“I think both sides [China and United States] should work hard to build a new type of relationship between big powers. The two sides should cooperate with each other for a win-win result in order to benefit people from the two countries and the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldShouldTwoCountryHardStatesBigsOrderWinningSidesUnitedResultsUnited StatesHard WorkTypeBenefitsChinaBoth SidesTwo SidesWin WinTwo Countries Author:Xi Jinping
“Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can't stand. I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys, in that they make such a big deal about concentrating on security to the point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them.” PeopleThinkingKindI CanMatterBigsBlackWhiteDealsSecurityCrowdsBunchBlack And WhiteMonkeysBig DealConcentrating Author:Linus Torvalds
“It's interesting to see the dislocation between how people perceive a person visually. Apparently on the radio I'm blonde with a big arse.” PeoplePersonsBigsInterestingRadioPerceiveBlondeArsesDislocation Author:Tamsin Greig
“The people who do make big discoveries are the ones who somehow manage to free themselves from conventional ways of thinking and to see the subject from a new perspective.” PeopleThinkingWayBigsSubjectsPerspectiveDiscoveryManageConventionalWay Of ThinkingNew PerspectiveConventional Ways Author:Anthony James Leggett
“I'm the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian's from Cleveland, just to get my name mentioned in the same sentence as two much-better writers, and it's worked like a goddamn charm. Next up, I'm going to grow a big, disgusting beard, just so people will start talking about Alan Moore and me in the same breath.” PeopleTwoBigsNextNamesGrowsTalkingParticularBreathsSentencesCharmDisgustingBeardBrianCleveland Author:Brian K. Vaughan
“Some people in Hollywood think I'm nuts with this bodybuilding stuff. They'll say, 'You're getting too big. You'll hurt your career.' But they don't understandthat high that comes from a workout, the challenge, and the personal victory.” PeopleThinkingBigsStuffChallengesHurtCareersVictoryHollywoodNutsWorkoutBodybuildingPersonal Victory Author:Joe Piscopo
“Oh, my God. What if you wake up some day, and you're 65 or 75, and you never got your novel or memoir written; or you didn't go swimming in warm pools or oceans because your thighs were jiggly or you had a nice big comfortable tummy; or you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life, of imagination and radical silliness and staring off into space like when you were a kid? It's going to break your heart. Don't let this happen.” PeopleIfsHeartBigsHappensKidsImaginationSpaceBreakNovelCreativeNiceWrittenOceanComfortableWake UpWarmMemoirRadicalStaringWhat IfSwimmingPoolPerfectionismThighsBreak Your HeartJuicyCreative LifeSillinessPleasing PeopleStaring Into Space Author:Anne Lamott
“This was one of the places people told me to go, it was one the big trips that you should see: Alaska.” PeopleShouldBigsAlaska Author:Jeff Goldblum
“I see a sea of millions of people going down with their own negative thoughts, going down for the third time in this big sea of iniquity and negativity.” PeopleBigsMillionsSeaNegativeThirdsNegativityNegative ThoughtsIniquityThird Time Author:Jack LaLanne
“How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time.” PeopleWarRealBigsMoralityTestsTreatsHelplessFlunking Author:Thomas Sowell
“The dirty little secret about comics is that the wall to getting published is actually not that high. You can publish your own comic. You can have your comic printed by the same people that print Marvel and DC and Image's comics for, I think, it's about $2,000 for a print run. So you can Kickstart it and get your own comic made. It depends on what is considered success to you. So if you need to be published by the Big Two to feel that you've made it, well, you should start working very hard.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsFeelsShouldWellsLittlesMadeTwoBookHardBigsRunningSecretWallDependsMade ItComicDirtyPrintComic BookPublishPrintedWorking Very Hard Author:Kelly Sue DeConnick
“Bonnie and Clyde became not just a big hit, but a movie that went through young audiences like a first slug of Scotch. It affected clothes, talk, manners. Though set in the thirties it had the feeling of 1966, the most dangerous moment in American young people remembered.” PeopleFirstsMomentsFeelingsBigsFilmYoungAudienceDangerousClothesHollywoodMannersRememberedAffectedScotchSlugs Author:Edward Jay Epstein
“That became a big time in comic books because it's when people were starting to break out into independent stuff, the market was getting choked with speculators and everybody was trying to do their own trick covers.” PeopleTryingBookBigsArtistStuffBreakIndependentStartingTricksComicComic BookBreak OutSpeculators Author:Todd McFarlane
