P Quotes
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“People like me start organizing conferences and editing journals, even become tenured professors talking about Empire of the Senseless with a bunch of wide-eyed kids from the farmland. If only one of those kids goes back home and lets her hogs out of the pen to go plum wild rolling around in their own slop while the neighboring farmers scratch their chins, then, isn't that worth it? Insert the same scenario with stockbrokers, stock-car drivers, and stock characters in the post-baccalaureate working man's sideshow, and well, that's viral reproduction.”
“People like me took Donald Trump literally, but never seriously. But his supporters took him seriously and not literally.”
“People like me who are reform-minded ignore the people who say, 'Just criticize and don't do anything and let's win by default.' That's ridiculous.”
“People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.”
“People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways.”
“People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.”
“People like me, LB, the truly great ones ... we are always alone.”
Source: And Another Thing...
“People like me, who care about printing, constitute the tiniest lunatic fringe in the nation.”
Source: Leonard Baskin
“People like me, whose income largely comes from dividends, should pay more taxes. The problem is that taxes aren't used efficiently.”
“People like Mr. Hitchens are ready to fight to the last drop of other people's blood, and it's utterly and completely contemptible.”
“People like music when they're in love, but they don't need it as much. You need music when you're missing someone or you're pining for someone or you're forgetting someone or you're trying to process what just happened.”
“People like my films. They understand me through my films; it's like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.”
“People like my grandmother, who have no home but in memory, learn to be very skilled in the art of recollection.”
Source: The Shadow Lines
“People like my voice and say I can sing, but I don't like microphones in front of my face: it distracts me.”
“People like myself say, 'Fix the problem. Put him in the general [prison] population. The moral prisoners will deal with him in a way we don't have the nerve to do.'”
“People like mystery. They want nothing explained, because when things are explained then there is no hope left. I have seen folk dying and known there is nothing to be done, and I am asked to go because the priest will soon arrive with his dish covered by a cloth, and everyone prays for a miracle. It never happens. And the person dies and I get blamed, not God or the priest, but I!”
Source: Vagabond
“People like nonfiction presented to them in a certain way, so that they don't have to think about whether it's true or not. They like it to have that imprimatur of respectability, of genuineness.”
“People like Obama think you are incapable of doing anything yourself.”
“People Like or Respect YOU, because YOU care THEM.”
“People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely oral people - a conversation with no one and yet with everyone. What could be stranger than the silence one encounters when addressing a question to a text? What could be more metaphysically puzzling than addressing an unseen audience, as every writer of books must do? And correcting oneself because one knows that an unknown reader will disapprove or misunderstand?”
Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“People like passion in politics.”
“People like people who help them like themselves.”
“People like rumors. They're going to say things like, 'You was at the club with Lil' Kim, and you and Kanye West got into a fist fight.' You can't get upset. You've got to keep hope alive.”
“People like scandals.”
“People like scary stories. There's a fascination with fear themes, and we want to face those things in a weird, subconscious way.”
“People like Sean Penn, he is someone that is politically progressive and yet is still at the top of his game in the industry. So I love that he is out there just virtually shaming all the people that voted for Prop 8. He was a really great example of a straight ally, someone who used his talent and used his ability to further our cause, not just for political progressiveness but also specifically for gay marriage and specifically for Harvey Milk's entire life.”
“People like secrets. Creative people really like secrets.”
Source: Finding the Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Keep, and Nurture Talent
“People like Shakira shouldnt have record contracts. She cant even speak English.”
“People like stories that are bigger than life, about characters with unusual powers. And when you get all the characters in the zodiac, it's so colorful, and it's so rich in different attitudes that the characters have.”
“People like Ted Cruz, who has tried to position himself as the best second choice for [Donald] Trump supporters, wouldn't condemn him.”
“People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish.”
“People like that don't need a reason apart from "because I can". They have a nightmare and try to make it happen.”
“People like the comedy more when they care about the characters.”
“People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject it because it doesn't fit with what they already know.”
Source: Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
“People like the Mormons and the Scientologists, who I think should combine and make a Mormontologist because what they believe is just so out there it's just laughable.”
“People like the robber barons assumed that the doctrine of the survival of the fittest authenticated them as deserving power. You know, "I'm the richest. Therefore, I'm the best. God's in his heaven, etc." And that reaction of the robber barons was so irritating to people that it made it unfashionable to think of an economy as an ecosystem. But the truth is that it is a lot like an ecosystem. And you get many of the same results.”
“people like the Underwoods looked at a teenager and saw someone they could fix rather than someone they should accept.”
Source: Aftermath
“People like the way dreams have of sticking to the soul.”
Source: Pippin: Easy Piano Sheet Music from the Broadway Musical
“People like their women to be lovely. Women are a lot of different things.”
Source: Tangleweed and Brine
“People like them never expect darkness to crawl into their perfect lives.
Robots, both of them, NPCs wandering around in the matrix as a reminder to fall in line with the made up fallacy of an American Dream—a nickname for an idea so perfectly aligned with its inevitable destiny of doom it sounds preplanned.
They pose as a remnant of the nuclear family, an idiotic ideal that catastrophically blew apart nearly immediately after conception—an intelligent design behind the hellscape we know as society.”
Source: Diary of a Damsel Dame
“People like to act like they eat Centauri Honey every day.”
“People like to be able to identify a brand, and I don't really have one.”
“People like to be around those who give off positive energy.”
“People like to be seen—even if it’s by the cold, cruel eyes of fate.”
Source: The Tower of Nero
“People like to blame Mexican food, but look at what's happening globally, look at all the fast foods and products filled with trans fat. Before the Mexican Revolution, a hundred years ago, people were eating what now macrobiotics tells us to eat, corn, black beans, rice. That's what people were eating - and chile peppers. That's a healthy diet.”
“People like to blame Mexican food, but look at what's happening globally, look at all the fast foods and products filled with trans fat. Before the Mexican Revolution, a hundred years ago, people were eating what now macrobiotics tells us to eat, corn, black beans, rice. That's what people were eating - and chile peppers. That's a healthy diet. And also they ate a lot of vegetables.”
“People like to cherry-pick the parts of their career that they're either in the midst of or that they're the most proud of, but the truth is careers and lives are tapestries.”
“People like to clap back at the people who speak out most.”
“People like to come up to me and tell me that I’ve got nice ink. Except these tattoos aren’t just decorations. They are declarations. Every tattoo I have tells its own story about who I am. Drug-free. Honor. And a war against the system.”
“People like to complain about the state of contemporary literature, but I can only assume they don't read it very widely.”