“My father never ran for office or supported anybody for office, and was not engaged in that at all. But I think people throughout the area were just in a constant state of tension - I mean, adults.” PeopleThinkingMeanStatesFatherOfficeAdultsAreasConstantRanEngagedTension Author:Jeff Sessions
“I am somewhat influenced by the years that I've spent trying to actually get things done, whether it was reforming education in Arkansas or a survey and Legal Services Corporation board when President [Jimmy ]Carter appointed me and trying to get lawyers for poor people. I have worked in these areas. I know it's more than just a hope. You've got to translate it into a policy that leads to action.” PeopleKnowsTryingYearsDoneActionPresidentPoorPolicyAreasLawyerCorporationsBoardsTranslatePoor PeopleJimmyThings DoneCarterSurveysArkansasPresident Jimmy Carter Author:Hillary Clinton
“There are certain neighborhoods in America like that - like in Pittsburgh, where I'm from - where people wouldn't think it's even livable for human beings. Those are the areas that I connect with because I come from places like that, and I just think it's interesting how the rest of the world acts like it doesn't exist. But a lot of the best things come from there.” PeopleThinkingWorldHumansAmericaCertainHuman BeingsInterestingAreasBest ThingsNeighborhoodPittsburgh Author:Wiz Khalifa
“I think people are really starting to rebel against that. And I think there's going to be more and more gray areas. Hopefully that means we'll see more stories with characters that could be interchangeable with men.” PeopleThinkingMenMeanCharacterStoriesAreasStartingHopefullyGrayRebelGray Area Author:Evan Rachel Wood
“There is no question that a very large number of people have to move; you cannot live where the water comes over you. I have not heard one suggestion on how we are going to move one hundred million people out of low-lying areas and what countries would be willing to accept them.” PeopleCountryWould BeMovingLyingWaterNumbersAcceptingMillionsHeardWillingLowsHundredAreasOver YouSuggestionsLarge Numbers Author:Walter Munk
“I let go usually by talking to many people in different areas, in different realms of life that make me look at what I'm dealing with as being small fries stuff, you know?” PeopleKnowsLooksDifferentStuffTalkingLetting GoAreasRealmsFries Author:Chuck D
“We wanted to see how access to care can be expanded and service quality can be improved when one uses a participatory approach to program development. We showed that major changes become possible if you work in a participatory manner, listen to local people, diagnose what the problems are, provide training and identify where there are opportunities for mobilizing local resources to take action. In time leaders from other municipalities expressed interest in replication and the project succeeded in expanding innovations to three other areas.” PeopleIfsUseProblemCareActionWantedThreeOpportunityInterestQualityLeaderDevelopmentProjectsApproachMajorsTrainingResourcesAreasProgramInnovationAccessLocalsExpandingMunicipalityMajor ChangeQuality ServiceReplication Author:Ruth Simmons
“I was able to meet young black people from all over the country who were focused on education and on elevating themselves.I'm endorsing and supporting this initiative because I believe college is a blessing, and for young black people coming out of areas that are struggling ... for them to see college as their future, that's a blessing.” PeopleBelieveCountryAbleYoungI BelieveBlackStruggleCollegeBlessingAreasFocusedBlack PeopleComing OutInitiativeElevatingEndorsing Author:Common
“Everyone's different. I mean, some people write journals for their characters and stuff, but that was never really my area.” PeopleWritingMeanDifferentCharacterStuffAreasJournal Author:Brady Corbet
“I think in theater it demands that you say the same words every night and make it feel fresh and new. Improv demands that you be operating at the highest level of your creativity intelligence. So these two skills are both very important but I've seen people who are very skilled at one area struggle with the other. Either improvisers feel constrained by having to say the same thing over and over again or people who are really good at doing scripted work feel intimidated and exposed doing improvisation.” PeopleThinkingFeelsTwoImportantNightLevelsCreativityStruggleSkillsDemandHighestAreasTheaterExposedEvery NightImprovisationIntimidated Author:Gillian Jacobs
“I think that when you have any folks in our population who live under the threat of violence, who live under the threat of crime, who don't have the opportunity that others have because the schools in our urban areas are a dreaded failure, because of the positions that Hillary Clinton has taken and the people who support her, that I think any candidate should speak out to say that that type of thing is unacceptable.” PeopleThinkingShouldSchoolOpportunitySpeakSupportTakenViolenceCrimePositionTypeAreasThreatClintonFolksPopulationCandidatesUrbanSpeaks OutUrban Areas Author:Chris Christie
