“I'm not sure that it's right to view this as excluding a particular group. When the institution of marriage developed historically, people didn't get around and say, 'Let's have this institution, but let's keep out homosexuals.' The institution developed to serve purposes that, by their nature, didn't include homosexual couples.” PeoplePurposeViewsGroupsParticularCoupleGayInstitutionsNot SureHomosexualGay Marriage Author:John Roberts
“We would do improvisation together. And that in a way, had almost a "student-film side" where we'd be sitting there with Robert Downey and Jon Favreau and we're playing around, we're jamming around and we read those pages and in next couple of days that's what we do, so it was a good experience. Kind of frightening at first because you didn't quite know how it was going to work out, but they had some very talented people there so it worked out well.” PeopleKnowsWayFirstsWellsKindTogetherFilmNextSidesKnow HowStudentsCouplePagesSittingWork OutFrighteningGoing To WorkImprovisationPlaying AroundGood ExperiencesRobert Downey Author:Jeff Bridges
“If people envisage me in the Senate they might think of me as someone who would emulate Paul Wellstone, fighting for the issues he fought for. He was a good friend of mine. We'll be trying to do a couple of things. One is fighting for national health care. Another is fighting to raise the minimum wage to a living wage, and changing our trade policies.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingMightCareFightingIssuesPolicyMinesCoupleRaisesTradeHealth CareSenateGood FriendMinimumThink Of MeMinimum WageEmulateLiving Wage Author:Bernie Sanders
“I think people probably lie about not reading their own reviews. I don't think that's true - I've been to a lot of music festivals and hung out backstage, especially in the past couple of years, and I see all these bands reading about themselves in newspapers. So I don't think that's true.” PeopleThinkingYearsPastLyingReadingCoupleBandNewspapersReviewsHungFestivalsMusic Festival Author:Lily Allen
“I feel like I'm still learning a lot. I think there's a tendency for people who are just doing their first couple of films that I see now where they seem to be really resentful of the technical limitations that come along with filmmaking.” PeopleThinkingFeelsFirstsStillsSeemsFilmActorsCoupleTendenciesLimitationMovieFilmmakingResentful Author:Anna Kendrick
“It's impossible for one or two people to go out and shoot a narrative film; you need to have a cast, the person shooting sound, whatever. But you can legitimately have a couple people and go and do a documentary.” PeopleNeedsPersonsTwoFilmSoundImpossibleCoupleCastsShootingNarrativeDocumentaries Author:Jeremy Coon
“People love destroying mankind, for some strange reason. You make a movie about mankind's destruction, you're going to fill seats. People just love the idea. For a couple thousand years, we've been dreaming up how we're all going to disappear and fade away from this planet.” PeopleYearsIdeasReasonDreamMankindStrangePlanetsCoupleThousandDestructionDisappearSeatsDestroyingFadesThousand YearsFade Away Author:Michelle Rodriguez
“Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you "sell" only to people of a certain age, you get cut off from the main body of experience. The power of couple dancing and courtship, it's elegant, and you wouldn't realize America was once a nation of dancers and singers today. People of all races could dance and sing.” PeopleBodyAgeTodayAmericaCertainNationsRealizingRaceCuttingGenerationsMovementYouthCoupleSellsDancingJazzSingersCelebrateDancerElegantCourtshipOlder Generation Author:Wynton Marsalis
“Jon Krakauer had documented it very accurately and very well but this kid made a real impression on people, and likewise they on him. To talk to them was very moving in many cases because they talk about him like they saw him yesterday. In most cases they knew this kid for a couple of weeks in their whole life and he just lasted with them.” PeopleWellsMadeRealWholeKidsMovingCasesSawsWeekCoupleWhole LifeYesterdayImpressionMoving InVery Moving Author:Sean Penn
“But I'm not a small-literary-novel kind of guy, and once I'd developed the world in the first couple of hundred pages, I felt that there was potential here to go on and write an engaging story set in that world. So that's what I did. This probably ruins things both for the people who want small literary novels and for those who want action-packed epics, but anyway, it's what I wrote.” PeopleWorldWantWritingFirstsKindStoriesActionGuyFeltNovelGoes OnCouplePagesHundredRuinsEpicEngaging Author:Neal Stephenson