“Survivor has been such a hit, and out of that have come so many interesting stories from people that we don't see on the big screen. We have helped make them incredible celebrities.” PeopleHas BeensStoriesBigsInterestingIncrediblesScreensSurvivorBig ScreenInteresting Stories Author:Mary Hart
“Just look at who won the third debate between Bush and Gore. I knew Bush won, because people liked him more. People just didn't like Gore. But all the journalists thought Gore won big, he cleaned the guy's clock.” PeopleLooksBigsGuyLiteratureThirdsDebateJournalistClockGore Author:Chris Matthews
“In a certain sense, this guy - who is one of the most evil people in the book - he's not really that bad at running the show, because he knows what he's doing, he's smart and he's got the big picture in mind. He's like the Godfather.” PeopleKnowsMindBookShowsBigsRunningGuyCertainEvilLiteratureSmartThis GuyBig PictureEvil People Author:Kevin J. Anderson
“Watch out for dark streets in big cities because there are a lot of strange beings that hang out there at night, let alone the people. Don't you remember anything from your other lives?” PeopleBigsRememberNightDarkCitiesWatchesStreetsStrangeLosingMysticismHanging OutBig CitiesLosing Power Author:Frederick Lenz
“The evening was very professionally organized, and most of the people were exceptionally polite, although it did make me a little nervous when one church official told me after the debate when a big crowd of people surrounded me that he had assigned me a body guard "just in case." Just in case what? I thought Christians were suppose to be exceptionally tolerant. Well, in any case, I guess I was grateful for the gesture, "just in case."” PeopleWellsLittlesBodyBigsChristianChurchCasesAtheismGratefulCrowdsDebateNervousEveningOfficialsOrganizedGesturesPolite Author:Michael Shermer
“When I was young I was on punishment a lot and I used to watch a lot of TV, and I asked myself a question: 'How come people like Mike? How come they like Magic? How come they like Bird? How come they don't like the big guys?' So I just throw a little bit of what they were doing. You smile, you act crazy and silly. And I think people like me because I'm different. I've always been a class clown type of guy. It comes natural.” PeopleThinkingLittlesDifferentBigsYoungUsedGuyBitsNaturalClassWatchesMagicCrazyTvsTypeBasketballLittle BitBirdSillyPunishmentLike MeClownMikeDoing YouBig GuysType Of GuyLike Mike Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“You know what's crazy about Yao? He speaks perfect English. A lot of people don't know that. Perfect English. When I was over there, I called him. He's like, 'Whassup big fella?' Perfect English!” PeopleKnowsBigsSpeakPerfectCrazyBasketballNbaFellas Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“There wasn't a big tradition of comedy at Dartmouth. More than that, there wasn't really anything artsy going on in Hanover, or even in New Hampshire. The cool thing about the school is that there's nothing for people to watch, so if you were to do a play or a sketch or an improv troupe, it was always packed. There's nowhere else for anyone to go. But there was no comedy.” PeopleIfsPlayBigsSchoolWatchesComedyTraditionCool ThingsHampshireNew HampshireDartmouthTroupe Author:Mindy Kaling
“I'm not someone who can sing anything... And my favorite singers aren't people whose voice you would say is amazing. I'm a big Bob Dylan fan, a huge David Bowie fan... none of those people have orthodox, cabaret voices. These are people where what they're singing about is just as important as how they're singing it.” PeopleImportantBigsVoiceFansHugeSingingMy FavoriteSingersOrthodoxBobDylanBowieCabaretFavorite Singer Author:Boy George
“A big issue for Muslims is when Christian evangelizing - telling people about the faith - becomes proselytizing, actively trying to convert. Some Muslims say Christian evangelizing seems like colonialism.” PeopleTryingBigsSeemsChristianIssuesColonialismProselytizing Author:Bob Abernethy
“When you watch CNN and they're giving you news based on tweets that people are sending out, you realize that society is really changing. The collective public have a really big voice that they didn't previously have, and they're influencing the trajectory of how we are socially with one another.” PeopleGivingBigsVoiceRealizingWatchesInfluenceNewsCollectivesTweetCnnTrajectory Author:Megan Fox
“Sometimes a movie series that becomes popular can be a blessing and curse because you get known for that. People don't give you a chance, after that... I'm a big proponent of getting somebody that you always admire and giving them a chance to do something else because they can redefine themselves.” PeopleGivingSometimesBigsChanceKnownBlessingSeriesAdmireCurseBlessings And Curses Author:Robert Rodriguez
“Politics in this country [USA] is always tough. It's always contentious, because this is a big country and a diverse country, and people have strong points of view, and we've got a great diversity of interests.” PeopleCountryBigsStrongInterestViewsDiversityToughPoint Of ViewUsaDiverseContentiousGreat Diversity Author:Barack Obama
