“What they're still unsure about, particularly some moderate Republicans, we know gender there is difference, I think Donald Trump has to seal the deal by letting people feel comfortable to vote for him.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsStillsDifferencesDealsTrumpRepublicanComfortableVoteGenderModeratesSealsUnsure Author:John Brabender
“We are still struggling with people who don't feel comfortable going into museums. As a visual artist I ask how artists can be part of enacting a change.” PeopleFeelsStillsArtistAsksStruggleComfortableVisualsMuseumsVisual ArtVisual Artist Author:Nick Cave
“I was recently in Israel doing my work and casting for models in the streets of Haifa and Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, meeting young Israelis and Palestinians and Falasha, Ethiopian Jews who had migrated to Israel in the '70s. They're obsessed with Bob Marley. They're obsessed with Kanye West. They're obsessed with resistance culture, people who find that they're not necessarily comfortable in their own personal and national skin.” PeopleYoungCultureStreetsComfortableModelsSkinsMeetingsWestJewIsraelResistanceObsessedBobPalestinianCastingJerusalemMarley Author:Kehinde Wiley
“There are a few societies that show signs of having been very rational about the physics of construction and the physics of real life. Some of the old middle-Eastern societies had downdraft systems over whole cities, and passive, rapid-evaporation ice-making systems. They were rational people using good physical principles to make themselves comfortable without additional sources of energy.” PeopleRealWholeShowsEnergyCitiesPrinciplesMiddleSourceComfortablePhysicsReal LifeRationalIceConstructionPassiveEasternRapidsEvaporation Author:Bill Mollison
“I don't think people should do things that they're not comfortable with, unless they want to stretch themselves in that way and challenge themselves.” PeopleThinkingWayWantShouldChallengesComfortable Author:Gaby Hoffmann
“I think Donald Trump simply needs to make himself look less bigoted, less dangerous, more comfortable to people.” PeopleThinkingNeedsLooksDangerousTrumpComfortable Author:E. J. Dionne
“I don't want ever to be a president who is comfortable and at ease with killing people.” PeopleWantPresidentComfortableKillingEase Author:Barack Obama
“It's weird how you can make people feel comfortable, and then ask them an uncomfortable question, but it doesn't ruin their day.” PeopleFeelsAsksComfortableRuinsUncomfortable Author:Samantha Bee
“You build the bonds through the community and police force, build bonds of understanding, and then when people feel comfortable in their communities, that gap between the police and the communities they serve narrows. And when that gap narrows, it's safer for the communities and it's safer for the police.” PeopleFeelsForceUnderstandingCommunityComfortablePoliceGapsPolice Force Author:Tim Kaine
“I think that the key to any interview is allowing people to feel comfortable enough that they forget they're being interviewed.” PeopleThinkingFeelsEnoughForgetKeysComfortableInterviewsAllowing Author:Brian McGinn
“People called me a tomboy. That was the term used then. I was very much someone who was comfortable in male clothing, and even later when I grew up, I was constantly wearing dungarees, wearing guy shirts.” PeopleUsedGuyTermGrewComfortableGrew UpMalesShirtsClothingsDungarees Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc.” PeopleRaceRightsMovementComfortableRelationSlaveryCivil RightsEtcRace RelationsCivil Rights Movement Author:Paul Beatty
“I only made x amount of albums in 20 years and to still be living comfortably. A lot of people and friends look at me and be like yo Ra how do you do it? You don't go on tour every year and you don't make an album every year, you chill with your family and watch TV. Everyone else is out on tour getting that money. But I managed to do my thing right with the help of my accountant and I'm still comfortable.” PeopleYearsLooksMadeStillsHelpingWatchesTvsGoes OnAmountComfortableAlbumsOur FamilyLook At MeChillAccountantsLiving Comfortably Author:Rakim
“Now, of course, people know that over the last several months prior to February 21st, 1965, the OAAU and MMI tried to get away from the old practices of checking people at the door for weapons. They wanted people to feel more comfortable.” PeopleKnowsFeelsWantedLastsCoursesPracticeDoorsMonthsComfortableWeaponsGet AwayFebruary Author:Manning Marable
“I'm starting to be a lot more comfortable with allowing people to decide for themselves and almost creating a situation that forces people to decide for themselves whether they like it or don't like it or agree with the character or disagree with the character.” PeopleCharacterForceSituationComfortableCreatingAgreeStartingAllowingDisagree Author:Will Smith
