always changing themselves and their world, dear. Very few of the changes are new. We rather confuse change and newness, I think. What is truly new never changes."
"You speak in riddles, aged progenitor."
"The world worships a certain kind of newness. People are always talking about a new car, or a new drink or p-p-play or house, but these things are not truly new, are they? They begin to get old the minute you acquire them. New is not in things. New is within us. The truly new is something that is new forever: you. Every morning of your life and every evening, every moment is new. You have never lived this moment before and you never will again. In this sense the new is also the eternal.”
Source: Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
“People are always clinging to what they want to hear, discarding the evidence that doesn’t fit with their beliefs, giving greater weight to evidence that does.”
Source: The Key to Everything
“People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to.”
“People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I love you, love your work.' And then the next sentence is, 'I loved your brother.' John made people laugh, and laughter is a powerful thing.”
“People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say,'”