“You [can] become part of someone else's narrative. Every once in a while I would get people asking me questions like, "If your husband is a Muslim, then why haven't you converted to Islam?" Interestingly enough, almost every person who asked me that was a Sunni, and it was their not-so-subtle way of implying that my Shiite husband was a bad Muslim for letting his infidel wife run around unconverted.” PeopleIfsWayPersonsEnoughRunningWifeHavensHusbandAskingIslamNarrativeSubtleYour HusbandInfidelImplying Author:Annia Ciezadlo
“The market won't let us treat all data equally because there's a potential to make huge gobs of money not doing that. In the United States of America, people will pay to be first unless we do something to stop them. We don't have defenses built in because we haven't been investing in criticism that would help us mount a defense. I” PeopleFirstsStatesHelpingAmericaUnitedPayUnited StatesHavensHugeBuiltCriticismTreatsInvestingDefenseDataUnited States Of AmericaGob Author:Astra Taylor
“I feel like there's just so much of everything that I don't know what people have heard and what they haven't heard. I think with the fact that there's the Internet and that people can share home-made recordings, I think a lot of the songs do get to be heard, even if it's not the best quality, or there's clinking glasses or it's just piano and voice, people can at least hear the song.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsFeelsMadeFactsHomeSongVoiceQualityHeardShareHavensInternetGlassesPiano Author:Regina Spektor
“My johns adored and worshipped me, therefore they empowered me. When I was 18, 19, and 20, I had a poor self-image and needed attention. It's hard for people who haven't been prostitutes to imagine, but I think it's often true. There can be a very symbiotic relationship happening.” PeopleThinkingSelfHardPoorAttentionImagineHavensNeededHappeningsEmpoweredPoor Self Image Author:Annie Sprinkle
“Once you do a character in Hollywood and people haven't seen you before, they put you in a box and they think that's all that you can do and it's hard to get people to take a risk on you.” PeopleThinkingHardCharacterCan DoRiskHavensHollywoodBoxes Author:Aubrey Plaza
“We're not talking about you scored more points than me and I know that you won and I lost, those are clear results. This is about people's opinions and their subjective takes on things, people that sometimes haven't seen all of the movies they're voting on.” PeopleKnowsSometimesLostResultsTalkingOpinionClearHavensVotingSubjectiveNot Talking Author:Don Cheadle
“All I know is there's thousands of people in the Academy and a lot of them, the majority of them, haven't won Oscars.A lot of people are crying, I guess.” PeopleKnowsHavensCryMajorityOscarsAcademy Author:Clint Eastwood
“We just haven't found Bigfoot because the world is big. And the woods are deep. The more TV shows that we can get where people go out looking for Bigfoot, the better our chances are. So let's get more of those shows going.” PeopleWorldShowsBigsFoundChanceHavensTvsWoodsTv ShowsChances AreBigfoot Author:Rob Huebel
“I've never written about a situation involving real people that I haven't directly taken part in. I've never made things up about other people. None of my stories were written with ill-intent towards the other people in them, even though I doubt people will believe that about "Adrien Brody."” PeopleBelieveMadeRealStoriesSituationTakenDoubtWrittenHavensIllInvolving Author:Marie Calloway
“In terms of e-books, though, I haven't quite gotten to the bottom of it yet, but for some reason everybody I know seems to want to engage me on that topic, or convert me. I think there are a lot of people who just want to hear me embrace e-books or finally say, 'OK, I bought an iPad and it's awesome!" There are a lot of people who would get a kick out of it, that's for sure.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantBookReasonSeemsTermHavensEmbraceBottomKicksTopicsIpads Author:Adrian Tomine
“In New Zealand we had this colossal squid, which was discovered just off the shores of New Zealand, between New Zealand and Antarctica back in 2003. It's the biggest squid ever found, and I know that there's things living down in the depths of the ocean that do explain the Kraken - you know, these giant things that people saw back in the day, that could take ships down - and so I know that there's stuff out there, and I like the idea that we haven't solved everything yet.” PeopleKnowsIdeasFoundStuffSawsHavensOceanDown AndDepthShipsGiantsShoreNew ZealandColossalBack In The DayAntarcticaSquidsKraken Author:Rhys Darby
“The Pink Panther is legendary, but a lot of people my age haven't ever seen the original. So, I think it's great to bring it back for my generation, and to expose them to where that theme song which still sounds so modern and that legendary image of a pink cat came from. It's great to be a part of that, because it's history.” PeopleThinkingStillsAgeSongSoundGenerationsModernHavensCatOriginalsThemeMy GenerationLegendaryPanthersPink Panther Author:Beyonce Knowles
“I haven't seen any poet in this country behave nearly as rudely as Newt Gingrich or Bill O'Reilly. I'm not asking these people to approve of everyone's manners. I don't feel obliged to defend the manners of every poet who submits a poem to my web site. That's not my job. My job is to provide them with an opportunity to speak from the heart. If there's not much in the heart and if the mouth is running wild, that's not my problem.” PeopleIfsFeelsHeartCountryProblemRunningJobsOpportunitySpeakHavensPoetMouthsAskingBillsMannersBehaveSubmitSiteObligedNewtsBill O ReillyRunning WildSpeak From The Heart Author:Sam Hamill
