“Actually, social drug-taking went kind of low-key for a couple of years. Probably because of AIDS, people got very conscious of their health. But it seems to be making a comeback. Just the other night I was at a party where people kept disappearing into the bathroom every few minutes. I'm glad I did all that in my 20s and that I'm done with it. And that I wrote about it in Postcards from the Edge.” PeopleYearsKindDoneSeemsNightSocialPartyMinutesKeysCoupleDrugLowsConsciousEdgesDisappearAidsGladBathroomComebackPostcardsLow KeyDrug Taking Author:Carrie Fisher
“We [with Andrew Ridgeley] didn't expect people to take it seriously. But naturally they did, and they thought we were a couple of wankers.” PeopleCoupleAndrew Author:George Michael
“I have been taken for a ride a couple of times. I've been hurt by people who I've had a 90 percent possibility of being hurt by.” PeopleHas BeensHurtTakenPossibilityCouplePercentBeing HurtBeen HurtI've Been Hurt Author:George Michael
“Carl Armstrong was one of those people in the anti-war years who had been so convinced of the righteousness of their cause that he and some friends decided they would blow up a building at the University of Wisconsin, in which they said research was being done to help the war against the Vietnamese. What they blew up at three or four in the morning was a young scientist, who was married and had a couple of kids, who wasn't working on war stuff at all. And he was killed.” PeopleYearsSaidWarDoneHelpingKidsYoungThreeCausesStuffMorningFourBuildingCoupleMarriedResearchDecidedScientistUniversityBlowConvincedRighteousnessAnti WarThey SaidBeing DoneArmstrongWisconsinVietnamese Author:Nat Hentoff
“A different [Ronald] Reagan-era authority: EO 12333, an executive order for foreign-intelligence collection, as opposed to the ones we now use domestically. So this one isn't even authorized by law. It's just an old-ass piece of paper with Reagan's signature on it, which has been updated a couple times since then. So what happened was that all of a sudden these massive, behemoth companies realized their data centers - sending hundreds of millions of people's communications back and forth every day - were completely unprotected, electronically naked.” PeopleHas BeensDifferentUseLawOrderCompanyMillionsPiecesHappenedCommunicationCoupleAuthorityPaperNakedAssDataErasCollectionsExecutivesMassiveBack And ForthSignaturesExecutive OrdersBehemothData Centers Author:Edward Snowden
“The most important people for me, at least in the last couple of years since I came out, are my supersecret trans friends and confidantes. I think I need to come up with a code name for this circle.” PeopleThinkingNeedsYearsImportantLastsNamesCoupleCome UpCirclesCodeTrans Author:Chelsea Manning
“I'm afraid of a couple things. I'm afraid of getting caught up in other people's expectations, because I feel like that's an ongoing battle.” PeopleFeelsCoupleBattleExpectationsCaughtCaught UpOngoingCouple Things Author:Jim Gaffigan
“I think it's fine that there are five million people who are watching [politics on TV], and obviously I'm happy they are since they're on the air, and there are a couple hundred thousand people reading The Weekly Standard online, and that's great too, but most Americans aren't engaged that intensely, and are much less partisan.” PeopleThinkingReadingMillionsFiveAirTvsFineCoupleThousandStandardsHundredEngagedOnlinePartisans Author:William Kristol
“I was once really close to sitting down and having a conversation with a shadowy young woman who is reputed have become a millionaire by investing in Beanie Babies. She was someone that a couple people claimed to know, she seemed to exist, but she remained shadowy.” PeopleKnowsYoungBabyCoupleConversationSittingDown AndInvestingYoung WomenMillionaireSitting Down Author:William Gibson
“I worked the AV counter at the Roland Heights public library in the '80s. My best story from the library was the time a couple asked for a recommendation, and I recommended Raising Arizona and they absolutely hated it. They came back hungry for blood. I was on my lunch break and my boss came out and said, "Hey kid, you need to come talk to these people. They totally hate Arizona." And he said, "Arizona's a dog; nobody gets that movie."” PeopleNeedsSaidStoriesKidsHateBreakBloodDogCoupleLibraryHungryHeyHatedHeightBossLunch80sArizonaRecommendationsPublic LibraryLunch Break Author:John Darnielle
“Kids need love and kids are not getting enough love in America because kids haven't been going the right way. We need to protect families by allowing same-sex couples to get married and also we need to protect religious freedoms because, in this country we allow people to practice religion or not practice religion.” PeopleWayNeedsCountryEnoughKidsAmericaSexReligiousPracticeHavensCoupleProtectMarriedAllowingRight WayReligious FreedomNeed LoveEnough Love Author:Brendon Ayanbadejo