“I want everyone to know that Russia in general and the Russian leadership, it is something effective and properly functioning. That the country itself, its institutions, leaders are represented by healthy, capable people who are ready for cooperation with our partners in every single area: sports, politics, fight against modern threats. I have nothing but a positive feeling about it.” PeopleKnowsWantCountryFeelingsFightingSportsLeaderModernReadyHealthyCapableAreasInstitutionsThreatPartnersRussiaCooperationPositive Feelings Author:Vladimir Putin
“Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from. But people from Obama's camp, and Obama himself, reached out to me and asked for my help on the campaign. We've sat and had dinner, and we've spoken on the phone. He's a very sharp guy. Very charming. Very cool.” PeopleHelpingGuyGrowing UpGrowingAreasPhonesDinnerCampaignsSatCampsCharmingVery Cool Author:Jay-Z
“Bankruptcies will be up 18 to 42 percent around racinos areas tracks as people lose their money” PeopleLosesPercentAreasTrackGamblingBankruptcy Author:John Warren Kindt
“Marijuana has become like currency. Anytime you grow a crop like marijuana, or wheat, or corn, or anything that people consume on a daily basis, you're [getting] into a huge economic area.” PeopleGrowsEconomicHugeAreasBasesMarijuanaCurrencyCornCropsWheat Author:Tommy Chong
“Where people are using phones in rural areas their risk of brain cancer is higher than in urban areas.” PeopleBrainRiskHigherAreasPhonesCancerUrbanRural AreasUrban AreasBrain Cancer Author:Devra Davis
“The premature migration of very large numbers of people from rural areas to urban areas can give rise to a lot of strains to the urban infrastructure, which can also create problems of crime - law-and-order problems.” PeopleGivingProblemLawOrderNumbersCrimeAreasUrbanStrainInfrastructureLarge NumbersMigrationLaw And OrderPrematureRural AreasUrban Areas Author:Manmohan Singh
“You can't say "the people of Aleppo" because the majority of the people of Aleppo are living in the area under the control of the government, so you cannot talk about the people of Aleppo.” PeopleGovernmentAreasMajority Author:Bashar al-Assad
“Maybe the standards should be higher to be an officer. People will say there area high standards, but clearly they're not high enough.” PeopleShouldEnoughHigherStandardsAreasOfficersHigh Standards Author:Brandon Marshall
“Punishment by definition isn't going to help. So what you need to do is to help people to change and recover is to help them find different areas of passion and help them find better ways of coping. Because about 50 percent of people with addiction have a preexisting mental illness, about two-thirds have had some type of severe trauma during childhood, and they are not using to the point where they're risking their lives because it's fun. They're doing something to help them cope.” PeopleWayNeedsTwoDifferentHelpingPassionFunChildhoodTypePercentAreasThirdsAddictionDefinitionsIllnessTraumaPunishmentMental IllnessSevereBetter WaysCoping Author:Maia Szalavitz
“Donald Trump has called for extreme vetting for people coming into this country so that we don't bring people into the United States who are hostile to our bill of rights freedoms, who are hostile to the American way of life, but I will say, Donald Trump and I are committed to suspending the Syrian refugee program and programs on immigration from areas of the world that have been compromised by terrorism.” PeopleWorldWayHas BeensCountryStatesUnitedUnited StatesRightsTrumpAreasProgramBillsCommittedExtremesTerrorismImmigrationRefugeeHostileBill Of RightsAmerican Way Of LifeSyrian Refugees Author:Mike Pence
“The fact that this highly classified information of very, very important people in many cases was so poorly protected demonstrates that cyber security is just one more area where the Obama administration has failed.” PeopleImportantFactsCasesInformationAreasAdministrationBarackJust OneProtectedCybersecurityClassified Information Author:Donald Trump
“The traditional model for a company like Coca-Cola is to hire one big advertising agency and essentially outsource all of its creativity in that area. But Coca-Cola does not do it that way. It knows how to manage creative people and creative teams and it has been quite adept at building a network that includes the Creative Artists Agency in Hollywood, which is a talent agency.” PeopleKnowsWayDoeHas BeensBigsArtistCompanyCreativityKnow HowCreativeTeamTalentBuildingModelsAreasHollywoodTraditionalAdvertisingManageAgencyCreative PeopleCreative ArtAdvertising AgenciesAdeptCreative ArtistsCoca ColaCreative Team Author:John Kao
“You do things other people cannot do, so just stay in the moment as you improve the other areas.” PeopleMomentsAreas Author:John Calipari
“The daredevil aspect to what I did there is moving a monstrously big ship over a mountain in the jungle of Peru with 800 or 900 or so native people from the area. So that idea was wild but the way it was executed was prudent. Nobody was ever hurt and when it became clear that we had to be more secure with the posts that would hold the ship, I spent 12 days having a post built that would have withstood the force of 10 times the weight of my ship.” PeopleWayIdeasBigsMovingForceHurtClearMountainBuiltAreasAspectWeightShipsSecurePostsNativeJunglePrudentPeruDaredevil Author:Werner Herzog
