P Quotes
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“People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.”
“People keep asking me about it but I don't want to be famous for being a former anorexic.”
“People keep asking me about why I am not in Russia. I am sorry. I am just as upset as you are. And the only clear, and quick, and honest answer I can come up with is that my father is a Retarded homosexual. That's it. it's not my fault.”
“People keep asking me, how do I frame my work of science and philosophy in such a humane fashion – somehow they believe there’s some sort of method for doing that – and I can’t manage to convey it to them that I know no other way to put it – if you ask a river, how does it flow the way it does, can the river give you a diagram or method, it can’t – the same is with me – I don’t know any other way in which to present my ideas.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“People keep asking me if I am having more fun, being blonde, but I always have fun! Whether I'm blonde, redhead, or brunette! I always have fun.”
“People keep asking me if I'll marry again. It's as if after you've had one car crash you want another.”
“People keep asking me if recently performing the Betty album will influence the song-writing and I think it might. There's songs on that record that I forgot about and it's really nice to have that variety in the set along with tracks from Strap It On, Meantime, Aftertaste, Size Matters, Monochrome, and Seeing Eye Dog.”
“People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done!”
“People keep asking me when I'm going to start singing instead of speaking. I can't sing! I'm rubbish! Why don't they believe me?”
“People keep asking me whether I'm going to vote for Obama or McCain in the election. But I'm like, why bother? There will never be another leader as good as he was.”
“People keep asking me, 'What evil lurks in you to play such bad characters?' There is no evil in me, I just wear tight underwear.”
“People keep asking what I do for a living and I keep saying that I don’t believe in making a living. That it’s a concept that has been twisted. I tell them I believe in making a life and money is a distracting object if there’s anything left at the end of the day and I just want to go on well. Make it through the day. So I smile and raise my glass and they laugh and take my hand, saying ”here’s to the youth”, pointing at me. And I might just be young
and naive
for I still believe in the freedom of choice
of how to spend your life.
So they toast to the youth, who still think she’s free,
and that’s all fine by me.”
“People keep coming up to me and asking, 'How does it feel to be banned for life?' Banned for life. I wasn't banned for life. There was never a word of suspension, probation or ban in that agreement. It was never meant to be part of it.”
“People keep comparing me to people, and I just ignore it.”
“People keep framing this as a religious freedom issue, but there's a difference between practising your religion - which everyone has the right to do - and rubbing your religion in people's faces as a triumphalist political statement, which is what's happening here.”
“People keep giving me rings. But I think a small death ray might be more practical.”
Source: Agatha Heterodyne and the Clockwork Princess
“People keep inviting me back. It's nice to work with the same people when you've had a good time previously, and this is one of those cases.”
“People keep looking for the perfect one, but perfection is an attribute of God alone.”
Source: The Marriage Bureau for Rich People
“People keep me going. I believe people are wonderful.”
“People keep on getting married. Evidently hope is eternal in the human breast.”
“People keep planning their lives
searching security and comfort.
This silence is the only security I know
those who can understand will understand.”
“People keep pushing me to be the center of attention... I would prefer to be on the sidelines, because that's where you see more.”
“People keep referring to me as a standup, and that just doesn't sit well with me because a lot of my friends are standups and they're brilliant at writing jokes, and I'm not.”
“People keep repeating that the main things are love and compassion. Certainly love and compassion are the main things, but it takes knowledge to make love and compassion fruitful. ... It takes just a second to say 'love'. But to acquire knowledge for the well-being and blessing of humanity requires an eternity.”
“People keep saying to me, you're doing a good job, Spider, you're really changing things, Spider. And it's all bullshit. I'm not changing a fucking thing. I'm a writer. A journalist. I can't change shit. What I do is give you the tools to understand the world so that you can change things. And I'm stuck here, only hoping that you do.”
Source: Transmetropolitan: I Hate It Here
“People keep saying, 'How'd you get power?' Nobody gives you power. I'll tell you what power is. Power in my estimation is if people will listen to you. That's it.”
“People keep saying, 'Oh, you're getting all these great reviews, that must make you really happy.' I guess it does, but mostly it's just a relief.”