“I know people's problems: the problems of those who work hard, who must slave away. The couples who have two incomes but who can nevertheless barely cover their rent. The people who get stuck in traffic on their way to work. The people who have to wait in vain for a train to come just as they are supposed to be picking up their children from daycare. I can say with a clear conscience to those people: I understand your problems. And I will do all I can to decrease them.” PeopleKnowsWayChildrenI CanTwoHardProblemWaitingClearHard WorkCoupleConscienceTrainSlaveStuckIncomeSupposed To BeVainNeverthelessTrafficDecreaseClear ConscienceDaycareStuck In Traffic Author:Martin Schulz
“My impression is that staying together as a couple does not correspond to the challenges themselves, but whether the very idea of breaking up is an option on the table. If it is, then some people take it. If it's not, then they will keep working at it. You must know people who were terribly suited who make it work. And there are couples who seem perfectly suited that break up. It's a mystery to everyone.” PeopleIfsKnowsDoeIdeasSeemsTogetherChallengesBreakMysteryCoupleTablesImpressionStayingStaying Together Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“P.J. O'Rourke says that conservatives really hate government and every couple of years we put them in charge and then we're reminded how much we really hate government. We're not always necessarily great at the task of running government. We're the anti-government party. It actually makes some sense we're not so good at that. But you got to have basic competence in how you run the government, even in how you reduce its effectiveness in people's lives.” PeopleYearsGovernmentRunningHatePartyCoupleTasksCompetenceEffectivenessAnti Government Author:Matt Schlapp
“I was fortunately able to avoid getting into any trouble with police. There was - I remember I was 12, and I did something really (laughter) - a couple of friends, Cinco de Mayo - we were off school, and we saw some people looking like they were having a party. And we had a little bit too much time on our hands, and so we figured, as kids, a great idea would be to throw some things over the fence and hit all these people with stuff, like eggs and everything.” PeopleLittlesIdeasHandsWould BeKidsAbleSchoolRememberStuffBitsPartySawsToo MuchTroubleCoupleLittle BitLaughterPoliceEggsFenceGreat IdeaCinco De Mayo Author:Mahershala Ali
“That was actually Lloyd Phillips who was a Kiwi film producer in L.A. And it was about Gorgeous George, not Haystacks Calhoun. I was in a couple of Lloyd's films and got approached to write the story. People don't realize it, but Gorgeous George had this flamboyant, camp stage persona that had a tremendous influence on other celebrities, like Elton John, Liberace, Elvis Presley, and Mohammed Ali, who all wanted to establish their own outlandish stage personas. The project died because Gorgeous George's wife refused to give up the rights.” PeopleGivingWritingStoriesWantedFilmRealizingWifeRightsInfluenceStageCoupleGiving UpProjectsDiedProducersCampsGorgeousPersonaFlamboyantOutlandishStory PeopleKiwiMohammed Ali Author:John Ratzenberger
“You don't need 70 people in a White House press conference to tell people what happened there. You need a camera and maybe a couple reporters, and that's it.” PeopleNeedsHouseWhiteHappenedCoupleCamerasPressesWhite HouseReportersConferencesPress Conferences Author:Rush Limbaugh
“No one could argue with a straight face that the couples getting married today are much happier just because their wedding celebrations cost three times as much as those in 1980. Bigger mansions and costlier parties are wasteful in the same sense that larger antlers on all bull elk are wasteful. The good news is that simple changes in the tax system can eliminate much of this waste without having to deny people the right to decide for themselves how best to spend their money.” PeopleTodayFacesThreeSimplePartyCoupleCostTaxesWasteMarriedNewsBiggerDenyArguingCelebrationGood NewsThree TimesBullsGetting MarriedMansionsTax SystemStraight FaceElkAntlers Author:Robert H. Frank
“I don't consciously watch and file lived moments for my work. I have a couple of writer friends who do that and it creeps me out, to be honest. I know people think I must do that too, but I don't. But I do have a long memory.” PeopleThinkingKnowsLongMomentsMemoriesWatchesHonestCoupleBeing HonestFilesCreeps Author:Tim Winton