“I know this, that there were thousands and thousands of hours given to Hillary Clinton's e-mail server and Benghazi. It seems to me we need bipartisanship now to look at exactly what happened in this election and exactly the things that people like James Comey did and put it in context to make sure we have all the facts, because I don't think anyone is comfortable with how this election played out.” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsLooksFactsSeemsGivenHoursHappenedComfortableElectionClintonMailServerBipartisanshipBenghazi Author:Claire McCaskill
“I think if somebody comes up and simply says, your jobs? I'm going to bring them back. You're not comfortable with the browning of America? I'm going to build a wall. ISIS, I'm going to defeat them. Those are very - it's a simple, but it was a compelling message for a lot of people.” PeopleIfsThinkingJobsAmericaSimpleWallComfortableMessagesDefeatCome UpCompellingIsis Author:Bruce Springsteen
“Part of what makes me most optimistic is if you look at the attitudes of young people. Across the board, young people are much more comfortable with respecting differences. They are much more comfortable with diversity.” PeopleIfsLooksYoungDifferencesAttitudeComfortableDiversityOptimisticBoards Author:Barack Obama
“[Carrie Fisher] could talk about issues that very few people could. She could make her bipolar disorder both real and entertaining. Carrie deserves a lot of credit for giving voice to traumas that few people feel comfortable talking about.” PeopleGivingFeelsRealVoiceTalkingIssuesComfortableDeserveTraumaCreditCarrieDisorderEntertainingBipolarBipolar DisorderGiving Voice Author:Tony Taccone
“People are consuming the news that is comfortable for them, not necessarily the news that is real or that they need to know.” PeopleKnowsNeedsRealComfortableNewsConsuming Author:Susan Rice
“There tends to be this comfortable assumption that nuclear weapons won't be used, but I don't think that's warranted, and I think we should seize the opportunity of this time of stability and cooperation and move towards global elimination of nuclear weapons as indeed people like Henry Kissinger, and William Perry, former Secretary of Defense under Clinton, and Sam Nunn, former Senator, and George Schultz, former Undersecretary of State for Ronald Reagan. All of them recently called for achievement of a nuclear weapon-free world.” PeopleThinkingWorldShouldStatesMovingUsedOpportunityAchievementComfortableWeaponsClintonDefenseNuclearFormerAssumptionCooperationStabilityNuclear WeaponsSecretarySenatorsEliminationFree WorldSeize The OpportunityKissingerHenry Kissinger Author:John Burroughs
“Rather take that moral sense and apply it to the particulars of a job that is going to test those ethical and moral precepts differently than if you're a professor, or a business person, or a dad. And if I were not comfortable with the judicious use of our military to protect the American people, than I shouldn't have run for president. And having said that, I do think that the wisdom of a [Martin Luther] King or a [Mahatma] Gandhi can inform my decisions.” PeopleIfsThinkingPersonsSaidUseRunningJobsPresidentDecisionMoralMilitaryKingsDadProtectComfortableTestsEthicalProfessorsLutherBusiness Person Author:Barack Obama
“I don't want to directly confront great powers, which we cannot defeat on their terms. They have more money, more clout, more airtime. We cannot be effective without a mass movement, and the American people today are too comfortable to adapt to a mass movement.” PeopleWantTodayTermMovementComfortableMassDefeatMore MoneyGreat PowerClout Author:Edward Snowden
“I feel lucky in that the same way I've surrounded myself with people I'm creatively comfortable with, I've surrounded myself with people who are accepting of the way that I look.” PeopleWayFeelsLooksAcceptingLuckyComfortable Author:Lena Dunham
“When I'm doing interiors - especially the ones where you really have full creative freedom - it's about creating an environment for people to feel so comfortable and at ease. I want them to become inspired to live and feel better.” PeopleWantFeelsCreativeEnvironmentComfortableCreatingInspiredEaseFeel BetterInteriorsCreative Freedom Author:Lenny Kravitz
“I've been really fortunate where I've made stuff that connects to people on a positive level, and that makes me feel really good, but I can't feel comfortable in dictating what they're supposed to feel out of it, nor am I a professional in something where I can really help people any farther than creating the things that I make to help myself.” PeopleFeelsMadeI CanHelpingStuffLevelsComfortableCreatingFortunateDictating Author:Frank Iero