“People keep speculating about my personal life because I am evasive about it.”
“People keep talking about Article 370 being a temporary provision. It was temporary because a plebiscite had to decide which dominion disputed state of Jammu and Kashmir would join. That plebiscite never happened. India has played its games and it continues to play its games.”
“People keep telling me about the white race and the black race - and it really doesn't make sense. I played Miami, met a fellow two shades darker than me - and his name was Ginsberg! Took my place in two sit-in demonstrations - nobody knew the difference. The he tried for a third lunch counter and blew the whole bit ... asked for blintzes.”
“People keep telling me I never lived up to my potential, that I wasted my talent. . . I just didn't have as much as people thought. I got more ink for doing less than any pitcher who ever lived.”
“People keep telling me that I’m a legend in Merthyr and a legend in many other places. Here’s my understanding on that, what’s a legend? I don’t really know what a legend is, I don’t even know the word. I’m not a King Arthur reincarnate either. I might be one of the Round Table, but I’m not King Arthur.”
Source: Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man
“People keep telling me to read the Bible this year for some reason. REAAAAAD the Bible. Alright. Well. Let's start with Genesis. What's that about? What strikes Me about Genesis, is One man, one woman. They disobey God. then they have to work. Now what do we have in the real world? What do we have? Well we have lots of slutty chicks, usually. Then some fools chasing that used up pussy. And you STILL have to work, huh? Well, you should know that you'll have to pay me a lot of money for me to buy enough pussy to compensate for all this anxiety and stress caused by uhh... shall we call it FREEDOM? Perhaps the greatest words I found recently are by G. Hardin - Natural Selection Favors the Forces of Psychological denial. Boom. Read that guy instead. that does explain a lot, doesn't it?”
“People keep telling me, "You don't like boys!" And I'm saying, "Wow, no, it's just that you're not used to them being objectified in movies, but women are so often objectified in movies and we don't care."”
“People keep telling us about their love affairs, when what we really want to know is how much money they make and how they manage on it.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“People keep themselves at a tolerable height above an infernal abyss toward which they gravitate only by putting out all their strength and lovingly helping one another. They are tied together by ropes, and it's bad enough when the ropes around an individual loosen and he drops somewhat lower than the others into empty space; ghastly when the ropes break and he falls. That's why we should cling to the others.”
Source: Letters to friends, family, and editors
“People keep trying to make me a movie star but they just don't understand. I'm not a movie star, I'm an actor.”
“People keep using the term "pu**y" to refer to someone weak. I say, have you ever studied a "pu**y"? Let me tell you something as a biologist and behaviorist. A "pu**y" is ten times stronger and more resilient than any "d**k" in the world. A vagina can do whatever a penis can do, ten times more efficiently, and that too while bleeding.”
Source: Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability
“People keeps on complaining, but they're not doing anything about the things that they're complaining about.”
“People kept asking, Whats your market? Ive got no idea at all other than me, an eleven year old kid in a 56-year-old body. But there are a lot of us out there.”
“People kept passing our [ with Robert Ben Garant] script around, and suddenly we had this reputation as screenwriters, which we're not - we're sketch comedy guys.”
“People kept their heads down, and Ahsoka would have to do the same, but keeping her head down wasn’t the same as ignoring what was happening around her, and Ahsoka had no intention of doing that.”
Source: Ahsoka
“PEOPLE
Kick them -- they'll forgive you. Flatter them -- they may or may not see through you.
But ignore, them, and they'll hate you, even if they conceal it until they die.”
Source: Caravan of Dreams
“People kill and are killed because they cling too tightly to their own beliefs and ideologies. When we believe that ours is the only faith that contains the truth, violence and suffering will surely be the result.”
Source: Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition
“People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas.”
“People kill themselves, people destroy their lives, just because they have not come to the full realization of the essence of life.”
“People kill very important people to change the season in their life.”
Source: The Story that Changed the World
“People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants: the wise women and the cunning men, the unfortunate, the lost and the strange”
“People killing each other in the Middle East is not news. People not killing each other in the Middle East is news.”
“People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.”