“Trust is always a factor. You've just got to look at the big picture, and you've got to look at the small picture - the small picture in the sense that you've got to make every scene work and you've got to deal with what people are presenting you with, too.” PeopleLooksBigsDealsSceneFactorsPresentingBig Picture Author:Willem Dafoe
“My particular thing is discovering what can be done with media and how it can be used. You can't draw people together like one big huge family, people don't want that. They want isolation or a tribal thing.” PeopleWantDoneBigsTogetherUsedMediaParticularHugeDrawsIsolationDiscovering Book:David Bowie: The Last Interview Source: David Bowie: The Last Interview
“I'm not a New Yorker. I grew up in Detroit. A lot of people think it's one big city but they're completely different.” PeopleThinkingDifferentBigsCitiesGrewGrew UpNew YorkersDetroitBig Cities Author:Mike Binder
“If we can sell out a venue that's just as big as this in Omaha, if we can sell out DePaul in Chicago tomorrow, which looks like it's going to happen for 1100 or 1200 people, then obviously everyone will know that we can affect between 700 to 1000 people at a time in damn near every city in America, then I think that's a good start. It also tells people, and gives them an example, how independent hip-hop is able to do this without gigantic corporate support.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsGivingLooksBigsHappensAbleAmericaCitiesSupportExampleTomorrowIndependentSellsHip HopHipsCorporateDamnHopsChicagoVenuesOmaha Author:Immortal Technique
“I don't think polarization is some kind of grand distraction. It's real. People have different commitments, believe in different things and principles, different visions of the good life ... but there is also a degree to which all the really big, successful reform movements in the country had extremely bizarre ideological coalitions.” PeopleThinkingBelieveKindDifferentRealCountryBigsVisionPrinciplesSuccessfulMovementDegreesCommitmentReformDifferent ThingsGood LifeDistractionBizarreIdeologicalCoalitionsPolarizationReform Movements Author:Chris Hayes
“I don't do my show for critics. Early on I did, because I'm a nice guy and I like to be liked by everybody, and I thought, "Hey, I'm just making people laugh, what's the big deal?" There have been all different types of comics that appeal to all different types of people. Why rail on me? But yeah, they really don't like Southern acts.” PeopleHas BeensDifferentShowsBigsGuyDealsLaughingNiceTypeYeahCriticsHeyAppealsSouthernBig DealMaking People LaughRailNice Guy Author:Larry the Cable Guy
“People make a big deal about podcasts but it's basically an online radio show with the sound effects and sidekicks, but because you can curse it's more like satellite radio. Most of the podcasters were morning guys who were fired when Clear Channel decimated the radio landscape.” PeopleShowsBigsGuySoundDealsMorningClearEffectsRadioLandscapeCurseOnlineBig DealSatellitesSidekicksSound Effects Author:Bill Burr
“I've been fortunate, I've been blessed, and I attribute my success to all my fans. People want to do things with you when you have a big fan base, and I have a great fan base.” PeopleWantBigsFansBlessedFortunateAttributesGreat Fans Author:Larry the Cable Guy
“What Lincoln did is he gathered people around him the way that I believe President Obama is doing by calling Republicans, talking to them, trying to work with them. And when that happens, big things get solved.” PeopleWayTryingBelieveBigsHappensI BelievePresidentTalkingCallingRepublicanPresident ObamaBig Things Author:Ray LaHood
“The public wants a great product, but they also want more layers of value. So it's lifestyle, it's takeaway, it's entertainment. It's all of those things and social media facilitates a big chunk of that, because they want to touch and feel you, they want to talk to someone about it, they want to join a community of other people who dance to the beat of a different drummer.” PeopleWantFeelsDifferentBigsValuesSocialCommunityMediaProductsBeatsEntertainmentSocial MediaLifestyleLayersDrummerChunksFacilitateTakeaways Author:RuPaul
“I like people with big talents and small neuroses - not always an easy combination to find. I've discovered that if the neurosis is too big, it diminishes the talent and you wind up working too hard for what you get.” PeopleIfsHardBigsEasyTalentWindCombinationDiminishNeurosisWorking Too Hard Author:Mel Brooks
“Any good parody takes a grain of truth and exaggerates it for the big screen. People ask me if I'm offended at all and I say not in the least.” PeopleIfsBigsAsksScreensAsk MeGrainOffendedParodyBig Screen Author:Mort Crim
“It [TV] is the cancer of film. It's why people can't be educated to film. In the late '60s, we expected to see a movie or two every week and be stimulated, excited and inspired. And we did. Every week after week. Antonioni, Goddard, Truffaut - this endless list of people. And then comes television and home video. I know how to work exactly for the big screen, but it doesn't matter what I think about the art of movie-making versus TV.” PeopleThinkingKnowsArtTwoMatterHomeBigsFilmKnow HowWeekTelevisionTvsLateInspiredCancerExcitedExpectedScreensListsEndlessVideoEducatedVersusBig ScreenMovie MakingHome Videos Author:Jack Nicholson
