“People are watching TV, they're watching some clips on their iPhone. I mean, some folks are sitting there on the iPhone, watching the Colbert Report, and meanwhile there's a huge plasma TV right in front of them that they could be watching it on.” PeopleMeanFrontsTvsHugeSittingFolksReportsIphoneClipWatching TvPlasma Author:Biz Stone
“People don't work in factories, [they aren't] big muscular guys. The working class is flabby because they're sitting in front of a computer all day, but it's still their labor being extracted.” PeopleStillsBigsGuyClassFrontsComputerSittingLaborFactoriesWorking Class Author:Eric Drooker
“I always make the point that teachers are people too, and that they don't just want to be in front of kids all day and have children be their only feedback loop.” PeopleWantChildrenKidsTeacherFrontsFeedbackLoops Author:Dana Goldstein
“Because jurors have an extraordinary amount of power over the situation and of the people and the story in front of them, they tend to pay pretty intense attention to what's happening.” PeopleStoriesPayAttentionSituationFrontsAmountHappeningsExtraordinaryIntenseJurors Author:Zephyr Teachout
“I was in Britain that year [1963] and some music publishing people in Denmark Street in London suggested me to the BBC. So I found myself in front of a British television show, which was a nice surprise.” PeopleYearsShowsFoundNiceStreetsFrontsTelevisionSurpriseBritishLondonBritainPublishingTelevision ShowsDenmarkBritish Television Author:Gordon Lightfoot
“My personal beliefs were shaped more by experience and by watching the news when I was young: images of angelic-looking college students in Mississippi crying like the world was ending because black people were being allowed on their campus; the slow mounting horror of Vietnam on the evening news every night; sitting with my parents in front of the TV and being appalled at the way the Chicago police were treating the protesters during the '68 Democratic convention. Being eyed with suspicion because of my age and the way I wore my hair.” PeopleWorldWayAgeYoungNightBeliefParentBlackFrontsCryStudentsCollegeTvsHairHorrorNewsSittingPoliceDemocraticEveningChicagoBlack PeopleVietnamConventionsEvery NightSuspicionMississippiCampusAngelicCollege StudentsPersonal Beliefs Author:James Vance
“Many nightclubs from this era were very loud and very dark. Plus some of the best ones were incredibly crowded. To begin with, I could seldom get back far enough to get people into frame from head to foot and when I could, people would be constantly walking in front of me all the time. Then I bought a 24-mm lens and only had to be four or five feet away.” PeopleEnoughWould BeDarkFiveFourFeetFrontsWalkingErasLoudPlusGet BackLensesCrowdedNightclubs Author:Derek Ridgers
“I've seen it personally that people have a natural sensibility to Arabic script. I don't know it if it's because of the shape, I don't know what it is in this script that makes it so universal. But even if you don't understand it, you still have this feeling; you can feel the piece of art in front of you.” PeopleIfsKnowsFeelsArtStillsFeelingsNaturalPiecesFrontsShapesUniversalScriptsSensibility Author:eL Seed
“As quiet as I am I find it amazing I can stand in front of hundreds of people now and make a speech because i've had to do it so much. I've so much support from the people around me that I can achieve something like that, crazy introvert that I am, I never would have thought that would happen.” PeopleI CanHappensSupportCrazyAchieveFrontsQuietSpeechIntrovert Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson
“Up until I think eighth grade - when I found out in front of a roomful of people - I believed that England and Great Britain were two entirely different places. Like I didn't know that England was a part of Great Britain. I thought they were completely separate in every way.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayTwoDifferentFoundFrontsEnglandBritainGradesDifferent PlaceGreat BritainEighth Grade Author:Paul F. Tompkins
“I definitely isolate, but I also always have people in front of me, and I have to be OK with that. I'm in a business where, on the set, you're around two hundred people every day, and if you're high on the call sheet, you sort of set the tone for the set. And you want people to feel appreciated, and you want to ask them how their kids are. You want to talk to people and invest in them and let them know that they're appreciated and heard. But then I do like to just kind of withdraw.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantFeelsKindTwoKidsAsksHeardFrontsHundredToneSheetsAppreciated Author:Patricia Arquette
“It's always the thing when you're shooting out and about with real people and you could get a couple of bogeys like sticking their face in front of the camera, like 'Hey!'” PeopleRealFacesFrontsCoupleCamerasHeyShooting Author:Joel Kinnaman