“For many years, questions about the meaning of life were dismissed as senseless. We were told that life, not being a word or sentence or anything language-like, can't intelligibly be said to have meaning. An encouraging development in the last couple of decades is a return by philosophers to addressing - as nearly all people do at some time or another - the question of life's meaning.” PeopleYearsSaidLastsLanguageDevelopmentReturnCouplePhilosopherSentencesDecadesMeaning Of Life Author:David E. Cooper
“In general, in the matters that relate to theology or behavior, people to one another, Paul was obviously biblically correct. But when he said that women should always cover their hair or that women should not teach men, women should not have leadership positions in the church, women should not speak in the church, I don't' think that those writings of Paul can be extracted by themselves to stand alone. Also, Paul said that women should be subservient to their husbands but if you read a couple of verses down it says husbands should treat their wives as equals.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenShouldWritingSaidMatterSpeakChurchTeachWifePositionHairCoupleHusbandBehaviorTreatsTheologyRelateVersesMen WomenStand AloneSubservient Author:Jimmy Carter
“It's important to teach students about the reality of the system, that it is in fact the case that they are being targeted unfairly, that the rules have been set up in a way that authorize unfair treatment of them, and how difficult it is to challenge these laws in the courts. We need to teach them how our politics have changed in recent years, how there has been, in fact, a backlash. But we need to couple that information with stories of how people in the past have challenged these kinds of injustices, and the role that youth have played historically in those struggles.” PeopleWayNeedsYearsKindHas BeensImportantFactsStoriesRealityPastLawDifficultChallengesRolesTeachCasesStruggleInformationChangedYouthStudentsCoupleCourtInjusticeTreatmentUnfairBacklashPeople From The PastUnfair Treatment Author:Michelle Alexander
“If you want to make changes in the world, you're going to have to be there day after day doing the boring, straightforward work of getting a couple of people interested and building a slightly bigger organization and carrying out the next move and suffering frustration and finally getting somewhere. That's how the world changes.” PeopleIfsWorldWantMovingSufferingNextBuildingCoupleOrganizationBiggerBoringFrustrationMaking ChangesStraightforwardNext Move Author:Noam Chomsky
“Half of the [USA] population, roughly, thinks the world was created a couple thousand years ago. Two thirds of the country is expecting the second coming of Christ. They've also had to turn to nativists. The gun culture in the United States, which is out of control, is party fueled by people who think 'we've got to have our guns to protect ourselves.'” PeopleThinkingWorldYearsTwoCountryStatesTurnsCultureChristUnitedPartyHalfUnited StatesCoupleThousandProtectGunYears AgoThirdsPopulationUsaExpectingThousand YearsGun Culture Author:Noam Chomsky
“I don't think anyone would disagree with the conclusion that Saddam [Hussein] was a terrible dictator. He had gassed his own people and his neighbors. He had killed thousands of people, and he had started a couple of wars and destroyed his country.” PeopleThinkingWarCountryCoupleTerribleNeighborConclusionDestroyedDisagreeDictatorSaddamHussein Author:Colin Powell
“The European Union, ok, right, it has a bureaucracy, right. It`s sometimes difficult to deal with but so what? You hire a couple of people like me to work the European Union, and it can be done. It`s pretty good.” PeopleSometimesDoneDifficultDealsCoupleUnionsLike MeBureaucracyEuropean Union Author:Daniel Fried
“As you might imagine, if you're a teenager having a couple of people with microphones and guns always following you around, that could grate on them. But you know, they've handled it with grace and I give Michelle [Obama] most of the credit for how well they've done, but I also just think they are graceful, good young, young women.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsGivingWellsDoneMightYoungGraceImagineCoupleGunFollowingCreditTeenagerYoung WomenMicrophonesGrate Author:Barack Obama
“I had made a couple of records in Europe. One as a leader, and one as a sideman before that. It was what it was. I started to work with Maria Schneider around that period and some other people, I started to get called to sub at the Vanguard in my mid-20s.” PeopleMadeLeaderRecordsCouplePeriodsEuropeVanguard Author:Jon Gordon
“My motivational music is any music that helps me escape. There are certain records that take you to euphoria, when you're partying and havin' a good time, dancin' with a couple people.” PeopleHelpingCertainPartyRecordsCoupleMusic IsHelp MeGood TimesEuphoria Author:Pitbull