“Any filmmaker, big directors, and I'm not dropping any names - I actually have couple names I want to say, but I will not - we have a ratio. Each thing you repeat, my ratio is one to four.Actually some people are ratio one to 34. I know couple directors, big directors, they are just shooting over and over.” PeopleKnowsWantBigsNamesFourCoupleDirectorsShootingFilmmakerRepeatsDroppingRatios Author:Tommy Wiseau
“I challenged myself to write/direct a romantic comedy. People trash talk the rom com, but it's one of the oldest cinematic genres, with stellar origins like Twentieth Century and Trouble in Paradise. I think as audiences lost their innocence, the genre lost its suspense. To create suspense, you need obstacles, so I gave my couple an obstacle that very few people ever overcome: their own behavior and their past.” PeopleThinkingNeedsWritingPastLostAudienceComedyTroubleCenturyCoupleBehaviorDirectOvercomingObstaclesInnocenceSuspenseGenreParadiseTrashTwentieth CenturyCinematicStellarTrash Talk Author:Leslye Headland
“My partner, Jeff Ullrich, and I always thought Earwolf was going to be big. There were a couple of studies before we launched saying podcasts were going to really grow. But I remember so many conversations at the beginning where people would say, 'How are you going to make money with this?'” PeopleBigsRememberGrowsStudyCoupleConversationPartnersMaking Money Author:Scott Aukerman
“I studied psychology for a couple of years as a personal hobby, so you start learning about people and listening to your intuition, like when you you're feeling that people are not being entirely straight with you.” PeopleYearsFeelingsPsychologyListeningCoupleIntuitionHobbies Author:Afrojack
“[Having bigger budget] allowed me to be a full-time filmmaker for a couple months and not have to have a day job and be balancing a bunch of other stuff. It allowed me to bring in all these people from different parts of the country. It allows me to have an actual food budget, where we could eat healthy for the month we were shooting. It makes all the difference in the world.” PeopleWorldDifferentCountryJobsStuffDifferencesMonthsCoupleHealthyBiggerBunchShootingBudgetsFilmmakerDay Jobs Author:Joe Swanberg
“If two people have a couple of kids, somebody does have to take care of the kids. Somebody does have to cook dinner; somebody does have to do garbage duty. We need to take some time and give some thought, without being angry, to just thinking about what these new structures are going to look like.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsGivingLooksDoeTwoCareKidsDutyCoupleAngryStructureDinnerTake CareCooksGarbage Author:Debora Spar
“You're married to a woman who has no objection to another woman joining the couple. Then she brings in her boyfriend. Suddenly you realize - my God! - you can love more than one person. In fact, you can love several people at the same time.” PeoplePersonsFactsRealizingCoupleMarriedJoiningObjectionsAnother Woman Author:Volkmar Sigusch
“Few real people appear in my two novels, actually. "Ari" appears on the edge of this book a couple of times - but on the edge, she's never in it, even if she's a determining force from the outside. Everybody in the first book was basically made up, if never from scratch.” PeopleIfsFirstsMadeTwoBookRealForceNovelCoupleEdgesScratches Author:Ben Lerner
“That's our job as artists is to be honest about what we're feeling. And what we're feeling is not always going to be perfect. Sometimes it's going to be controversial. Sometimes it's going to piss a couple of people off. Sometimes it's going to motivate people. Sometimes it's going to inspire.” PeopleSometimesFeelingsJobsArtistPerfectHonestInspireCoupleBeing HonestControversial Author:Pharrell Williams
“I think sometimes when people get older they start to limit themselves and think that if they wanted to start singing or they wanted to start playing guitar or if they wanted to, I don't know...become an archeologist - whatever it is, they think they just can't do it anymore because they've hit a certain age and I just think that's like putting yourself in jail. I realised a couple of years ago that the more that I did and made things and created things that I could love; it helped me to realise that I was actually loving myself and what came out of me.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsYearsMadeSometimesAgeWantedCertainCoupleLimitsSingingYears AgoGuitarJailRealisingRealisedPlaying GuitarLoving Myself Author:Theresa Wayman