“We were fortunate at that time we were working with Virgin, and with Flood, probably more well-known as Brian Eno's engineer now and U2's producer, etc. Even though we weren't working in a strictly popular music area, which was great, we were lucky enough to work with people who were on the cusp of those sort of things.” PeopleWellsEnoughKnownLuckyAreasProducersFortunateEtcEngineersFloodVirginsWell KnownBrianPopular MusicCusp Author:Stephen Mallinder
“In the area of social righteousness we cannot be right on the inside and not do it. We cannot! Of course we have people who pretend that they can, but it simply isn't true.” PeopleCoursesSocialAreasRighteousness Author:Dallas Willard
“Brexit for me was really interesting because I was in the heart of Yorkshire, which is a "leave" area. It was quite odd actually, a real deep sense of unease. You felt very odd for your country. You have lots of people that are angry. It's a very physical and public stand that these people are making.” PeopleHeartRealCountryFeltInterestingAreasAngryOddReally InterestingYorkshireReal Deep Author:Ruth Wilson
“Mind you, I live in an area of Atlanta that is nearly 88% black. But in six days in and around Melbourne, I saw maybe three people of African origin and maybe one easily identifiable Australian aborigine.” PeopleMindThreeBlackSawsSixAreasAustralianAtlantaMelbourne Author:Jim Goad
“Permafrost in the soil [is melting], in the boreal and arctic areas in the world, and, probably even more alarming in the last six or eight months, the data on what is happening to the ice shelves in Greenland and the west Antarctic has begun to cause people to radically reassess the earlier conviction that those ice shelves were stable on a kind of century-long time scale.” PeopleWorldKindLongLastsCausesCenturyMonthsSixLong TimeHappeningsAreasWestConvictionEightScalesIceDataSoilStableShelvesMeltingArcticGreenland Author:Bill McKibben
“Even in a city like Barcelona, there are still some people in the city who are angry because that waterfront area is a big tourist destination, and all the rents went up, and they had to move.” PeopleStillsBigsMovingCitiesAreasAngryDestinationTouristsBarcelona Author:Gary Hustwit
“The founders did not want population centers to dictate to the rest of the country. They had already seen that happen in Europe in their day, and they had seen the kind of people that gravitate toward various areas.” PeopleWantKindCountryHappensEuropeAreasPopulationVariousFounders Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There are so many different areas to explore. There are so many different types of people. It can crush your dreams or help them come true.” PeopleDifferentHelpingDreamTypeAreasYour DreamsCrush Author:Emma Stone
“[CIA manipulating] has its roots in internal Pakistani affairs. It's a horrible development and phenomenon which goes back to radical Islamisation under Zia and taking away the long standing rights of people in the tribal areas [who were left largely alone].” PeopleLongLeftRightsDevelopmentAreasStandingRootsAffairHorribleRadicalInternalsPhenomenonCia Author:Noam Chomsky
“They [people from the Donald Trump cabinet] haven't had experience in the areas that they're being asked to manage in a very complicated world and a very complicated government.” PeopleWorldGovernmentHavensTrumpAreasComplicatedManageCabinetsComplicated World Author:Claire McCaskill
“Talking about winning and losing is like if you're talking about two armies fighting on two territories, which is not the case. Those [terrorists] are gangs, coming from abroad, infiltrate inhabited areas, kill the people, take their houses, and shoot at the army. The army cannot do the same, and the army doesn't exist everywhere.” PeopleIfsTwoFightingHouseWinningTalkingCasesLosingAreasArmyTerroristTerritoryGangWinning And LosingFighting On Author:Bashar al-Assad
“According to what we've been seeing recently in the area where the terrorists control, where they ban people from going to schools, ban young men from shaving their beards, and women have to be covered from head to toe, and let's say in brief they live the Taliban style in Afghanistan, completely the same style.” PeopleMenSchoolYoungSeeingStyleAreasTerroristYoung ManCoveredAfghanistanToesBeardBansTalibanShaving Author:Bashar al-Assad
“I was leaving the Belfast court, where I had been called to answer a very flimsy charge, later dismissed. You're relatively safe in such areas in the Irish community, but to go to downtown Belfast for me is dangerous. My appearance in court had been well advertised by the police. I think it was too much of a coincidence that the people who shot me were just passing by.” PeopleThinkingWellsCommunityAnswersToo MuchDangerousSafeShotsAreasPoliceCourtLeavingAppearancePassingPassingsCoincidenceDowntownPassing ByBelfast Author:Gerry Adams
“There was a really monstrous and almost literal genocide in the Mayan area, specifically under RÃos Montt. By now it has been recognized somewhat by Guatemalan society. In fact, Montt was under trial for some crimes. But the U.S. prohibits people from fleeing here.” PeopleHas BeensFactsCrimeAreasTrialsGenocideMonstrousLiteralFleeing Author:Noam Chomsky