“A lot of people put out albums with sort of crappy songs and a couple of singles because they know no one's going to listen to it anyway. We very much wanted it to be something that you do listen to from beginning to end and had a narrative that was important.” PeopleKnowsImportantEndsWantedSongCoupleAlbumsNarrativeSingles Author:Jamie Hewlett
“As much as we - in a revisionist way - tell ourselves that we've always been a righteous country with a couple of swerves off the path, we need to look back and see that we've always also been a racist country and have had a tendency towards banal aggressiveness. The thing that's alarming is not so much that a few people in America at the top are initiating these crazy policies, but that the middle is willing to go there too. There's a strange movement of the middle to this position of banal aggressiveness.” PeopleWayNeedsLooksCountryAmericaPathCrazyMiddlePolicyMovementPositionStrangeWillingCoupleTendenciesRacistRighteousAggressivenessSwerve Author:George Saunders
“Medicine is often conservative and slow to incorporate something that wasn't there before and that we're afraid people are going to laugh at us for. But, the beauty of music is - well, a couple things. There are no side effects that are harmful. Music doesn't do that. It doesn't have any negative effects whatsoever. So I do think it's going to come, but I think it's a new idea for people.” PeopleThinkingLaughingCoupleMusic IsNegativeConservative Author:Neal Barnard
“When I would work freelance in production in Chicago, there were a lot of times when I was working for cheap, bad people, and I was working for slave wages anyway, so there were some times when I might have filled out a couple of blank taxi receipts and kept some petty cash. But like I say, I was very selective. It was only people that I thought were assholes. The people that I liked I went far and above saving them money, much less taking it. But that's it. I'm pretty moral. I don't even like stealing jokes.” PeopleMoralCoupleJokesSlaveStealingBad PeopleTaxi Author:Andy Richter
“I was on television a couple of years ago and the reporter asked me, "How does it feel being on mainstream media? It's not often poets get on mainstream media." I said, "Well I think you're the dominant media, the dominant culture, but you're not the mainstream media. The mainstream media is still the high culture of intellectuals: writers, readers, editors, librarians, professors, artists, art critics, poets, novelists, and people who think. They are the mainstream culture, even though you may be the dominant culture."” PeopleThinkingArtArtistCulturePoetCoupleCriticsLibrarian Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti
“There is a beautiful expression in Nicaragua: "struggle is the highest form of song". I love that. We are in the struggle. It's like a river. Once you step into it you become the river. It's not, you go out and click on a couple of charities that you believe in, march in the Women's March, and you're done. Struggle becomes your life, transforming a paradigm that is based on domination into a paradigm of co-operation. Fighting for the liberation of women, of people of color, of indigenous people, of lgbtq communities. Fighting to protect immigrants and assuring the safety of refugees.” PeopleBelieveDoneBeautifulSongFightingCommunityStruggleCoupleProtectSafetyCharityLiberationMarchRefugeeDominationIndigenousParadigmIndigenous People Author:Eve Ensler
“As I look back at the last 15 years, one of the things that I'm most proud of is creating the cover. When I first did it, the first couple of years, people really criticized it and didn't think it would work at all. Now, you see it everywhere.” PeopleThinkingProudCouple Author:Glenda Bailey
“I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.” PeopleKnowsDoneCan DoSleepCareersCoupleRespectRespect People Author:Val Kilmer
“There are always fights in a band. People get together for these reunion shows after 20 years, and they play a couple shows and break up again.” PeopleTogetherFightingBreakCoupleReunion Author:Exene Cervenka
“Net neutrality is rooted in a number of leftist assumptions, and that is that all corporation is evil, that all profit is evil, and that all people in corporations are not people, because corporations aren't people. A gigantic rip-off. Then you couple their own economic circumstances into this and the way they've been raised, thinking if they want it, they should have it, then you get this so-called informed media and opinion about all this stuff.” PeopleThinkingEvilOpinionEconomicCoupleCircumstancesAssumption Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Maybe Donald Trump doesn't want the American people to know that he's paid nothing in federal taxes, because the only years that anybody's ever seen were a couple of years when he had to turn them over to state authorities when he was trying to get a casino license, and they showed he didn't pay any federal income tax.” PeopleTryingCoupleTaxesAuthorityIncome Tax Author:Hillary Clinton