“There is no place so benighted and godforsaken that some moron won't go there on vacation. People could be living in an open sewer and swallowing dirt to stop the hunger, and there'd be a couple from Larchmont wearing comfortable shoes there to take pictures of them.” PeopleCoupleComfortableShoesHungerVacationDirtMoronSwallowingSewersComfortable Shoes Book:Island Source: Island
“With chamber music you can get people who work on the music for months, rehearsing it every day for a couple of hours, and if they get it in a different way than you do, which is entirely possible, it's not as a result of anything other than their good musicianship.” PeopleIfsWayDifferentHoursResultsMonthsCoupleDifferent WaysChamberRehearsingMusicianshipChamber Music Author:Nico Muhly
“Lots of really interesting people move to U.S and decide to work here, because of this whole attitude and openness. I'm absolutely convinced that this is just the beginning. In a couple decades we will see an even more dramatic change.” PeopleWholeMovingInterestingAttitudeCoupleConvincedDecadesDramaticOpennessReally InterestingDramatic Change Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen
“Did you know that we are the only people in the United States who have to have their voting rights okayed every couple of years?” PeopleKnowsYearsStatesUnitedUnited StatesRightsCoupleVotingRight To VoteDid You Know Author:Whoopi Goldberg
“The US intervened in the Philippines to uplift and christianize the backward people, killing a couple of hundred thousand of them and destroying the place. The same thing happened in Haiti, the same thing happened with other countries.” PeopleCountryHappenedCoupleThousandHundredKillingThings HappenUpliftingDestroyingOther CountriesHaitiPhilippines Author:Noam Chomsky
“When you have a couple hundred people in one huge space, that's gonna lead to jokes and it's a breeding ground for practical jokes and teasing.” PeopleSpaceHugeCoupleJokesHundredPracticalsBreedingTeasePractical Joke Author:Duffy
“I dream of a world where people from different backgrounds are praying and working for the flourishment of communities different from them, and I find my sustenance not only in these stories in scripture, but in stories of human existence also - the story of the Bosnian Muslim man who took to a Serbian couple with a new baby a liter of milk every day during that horrible struggle in the former Yugoslavia, because he said even if our tribes, our nations, are at war with each other, there is something deeply human about me wishing that your baby survives and is secure.” PeopleIfsMenWorldHumansSaidDifferentWarStoriesDreamNationsWishCommunityExistenceStruggleBabyPrayingCoupleScriptureBackgroundsHorribleSecureFormerMilkTribesHuman ExistenceSustenanceNew BabyYugoslaviaDifferent BackgroundsBosnians Author:Eboo Patel
“Comedy is very interesting because you can very quickly cross into dangerous territory. I mean look at what happened, unfortunately, (in) Paris a couple of weeks ago. They were making comics - which were really satire - but it offended people. I'm not saying the reaction was justified but there's definitely a line when you're doing comedy or satire and how it might affect somebody. That's the thing you have to watch and I think you have to be respectful of it.” PeopleThinkingLooksMeanMightLinesInterestingWatchesComedyHappenedWeekDangerousCoupleCrossesReactionsParisSatireTerritoryJustifiedOffendedVery InterestingRespectfulBe Respectful Author:Corbin Bernsen
“I'm not saying Christopher Pyne and all them are my enemies, they're great blokes, shouted me a few beers a couple of times which I like, it's - we have got to sit down with the people like that. We have got to sit down with people like that and negotiate and work our way through. If we don't do that then we're just going to continue the sins of the past.” PeopleIfsWayPastSinEnemyCoupleBeerBlokesSins Of The Past Author:Yitzhak Rabin
“The Love Dare for Parents really came from an ongoing response from people who went through the couple's book asking us to do the same for children. It's been a long time coming after a couple years doing this. But we're excited that it's now hitting shelves. We learned a lot going through the process of writing it, so we can't wait to see what happens.” PeopleWritingYearsChildrenLongBookHappensWaitingProcessParentCoupleLong TimeAskingResponseDareExcitedHittingShelvesOngoingLove Dare Author:Alex Kendrick