“The problem is that people basically dangle debt in front of us. And the cost for the poor of course is much higher than for the wealthy.” PeopleProblemCoursesPoorFrontsHigherCostDebtWealthy Author:Dan Ariely
“Most of her participation in the United Nations, which [??] history, as I say, I don't take too seriously, because I know how that UN operation works, and it is essentially a facade in which the work is done back in Washington and in the capitals involved, and the people up front are just going through the motions.” PeopleKnowsDoneNationsUnitedKnow HowFrontsInvolvedOperationsParticipationUnited NationsFacade Author:William A. Rusher
“There have been times in my adolescence where I gave up. I was like, 'I'm just never going to be pretty. I'm never going to be like one of those people on the front of magazines.' It always seemed really strange to me that the projection of how people are in advertisements looked nothing like the people who were actually buying them. You know what I mean? I never understood that mismatch, and now I really start to see that the people you see in the media are a lot more like people actually are.” PeopleKnowsMeanHas BeensMediaFrontsStrangeUnderstoodMagazinesBuyingAdolescenceProjectionGave UpAdvertisementsMismatch Author:Ronda Rousey
“There's two different disks recorded at two different shows. And they're two very different shows. The San Francisco disk was in front of 450 people and was a real professional show where people did their best stuff. So to some people that's going to be their favorite disk.” PeopleTwoDifferentRealShowsStuffFrontsSan FranciscoDisk Author:B. J. Porter
“I knew I wanted to be a performer really early on, like around 8 years old. I did tons of acting and loved being in front of people.” PeopleYearsWantedActingFrontsPerformers Author:Kate Brown
“If you have something to get off of your chest, there is a proper way to do it. Everybody has a bad day, and, for some people, you're under a microscope and you have to deal with the consequences of having a bad day in front of people. But everyone has them.” PeopleIfsWayDealsFrontsConsequenceChestsBad DayMicroscopesHaving A Bad Day Author:Donald Faison
“Yes, anyone can log onto your "anonymous" band's MySpace page and hear the music. So, in theory you have gotten your music in front of 5 billion people. The other thing is that something has to cause them to go to those bands MySpace page, and it's that reliance on taste makers or radio, that is still very much a part of how music is sold and marketed.” PeopleStillsCausesFrontsTheoryTasteBandMusic IsPagesRadioBillionsMakersReliance Author:Chris Cain
“How can [actors] learn their lines and be honest in front of 30 people and all the lights? It makes me cry sometimes. I can't understand how they can be joking with me 30 seconds before, and 40 seconds later they're giving me all this incredible feeling.” PeopleGivingI CanSometimesFeelingsLightActorsLinesHonestFrontsCryIncrediblesBeing HonestSeconds Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“We saw groups of people gathering in front of Lula's house in Sao Paulo this morning. You had people shouting at one another, and some fistfights even broke out. Some of his supporters are claiming that this is equivalent of a coup attempt, an attempt to remove Rousseff from power and prevent Lula from running again. And other people are saying that this is simply a display of rule of law in Brazil, that no one in Brazil can be above the law at this time.” PeopleRunningLawHouseMorningSawsGroupsFrontsBrokeRemoveDisplaySupporterGatheringRule Of LawShoutingBrazilCoupsAbove The LawSao Paulo Author:Simon Romero
“I never want to listen to the songs in front of people close to me. There's an emotional honesty in that place where it's not earnest but it's vulnerable.” PeopleWantSongFrontsHonestyEmotionalVulnerableEarnestEmotional Honesty Author:Yannis Philippakis
“Not that I feel like I have a lack of confidence, it's just good to stand up in front of people who don't really know what to expect. Am I going to say something? Am I going to sing? And often when I do say anything it gets a laugh, because everyone's already used to laughing. So I can seem like I'm actually a funny person.” PeopleKnowsFeelsPersonsI CanSeemsUsedLaughingFrontsSay AnythingLack Of Confidence Author:Eleanor Friedberger
“I went to the little church in the country after ten years in the city. And part of my dream was to sit on people's front porches with glasses of iced tea, and all that happened. I was able to send birthday cards to everyone in the parish and able to know everyone who was there on Sunday by name. And that was what I'd been looking for.” PeopleKnowsYearsLittlesCountryDreamAbleNamesChurchCitiesHappenedFrontsTenGlassesCardsTeaSundayPorchParishBirthday CardFront PorchesIced Tea Author:Barbara Brown Taylor