“I try to be careful and put things in perspective. There are people who have challenging lives and work hard physically and mentally. I consider myself a lucky person because I get to go on stage and tell jokes for an hour. If I miss a connection here and there or my room isn't ready now and then? It's not a big deal.” PeopleIfsTryingPersonsHardBigsHoursChallengesRoomsDealsStageMissingReadyHard WorkPerspectiveGoes OnLuckyJokesConnectionsCarefulBe CarefulNow And ThenBig DealHere And ThereLucky Person Author:Brian Regan
“I think I've become more relaxed throughout my career. I don't feel the need to jump up and down and make a big noise to get people to pay attention to me. I don't need to do punk rock gestures or eat a cockroach or do something weird to say I exist.” PeopleThinkingNeedsFeelsBigsPayAttentionCareersRocksDown AndNoisePay AttentionPunkGesturesRelaxedUp And DownPunk RockCockroaches Author:Nicolas Cage
“Hire people inspired to achieve something big over people who demand something big before they feel inspired.” PeopleFeelsBigsAchieveDemandInspired Author:Simon Sinek
“Turn strategy into simple language so every staff member knows it. People must understand why you are doing, what you are doing and where you are going. Big almost impossible, highly meaningful goal + respectful & supportive team is the winning combination of fear & love. Meaning is the biggest sources of energy that gets you up in the morning.” PeopleKnowsBigsTurnsWinningEnergyLanguageGoalSimpleMorningImpossibleTeamSourceMembersStrategyMeaningfulCombinationWhere You AreStaffSupportiveRespectfulLove MeansFear Of LoveWhere You Are GoingStaff Members Author:Michael Rennie
“Theres a stigma on the word therapy. People relate it to big problems. Thats something we have to change. Going to therapy can be very healthy. It can change the way you see things and treat others.” PeopleWayProblemBigsHealthyTreatsRelateTherapyStigmaBig Problems Author:Juan Pablo Galavis
“I love my body as it is. People in the industry have been telling me to lose weight for years but I like the way I look. I give credit to my mom for helping me feel good about my appearance - for making sure I never felt embarrassed about my body, because she was never worried about looking too big.” PeopleWayGivingFeelsYearsLooksHas BeensHelpingBodyBigsFeltLosesMomIndustryWeightAppearanceMy MomCreditFeel GoodWorriedEmbarrassedLose Weight Author:Christina Hendricks
“Most of us, like the assembly line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people.” PeopleEnoughBigsJobsSpiritLinesWorkersAssemblyAssembly Line Book:The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century Source: The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century
“When I moved to L. A. with this little wimpy garage band, the first people we met were the Doors. Then we met Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin. All of the people who died of excess were our big brothers and sisters. So I said to myself: How do you become a legend and enjoy it? The answer is to create a character as legendary as those guys and leave that character on the stage.” PeopleFirstsLittlesSaidCharacterBigsGuyEnjoyAnswersDoorsStageBrotherMetsBandDiedMovedLegendsExcessBrothers And SistersGarageLegendaryHendrix Author:Alice Cooper
“We must not drift away from the humble works, because these are the works nobody will do. It is never too small. We are so small we look at things in a small way. But God, being Almighty, sees everything great. Therefore, even if you write a letter for a blind man or you just go sit and listen, or you take the mail for him, or you visit somebody or bring a flower to somebody-small things-or wash clothes for somebody, or clean the house. Very humble work, that is where you and I must be. For there are many people who can do big things. But there are very few people who will do the small things.” PeopleIfsMenWayWritingLooksBigsHouseCan DoFlowerClothesLettersBlindCleanHumbleMailAlmightyBig ThingsSmall ThingsBlind Man Author:Mother Teresa
“People are so obsessed with making their careers and having a big house; then you realize that kills your dreams. It even kills what makes your life because you get so busy inside.” PeopleDreamBigsHouseRealizingCareersBusyObsessedYour DreamsBig Houses Author:Stephanie Szostak
“Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They've long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.” PeopleThinkingWantLongImportantStatesEnoughBigsGovernmentRunningChoicesHouseCitiesCompanySituationAcceptingLandMediaInformationJudgingNewsCapableSmartMachinesPaidWorkersCongressPopulationCriticalDumbCorporationsPocketsOwnersHallsSenateCritical ThinkingObedientCity Hall Author:George Carlin