“I don't want to be elected president to sit around and see gridlock just become so dominant that people literally decline in their lives. That's not my motivation. I have a lot of cool things to do other than sitting around, being miserable, listening to people demonize me and being compelled to demonize them. That is a joke. Elect Trump if you want that. If you want somebody who has a heart for people, who can fight for people, and can fix these things, then there are a couple other people, and I believe I'm the best one.” PeopleIfsWantBelieveHeartMotivationFightingI BelievePresidentListeningTrumpCoupleJokesSittingMiserableThings To DoDeclineDominantCompelledSitting AroundCool ThingsGridlock Author:Jeb Bush
“I think there are contractual problems with me doing more than a couple, but I would love to go back. I just have a lot of fondness for that show, and for the people. When you get something off the ground, it's fantastic and you feel really close to that group of people. Wherever Selfie goes, the fact that we birthed it, we'll always be tied together that way.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsFactsShowsProblemTogetherGroupsCoupleFantasticTiedFondness Author:John Cho
“Doesn't matter whether it's a teen girl who's pregnant, hasn't told her parents, or an elderly couple dealing with one of them being diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Those are real people to me. Those are the people I dealt with every single day.” PeopleRealMatterGirlParentCouplePregnantElderlyAlzheimerAlzheimer's Author:Mike Huckabee
“My father had a couple of kids at the beginning of the Depression. There was not much employment. Not much welfare. People barely got by. People were tougher then.” PeopleKidsFatherCoupleEmploymentWelfare Author:Clint Eastwood
“Tom Paine was a great American visionary. His book, Common Sense, sold a couple of hundred thousand copies in a population of four or five million. That means it was a best seller for years. People were thoughtful then. Hope is one thing. But you need to have hope with thought.” PeopleNeedsYearsMeanBookCommonMillionsFiveFourOne ThingCoupleThousandHundredPopulationCommon SenseThoughtfulCopiesTomsVisionariesHaving HopeGreat AmericanSellersBest SellersPaineTom Paine Author:Studs Terkel
“In the Jewish tradition of the Bible it says, "Speak to her softly, so that she will want to engage in sexual activity." In today's world, there's a little bit of a danger in that people don't really talk to each other. You see couples walking in the street, each one of them texting someone else. That worries me.” PeopleWorldWantLittlesTodaySpeakBitsWorryStreetsDangerCoupleWalkingActivityLittle BitTraditionTextingToday's WorldJewish Tradition Author:Ruth Westheimer
“Yeah, I'd say there's probably about a couple of hundred people I admire - but that has nothing to do with what a person does themselves. That's why I never mention these things. You can read a detective novel you really like, but it had no bearing on what you do yourself, you just think, "God, how this guy wove this together!" Or you get into the energy of it. Or you see a poem which makes a great statement about sentiment, but it's not sentimental.” PeopleThinkingPersonsDoeTogetherGuyEnergyNovelCoupleHundredYeahStatementsAdmireSentimentsSentimentalThis GuyDetectives Author:Tom Verlaine
“Anecdote: The extent of Michael Jackson's fame at its height, and his eagerness to exploit it is shown by an incident in 1984 when invited to a White House reception hosted by then President and First Lady Ronald and Nancy Reagan. Jackson had been assured that the only people there, besides the presidential couple, would be a few staff members' children. Aghast to find around 75 adults and no children, Jackson locked himself in an upstairs bathroom, refusing to emerge until assured that all non-essential adults had been replaced by a number of children.” PeopleFirstsChildrenWould BeHousePresidentWhiteNumbersCoupleFameMembersEssentialsAdultsPresidentialHeightWhite HouseLockedStaffReplacedInvitedBathroomAssuredExploitsIncidentsFirst LadyReceptionNancyEagernessAnecdotesUpstairsAghastStaff Members Author:Michael Jackson
“What I've realized is that all of these people are so successful because they love what they do and they work exceptionally hard. No one gets successful in this business by fluke really. There are probably a couple of exceptions but most people just work so hard. They are working every day and they are doing their prep.” PeopleHardSuccessfulCoupleExceptionPrepsFlukes Author:Jeremy Irvine
“I want to point out, that this is not my fault that everyone's afraid of me, because I did not kill a couple people the other day.” PeopleWantCoupleFaults Author:Aisha Tyler