“Even as a fan, as someone who's into his performances, the Stooges and his own stuff, Iggy [Pop] is one of the people who kept underlining something that a lot of my older musician friends with punk roots say: you get into this space in your life where you feel like a weirdo, you're marginalised, you don't fit in... and then you can get up on stage in front of people who probably hate you.” PeopleFeelsHateStuffSpaceFansStageFrontsFitMusicianRootsPerformancesPopsGet UpPunkHate YouWeirdoStooges Author:Babatunde Adebimpe
“One second you're having the time of your life in front of all these people, and then you come backstage to the exact opposite - there's only lukewarm carrots back there.” PeopleFrontsOppositesCarrotsLukewarmTime Of Your Life Author:Babatunde Adebimpe
“It's hard to go out in front of people with an acoustic guitar and improvise for 30 or 40 minutes, but I had a compulsion to do it. I just had to in a way that I can't really explain.” PeopleWayI CanHardMinutesFrontsGuitarCompulsionAcousticsAcoustic Guitar Author:Bill Orcutt
“People relate to you a lot more when you're honest and authentic - and that's hard to do in front of millions of people every week.” PeopleHardMillionsWeekHonestFrontsRelate Author:Rayvon Owen
“I can introduce new parts because when you are on stage in front of a very happy audience or people who love what you are doing, you are able to do extraordinary things that you yourself didn't think you could do before.” PeopleThinkingI CanAbleAudienceStageFrontsExtraordinaryIntroducingVery HappyDoing YouExtraordinary Things Author:Rokia Traore
“I don't mind getting up in front of people and playing - singing by myself, as raw as it comes, with nobody else helping me out, which shows that you have a little bit of talent.” PeopleMindLittlesHelpingShowsBitsTalentFrontsLittle BitSinging Author:Bronson Arroyo
“If you had a front row seat at the Renaissance, you would have seen Machiavelli come by plotting, and you would have seen murders in the streets, you would have seen violence, you have seen people burning books and it would have looked like the world was a horrible place, but that's where all these incredible stuff we're still living with comes out of.” PeopleIfsWorldStillsBookStuffViolenceStreetsFrontsMurderIncrediblesHorribleBurningSeatsRenaissance Author:Juan Enriquez
“I got stopped in front of the bras in Victoria's Secret; I get interrogated in airport bathrooms. I went to South Africa in January to see my family, and even there people would stop me and ask, "Sasha, who's A?" Even my grandma.” PeopleAsksSecretFrontsMy FamilySouthSouth AfricaBathroomAirportsGrandmaJanuaryVictoriaBrasMy GrandmaVictoria's Secret Author:Sasha Pieterse
“I know from an early age that I'm very comfortable in front of people. When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.” PeopleKnowsGivingBookAgeYoungGirlFrontsComfortableReports Author:Patti Smith
“I could have a job as a teacher because I like talking in front of people.” PeopleJobsTalkingTeacherFronts Author:Patti Smith
“I liked being on stage, I just didn't like the theatrical aspect of being in front of people.” PeopleStageFrontsAspectTheatrical Author:Patti Smith
“I have six acres in front of my own house, which I very rarely work on. Most of the work occurs on farmers' fields around me. And I like the discipline of working on other people's land.” PeopleHouseMy OwnLandFrontsFieldsDisciplineSixFarmersAcres Author:Andy Goldsworthy
“Well, she's so alive, Julia Child. And Margaret is so - is so designed. She's so intent upon making her point. That's the most important thing, is that she win the argument, and there is nothing that stands in the way of that train, you know. But Julia's just alive in front of you. That's part of why people loved her. They lived it with her. They breathed it with her. And the mistakes were all part of it.” PeopleKnowsWayWellsChildrenImportantWinningMistakeAliveFrontsArgumentImportant ThingsTrainJulia Author:Meryl Streep
“I used to stand in front of the mirror in my bedroom. I shared a bedroom - like a lot of people in my era, in my neighborhood - with my two brothers and an uncle. And I'd stand there in front of the mirror over the dresser and I would practice: meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views of Cicero, Bacon and Baba.” PeopleMenBelieveTwoYoungUsedGrowsViewsAcceptingPracticeGrowing UpFrontsBrotherDutyMirrorsLibraryErasYoung ManNeighborhoodBedroomUnclesMeekBabaDressersTwo Brothers Author:Joe Biden
“We all look in the mirror and see us a little blonder or a little thinner or a little younger, whatever that ideal might be and most of the people that I'm photographing are selling something, you know whether they're on the front of an album cover or a magazine or they're a corporate person ready to switch companies or a doctor selling a skincare line... so I want to help them achieve that.” PeopleKnowsWantLooksLittlesPersonsHelpingMightLinesCompanyAchieveFrontsReadyIdealsDoctorsMirrorsAlbumsSellingMagazinesCorporateAlbum CoversSelling Something Author:Carol Friedman