“If you ask any economist, they'll tell you all the mortgage interest deduction does is raise the price of the house. So a couple is out looking at the house, they say, "Oh, we love this house, but we couldn't make the monthly payment." And the realtor says, "Yeah, but you're going to get a tax break." So people pay more than they would otherwise. You take a loss even though you're making a gain.” PeopleHouseInterestLossBreakCoupleTaxesEconomistMortgage Author:T.R. Reid
“I wouldn't say I'm the "nice" judge, but I was certainly reminded a couple of times that this is for a million dollars. There's one thing to just do a good dance, but I had to ask myself, "Is that the million-dollar dance?" There are certain dances that people prefer, and I preferred the intelligent and smart choreography.” PeopleNiceJudgingCoupleSmartIntelligentChoreography Author:Derek Hough
“From the very beginning of my life, people have always enjoyed it when I was around for a couple of days at a time. So, I think, most people in touring bands are best in small doses. That's why we turn up in a town, play and then we leave before anyone can get sick of us.” PeopleThinkingCoupleSick Author:Chris Martin
“Some of the very best private equity people, in my experience, are people who start out as stock pickers - people who really understood value, how to take a company's financials apart and couple that with good judgment about businesses, macro trends, and where things are going.” PeopleValuesCoupleJudgmentEquityGood Judgment Author:David Bonderman
“Kosovo is an agricultural economy particularly. It also has a couple of good power stations that exported power, and the big cooperative which they had there in the mining field is no longer functioning. So there is no immediate employment available for people in the industrial sector. All that needs to be going. But you will remember that it is part of Yugoslavia, and much of its trade and its dependence was on Serbia and Montenegro.” PeopleRememberEconomyCoupleTradeMining Author:James Wolfensohn
“I like working with people on their first movies. I think that you never get that level of effort again. And I think that most people only have a couple of amazing stories from their lives, so you're getting the best of them.” PeopleThinkingEffortCouple Author:Judd Apatow
“I'm fortunate to have some really great people around me, my fiancee being one, my parents being another. Over the last couple of years, I feel like I've figured out the importance of continuing to learn and the development of the brain and how the brain hooks up with the body.” PeopleParentBrainCoupleImportanceReally GreatHookGreat PeopleHook Up Author:Randall Cobb
“It's a problem that Congress has really taken on in the last couple of years. We tripled the money that was being - to be spent on opioids. Legislation sort of followed that. Then we doubled that tripling. I think, at some point, there's a limit to how many times we can multiply that in a short period of time, but this is a real problem. In Missouri, more people die from drug overdoses than car accidents.” PeopleThinkingRealProblemTakenCarCoupleDrugCar Accident Author:Roy Blunt
“We're in an era where they've sanitized home life in movies to such a degree that there is a certain home life that might be true if you have two perfect parents, and a nanny, and a couple babysitters, and support, and lots of money, and there's no strain at home, or whatever. But for most people, there's strain, you know? There's a lot of pressure, things can't be perfect, parents can't be perfect all the time. There's a divorce, there's money issues, whatever. People work, so you don't always have these vast reserves of patience every time your kid goes crazy.” PeopleHomeKidsParentPerfectSupportCrazyCoupleDivorceBeing TrueBabysitterSure Thing Author:Dave Eggers
“What people don't understand about making a film is sometimes your experience on the film shapes who you are. You're gone to another country for five months, maybe more, there's training leading up to it... It's a whole life experience that people don't see because they just see the final product wrapped up in a couple hours. You don't see everything that happens around it. I think it's hard to say one movie or one thing; I think they all shape who you are.” PeopleThinkingCountrySometimesFilmHoursCoupleTrainingWho You AreWhole LifeLife Experience Author:Scott Eastwood