“When you're working on something where there's usually one sex scene in the film, it all gets a little bit of a gray area and people get a bit uncomfortable and awkward. You just get through it. But, it became very clear on this that that can't happen. There can't be any gray areas on this because there are actors and actresses coming in for a day or a couple of days, as well as people who are there regularly.” PeopleWellsLittlesHappensFilmActorsSexBitsClearCoupleSceneLittle BitAreasActressesUncomfortableGrayAwkwardGray AreaActors And Actresses Author:Michael Sheen
“Even if you're a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you're still in the world - although I guess being a poet is a different than having to deal with 40 or 50 people to raise a couple million bucks and all that bullshit.” PeopleIfsWorldWritingStillsDifferentRoomsDealsMillionsPoetCoupleSittingRaisesBullshitBucksYour Room Author:Abel Ferrara
“The last couple of years have been a good learning experience for me and a good journey. My first world title fight I fought Erik Morales and how much experience do you think you can get from that? A lot of people thought he would beat me because of experience. I've faced a lot of experienced fighters.” PeopleThinkingWorldYearsFirstsHas BeensLastsFightingJourneyCoupleBeatsFighterTitlesMoraleLearning Experience Author:Danny Garcia
“And from the first moment that I ever walked on stage in front of a darkened auditorium with a couple of hundred people sitting there, I was never afraid, I was never fearful, I didn't suffer from stage fright, because I felt so safe on that stage. I wasn't Patrick Stewart, I wasn't in the environment that frightened me, I was pretending to be someone else, and I liked the other people I pretended to be. So I felt nothing but security for being on stage. And I think that's what drew me to this strange job of playing make-believe.” PeopleThinkingFirstsBelieveMomentsJobsSufferingFeltEnvironmentStageSecurityFrontsStrangeCoupleSafeHundredSittingFrightenedPretendingFearfulFrightMake BelieveNever FearStage FrightAuditoriumsPlaying Make BelievePretending To Be Someone Else Author:Patrick Stewart
“We [me and Jennifer Salke] talked about the characters and different kinds of families and where are we today. We certainly pitched the gay couple, but we also talked about what it was like to be a single mother with a young daughter, what is it like to be a woman in your 50's who is completely starting over and dating again and having to go online to date again. We talked about the whole spectrum of the characters, but I don't think it ever came up about whether people are ready for it or not.” PeopleThinkingKindDifferentWholeCharacterTodayYoungMotherReadyCoupleGayDaughterDatingStartingOnlineDifferent KindsSpectrumStarting OverJenniferSingle MotherGay CouplesYoung Daughter Author:Ryan T. Murphy
“But in the beginning, when you're looking at this and you're thinking about it, the CDC gets brought up to this place to deal with this virus and it's something that they've never seen. That, in itself, is quite frightening in a story because real-life epidemics are something that happen, all the time. I think there were just a couple of reported cases this last week in Vancouver of some people passing away with H1N1.” PeopleThinkingRealStoriesHappensLastsDealsCasesWeekCoupleReal LifePassingPassingsFrighteningVirusesPassing AwayEpidemicsVancouver Author:Kyra Zagorsky
“It's gone, boxing's gone. What is there in boxing? Who is there to talk about, who is there that people go, "Yeah I want to fight him?", and fans go "I wanna see that fight"? There's Floyd Mayweather, and he is 38, 39, he's maybe got one fight left. What else is there? He'll have a last fight or two and a couple of guys will get a few million dollars, but way less than I'm gonna be getting in future. This sport is getting bigger all the time, and I am making it bigger.” PeopleWayWantTwoLastsGuyFightingLeftSportsMillionsGoneFansCoupleBiggerYeahDollarsBoxingMillion DollarsMayweatherFloyd Mayweather Author:Conor McGregor
“I'm not going to shoot seven days a week. I think it's counterproductive. I think you're going to have people stumbling around after a couple of weeks.” PeopleThinkingWeekCoupleSevenStumblingSeven DaysCounterproductive Author:Roger Corman
“It is really not the wilderness that needs management (it has been doing quite well, after all, for a couple of billion years), but people.” PeopleNeedsYearsWellsHas BeensCoupleManagementBillionsWilderness Author:Roderick Nash