“Instead of taking care to acquaint ourselves with others, we only think of making ourselves known to them. It would be better to listen to other people in order to become enlightened rather than to speak so as to shine in front of them.” PeopleThinkingWould BeCareOrderSpeakKnownFrontsListeningShiningEnlightened Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable
“I don't look at myself as a hero I look at myself as just another person who's on the path. I have got a light in front of me shining and I have got other people in front of me with their light shinning for me, I have got people behind me with their light shinning for me.” PeopleLooksPersonsLightBehindsPathFrontsHeroShining Author:John Assaraf
“I don't kid myself in thinking that I'm on the front lines. I know the people who are on the front lines. I mean there are people in some freakin' significant places making on-the-ground social front line change. I've marched. I've put feet on the ground for what I believe and what I'm against with no compromise. And there are people who are risking a whole hell of a lot more than me to make change, that's for damn sure.” PeopleThinkingKnowsBelieveMeanWholeKidsI BelieveSocialLinesHellFeetFrontsSignificantCompromiseDamnFeet On The GroundNo Compromise Author:Ben Harper
“We were in front of a live audience and I would be acting with the man who was playing my lover, and we used those words, and the audience would titter and laugh, and make me uncomfortable doing the scenes. ... I wanted to sort of stop and yell at them, "What's so funny? What's the matter with you people? Grow up!" It made me very self-conscious at times.” PeopleMenMadeSelfMatterWould BeWantedUsedGrowsActingAudienceLaughingGrowing UpFrontsHe ManLoversSceneConsciousUncomfortableSelf ConsciousMy Lover Author:Billy Crystal
“The way that Russian Orthodox services work generally, and certainly the way that this worked, is that it goes on for hours and hours, and people wander in and wander out, and people talk the whole way through. One of the American women said to the other, "This is so beautiful. I can actually imagine maybe even becoming Orthodox." She went on and on, and finally a Russian seated just in front of her turned and said, "You are not member of church because it is beautiful; you are member of church because it is the single truth of God!"” PeopleWaySaidI CanWholeBeautifulHoursChurchImagineFrontsGoes OnBecomingMembersWanderOrthodoxAmerican WomanBeautiful YouTruth Of God Author:Andrew Solomon
“It's always weird the thought of taking your clothes off in front of 20 people and then to have it projected in front of many more.” PeopleFrontsClothes Author:Lena Headey
“When we were doing the "Angel Dust" thing we got information from the National Institute of Drug Abuse because we knew that if we went out and said something about angel dust people were going to ask questions about it and we wanted to be sure we had all the information to deal with it when those questions came up. So it's all a question of being as prepared as possible out front, so that if you are going to deal with information it'll be correct. A lot of people won't check it out but some people will.” PeopleIfsSaidWantedAsksDealsFrontsInformationDrugAngelAbusePreparedChecksDustInstituteDrug Abuse Author:Gil Scott-Heron
“For decades, I thought that scientific truth, solid economic case studies, and common sense were enough to bring about change on the environmental front. After all, the data is so compelling! I thought that if people just understood the severity of today's environmental threats and knew about available solutions, those solutions would happen. Not so.” PeopleIfsEnoughHappensTodayCommonCasesStudyEconomicFrontsSolutionsUnderstoodThreatEnvironmentalAvailableDecadesCommon SenseDataCompellingSeverityScientific TruthCase Studies Author:Annie Leonard
“As life goes on I'm learning to trust myself more, so I am more comfortable - you have to be, doing things in front of people, especially when there's lots of pressure. I have to make decisions.” PeopleDecisionFrontsGoes OnComfortablePressureLife Goes OnTrust MyselfLearning To Trust Author:Tyler Blackburn
“As a singer-songwriter who gets up on stage and sings about those things that make me vulnerable is an amazing experience. You get up on stage and effectively take your clothes off in front of thousands of people.” PeopleStageFrontsClothesSingersGet UpVulnerableSongwritersSinger SongwritersAmazing Experiences Author:James Blunt
“Singing in front of people. It's like having your heart beat outside of you.” PeopleHeartFrontsBeatsSingingHeart Beat Author:Kandyse McClure