“I don't believe that it's inconsistent to be suspicious of people and also be totally comfortable with deploying the technology, because you know its fractal potential. It's a vote for politics. It's a vote for the will to politics. There will be people, a one percent of people, that can use this stuff effectively, develop it, implement it. That's why it's necessary. That's why civilization exists, so those few people can exercise incredible techniques.” PeopleKnowsBelieveUseStuffTechnologyExerciseCivilizationComfortablePercentVoteDon't BelieveIncrediblesTechniqueSuspiciousInconsistentFractalsDeploying Author:Cody Wilson
“I think when people get comfortable is when they fall off.” PeopleThinkingFallComfortable Author:G-Eazy
“The most important thing is to have the conversation, and let people who do make mistakes feel comfortable enough to continue the conversation.” PeopleFeelsImportantEnoughMistakeConversationComfortableImportant ThingsMaking Mistakes Author:Zach Anner
“Popular culture does a lot to shape attitudes. You can't compare different communities to each other, but in my lifetime the gay and lesbian community has become much more mainstream in society. I would venture to say it's in part because people began to feel more comfortable when they saw that group on TV.” PeopleFeelsDoeDifferentCultureCommunityAttitudeSawsGroupsTvsGayShapesComfortableLifetimeCompareMainstreamVenturePopular Culture Author:Jay Ruderman
“I try to be more goofy when I'm on set now that I'm more comfortable. In real life, I'm so goofy and super weird. I'm never mean but people don't see the weird side of me.” PeopleTryingMeanRealSidesComfortableReal LifeGoofy Author:Gigi Hadid
“I don't have any conscious memory of wanting to be an actor, but early on, there was something in my makeup that I felt comfortable with. Then when I was around five or six, I started going to the movies and gradually it dawned on me that I was like one of those people on the screen. And that was it. There was never any question or doubt about what I was going to do for a living.” PeopleActorsFeltMemoriesDoubtFiveSixComfortableConsciousScreensMakeup Author:Martin Sheen
“We often do to people what people are very comfortable with doing to animals without a second thought.” PeopleAnimalComfortableSecond Thoughts Author:Bryan Fuller
“There was one element of my childhood that was really a positive asset for me. By moving a lot, I learned to assimilate into whatever new surroundings I had and to become very comfortable with people quickly. I think that was one of the strongest contributing factors to my becoming an actor, because I constantly had to readjust, even reinvent. But at the same time, it also became very easy for me not to become attached to people, places, or things. I learned to enjoy people and places for the time I had, for the moment, to be in the moment, and move on.” PeopleThinkingMomentsMovingActorsEasyEnjoyChildhoodBecomingElementsComfortableFactorsStrongestAssetsSurroundingsContributing Author:Demi Moore
“Would I feel comfortable with Hillary Clinton taking care of my money down there? That I pay the taxes, corporate taxes down there? I wouldn't feel comfortable at all. They've just continuously spent money and people are up to here with it.” PeopleFeelsCarePayTaxesComfortableClintonCorporate Author:Doug Ford, Jr.
“There are two reasons [ business people are not publicly anti-Donald Trump ], one is well-intentioned, which is the classic kind of American notion. We want to be inclusive, we want to have our shareholders, our employees, our customers, whether they are Democrat, Republican, Green or Libertarian, to feel comfortable with how we're doing business. And so that tends to be apolitical. People say, "No, no, I just simply shouldn't get involved in politics."” PeopleWantFeelsWellsKindTwoReasonTrumpInvolvedRepublicanComfortableGreenDemocratNotionCustomersLibertarianClassicEmployeeGet InvolvedShareholdersApolitical Author:Reid Hoffman
“The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.” PeopleMeanSportsRichComfortableBreadWorking ItSheepBowlsSpectatorsSuper Bowl Author:Jack Kevorkian
“The thing I get the most [in public] is, 'Hey, Eugene.' You know what I mean? There's no catch phrase like: 'What a week I'm having.' People will actually just say, 'Hey, Eugene' or 'Hi, Eugene.' It's a great thing; they feel that comfortable calling me by my first name. It's not being forward. It depends how you say it. I think they can't help themselves. They think they know me. I find it gratifying.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsFirstsMeanHelpingNamesWeekDependsCallingComfortableGreat ThingsHeyPhrasesKnow Me Author:Samuel L. Jackson
“My father was a guy most comfortable in the company of bricklayers and carpenters and electricians. And I have a lot of that in me also. I love those people.” PeopleGuyFatherCompanyComfortableCarpenterElectricianBricklayers Author:Donald Trump