“I had relatives in New York City who I stayed with. And in those days, the area from Union Square down Fourth Avenue had small bookstores, many of which were run by Spanish immigrants who'd fled after [Francisco] Franco's victory. I spent time in them, and also in the offices of Freie Arbeiter Stimme (Free Worker's Voice) with anarchists. I picked up a lot of material and talked to people, and it became a major influence.” PeopleRunningVoiceCitiesInfluenceNew YorkMaterialsVictoryOfficeMajorsAreasUnionsWorkersImmigrantsNew York CitySquaresFourthAvenuesAnarchistBookstoresFrancoFrancisco Franco Author:Noam Chomsky
“There are many other areas. And I am confident that each of them is of interest to both the people of the United States of America and the Russian people.” PeopleStatesAmericaInterestUnitedUnited StatesAreasUnited States Of America Author:Vladimir Putin
“Here is an example: while resolving current issues, our American colleagues made a proposal on the Syrian settlement but then suddenly declared at the UN that they were not going to discuss anything with us. It is necessary to understand what people want in one department versus another department of the United States. Do they have a common position? And this happened many times on very many areas of our cooperation.” PeopleWantMadeStatesUnitedCommonUnited StatesIssuesHappenedExamplePositionAreasCurrentsDepartmentCooperationColleaguesVersusProposalSettlement Author:Vladimir Putin
“I think what is true is that there's been an underlying division in the United States. Some of it has to do with the fact that economic growth and recovery tends to be stronger in the cities and in urban areas. In some rural areas, particularly those that were reliant on manufacturing, there has been weaker growth, stagnation, people feeling as if their children won't do as well as they will.” PeopleIfsThinkingWellsChildrenHas BeensStatesFactsFeelingsGrowthUnitedCitiesUnited StatesEconomicAreasStrongerRecoveryDivisionUrbanEconomic GrowthManufacturingStagnationRural AreasUrban Areas Author:Barack Obama
“When we, for example, see shifts of huge production lines from certain areas to other countries, people tend to ask the question, "Where's my place in this modern world?" We have this here, this tendency in our country, we have it in other countries.” PeopleWorldCountryCertainAsksLinesModernExampleHugeAreasProductionsTendenciesOur CountryOther CountriesModern World Author:Angela Merkel
“Trying to keep a society together, trying to keep the older and the younger people together, trying to keep those who live in rural areas together with those who live in cities is one of the most important and most noble tasks of politicians these days.” PeopleTryingImportantTogetherCitiesPoliticianAreasTasksNobleThese DaysRural Areas Author:Angela Merkel
“Our people are dying, poverty and unemployment are on the rise, but the rest of the world says that Musharraf is needed because [only] he can stop nuclear proliferation, [only] he [can launch] an operation in the tribal areas. So he manipulates and dangles some kind of carrot in front of the world all the time. This is not good for the people [of Pakistan], and I think the world has got it all wrong.” PeopleThinkingWorldKindPovertyDyingFrontsNeededAreasNuclearOperationsUnemploymentPakistanManipulateCarrotsProliferationNuclear ProliferationMusharraf Author:Benazir Bhutto
“All the people I've met, many outside of cinema, knew everything perfectly about one thing or one subject or one area.” PeopleOne ThingSubjectsMetsAreasCinema Author:Sergio Leone
“If we get agriculture right in Africa, where most of the people now are working in that sector, not only would it help boost development but we will be secure in terms of food and nutrition and then be able to move on to other areas.” PeopleIfsHelpingAbleMovingTermDevelopmentAreasSecureNutritionAgricultureBoost Author:Kofi Annan
“I still don't feel responsible for what Donald Trump says or does. But I do feel a responsibility as president of the United States to make sure that I facilitate a good transition and I present to him as well, as the American people my best thinking, my best ideas about how you move the country forward. To speak out with respect to areas where I think the Republican party's wrong, but to pledge to work with them on those things that I think will advance the causes of security and prosperity and justice and inclusiveness in America.” PeopleThinkingFeelsWellsDoeStillsIdeasCountryStatesAmericaMovingSpeakCausesPresidentJusticeUnitedPartyResponsibilityUnited StatesSecurityTrumpRepublicanAreasResponsibleProsperityTransitionRepublican PartyPledgeSpeaks OutFacilitateInclusiveness Author:Barack Obama
“My ex-husband has been one of my best teachers, and I believe that the areas of our life and the people in our lives that present the most problems to us - they really are our best teachers. They're teaching us lessons that we have to learn anyway, and if we don't accept the lesson from them, there will just be another teacher to step in and take their place.” PeopleIfsBelieveHas BeensProblemI BelieveAcceptingStepsTeacherOur LivesTeachingLessonsHusbandAreasExesBest TeacherEx HusbandPeople In Our Lives Author:Rene Marie