“Of course in this age of colorblindness, a time when we have supposedly moved "beyond race," we as a nation would feel very uncomfortable if only black people were sent to jail for drug offenses. We seem comfortable with 90 percent of the people arrested and convicted of drug offenses in some states being African American, but if the figure was 100 percent, the veil of colorblindness would be lost.” PeopleIfsFeelsStatesSeemsWould BeAgeCoursesLostNationsBlackRaceFiguresDrugComfortablePercentMovedAfrican AmericanUncomfortableJailBlack PeopleOffenseVeilsArrested Author:Michelle Alexander
“People are more comfortable with the familiar. It takes selling a big dream that comes with excellent income possibility to get someone to leave his or her comfort zone.” PeopleDreamBigsPossibilityComfortComfortableIncomeFamiliarSellingExcellentZoneComfort Zone Author:Philip Kotler
“Just be comfortable. Sometimes, when open up for a bigger artist at a conventional concert, you can feel unwelcome. But when you're playing a festival, people come to see music in general - so don't be fearful. The people are there to enjoy and discover new music so approach the show with confidence and optimism.” PeopleFeelsSometimesShowsArtistEnjoyComfortableApproachOptimismBiggerConcertsFearfulConventionalFestivalsNew MusicUnwelcome Author:Vince Staples
“I'm one of those perverse people who likes being alone. I always took myself to be a community of one. That's what I am comfortable with.” PeopleCommunityComfortableLikes Author:Pico Iyer
“People experience all kinds of prejudice because of all different parts of themselves. And that doesn't make one part more important than the other. We live in a society that does not openly accept every kind of human being. And so the result is when you are yourself and someone who's marginalized, it becomes a revolutionary act - just being comfortable in your own body and being comfortable speaking, sharing your ideas. It's really amazing and also, like, kind of sad.” PeopleHumansKindDoeImportantIdeasDifferentBodyHuman BeingsResultsAcceptingComfortablePrejudiceAll KindsRevolutionaryJust BeingMarginalizedReally Amazing Author:Amandla Stenberg
“As far as my single selections, over the years it's been a very essential part of my survival tactic, but I have no problem being able to jump on records with whoever people think is the rawest rapper in the game or number one or King or whatever they wanna name themselves, to be honest with you. It doesn't affect me, 'cause that's what I come from; I'm comfortable in that zone. But I don't wanna make hood music, I don't wanna make street music, I want to make world music, global music, international music.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantYearsProblemAbleGamesNamesCausesNumbersRecordsStreetsHonestKingsEssentialsComfortableSurvivalInternationalBeing HonestZoneRapperSelectionNo ProblemTacticsHoodWorld Music Author:Pitbull
“If you just want a comfortable life, the awards, and pats on the back then you play Christian Hip Hop safe. Because playing it safe will give you consistency, but if you're really in this to see peoples lives transform then you're gonna have to do some risk assessment - it is costly to rally try to impact people.” PeopleIfsWantGivingTryingPlayChristianRiskSafeComfortableImpactHip HopHipsHopsAwardsConsistencyAssessmentPlaying It SafeComfortable Life Author:LeCrae
“There are many qualities of a great leader. Passion is one, empathy is another, listening is another, decisiveness is another. I think a great leader makes people feel comfortable, so that they feel that they're allowed to be stupid, they're not afraid to give their opinions.” PeopleThinkingGivingFeelsPassionQualityLeaderOpinionStupidListeningComfortableEmpathyNot AfraidGreat LeaderDecisiveness Author:Sherry Lansing
“There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.” PeopleWritingProblemLiteratureSidesGrowingComfortableConcernedFinanceJournalismMultitudesCompetentEditorials Author:Russell Baker
“I think a woman's body is so much more sensual than a man's. I'm not saying strip off all your clothes, but there are certain photos I like people taking of me, where I'm comfortable. As long as it's tasteful, why not?” PeopleThinkingMenLongBodyCertainComfortableClothesSensualWhy NotWomen's Bodies Author:Lindsay Lohan
“People say I am the king of painful shoes. I don't want to create painful shoes, but it is not my job to create something comfortable. I try to make high heels as comfortable as they can be, but my priority is design, beauty and sexiness. I'm not against them, but comfort is not my focus.” PeopleWantTryingJobsFocusDesignKingsComfortComfortableShoesPainfulPrioritiesHeelsHigh HeelsSexiness Author:Christian Louboutin