“Don't force things to happen. You can work towards things and keep yourself open to things, people, and opportunities, but you can't and shouldn't try to control everything. Also, if you haven't noticed so far, I think sleep is really important.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingImportantHappensOpportunityForceSleepHavens Author:Lisa Loeb
“[Making Ordinary People] was a wonderful experience. Tremendous. I haven't seen it since. It belongs to the public now; it no longer really belongs to me.” PeopleWonderfulHavensOrdinaryOrdinary PeopleWonderful Experience Author:Robert Redford
“I can't see a problem with imposing fines on drivers who violate traffic safety laws. The speed limit is the speed limit. A red light means stop. These things haven't changed since people got their driver's licenses.” PeopleMeanI CanProblemLightLawHavensChangedFineLimitsRedSafetySpeedDriversTrafficLicenseImposingRed LightsSpeed LimitsLicenses Author:Robert James Thomson
“And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction. I find it a golden idol, honestly, where we have been hypocritical to ask people to resolve this issue in a way that we haven't encouraged other people with other struggles to resolve. I'm looking at offering biblical holiness, not an unrealistic expectation for people that will leave them disappointed.” PeopleWayHas BeensUseAsksStruggleIssuesHavensExpectationsEncouragementAttractionHonestlyGoldenHolinessResolveDisappointedIdolsOfferingBiblicalPornographyHypocriticalUnrealistic ExpectationsOthers Struggles Author:Alan Chambers
“Others may dispute this, we have tried to keep that sense of experimentation and putting new people up alive. And we haven't become a show, where we're like, "We know the 20 comics who are good and we're just going to keep on recycling them."” PeopleKnowsMayShowsAliveHavensDisputesExperimentationRecycling Author:Scott Aukerman
“It's something we do every week. Every week kind of has bigger name headliners. It's all just our taste. There's a lot of people like Ian Edwards or Dan Mintz who a lot of people haven't heard of yet, but we know are really great. When we started the show five years ago it wasn't because Patton Oswalt needs another place to play. It was because we had a lot of new friends like BJ Novak or Morgan Murphy, who didn't have any club to play.” PeopleKnowsNeedsYearsKindPlayShowsNamesFiveHeardWeekHavensTasteYears AgoBiggerClubsFive YearsReally GreatNew FriendsMurphy Author:B. J. Porter
“I think that people find that's a fresh look at a relationship between two best friends, between two soul mates, that people haven't really seen in this particular way. So that's definitely something that people are noticing.” PeopleThinkingWayLooksTwoSoulHavensParticularMatesNoticingSoul MateTwo SoulsTwo Best Friends Author:Steve Zissis
“Godzilla also represents the fear of nuclear annihilation, which was something that was big in my mind at the time. It was something that the people of this forthcoming generation haven't had to live with, but people around my age grew up with the idea that we could all be blown up at any minute. That's also what got me into hardcore music.” PeopleMindIdeasBigsAgeGenerationsMinutesHavensGrewGrew UpNuclearAnnihilationHardcoreForthcomingGodzilla Author:Brad Warner
“What's the worst, is when people clearly haven't researched you. One time an interviewer asked me if I do a lot of plays. I'm like, yeah. Have you Googled me? There's this thing called Google, and you can ask Google that question. Then you could come to me with informed questions that didn't make me feel like I am brand new to the world.” PeopleIfsWorldFeelsPlayAsksWorstHavensYeahBrandsOne TimeGoogleBrand NewInterviewers Author:Laura Benanti
“We never get any gratitude for what we do. We just are constantly ripped. We are constantly complained about. We are constantly attacked. And people are fed up with it. People are fed up being told they haven't done enough, that they don't do enough, that they don't care enough, that they're mean-spirited, that they're extremists, when this is the most loving and charitable, the most giving country the world has ever seen.” PeopleWorldGivingMeanCountryDoneEnoughCareHavensGratitudeDon't CareFedsExtremistRippedCharitableSpiritedFed UpMean Spirited Author:Rush Limbaugh
“For most people on the planet, consciousness can be equated with thought. They haven't experienced what it means to be conscious without thought, or they have only for very brief instants.” PeopleMeanConsciousnessHavensPlanetsConsciousInstant Author:Eckhart Tolle
“Audiences are hungry for something different. With binge-watching, they're hungry for interesting content they haven't seen before, and they want to be entertained. A lot of shows are grim, murky and dark. We wanted to spin away from the obvious, the tropes, the cliches and what people are doing right now, and do something different.” PeopleWantDifferentShowsWantedDarkInterestingAudienceHavensRight NowObviousHungryClicheGrimDoing RightBingeTropesBinge Watching Author:Miles Millar
“Usually when I put my focus on the pacing, the plot, the specific characterizations, - it's ironic - but then I actually increase my chances of writing something that moves people because I haven't become too self-conscious of the goal.” PeopleWritingSelfMovingGoalChanceFocusHavensConsciousIncreasePlotIronicSelf ConsciousCharacterizationPacing Author:Christopher Rice
“I find it very difficult to do anything on my own now because people recognize me. This has never happened to me before because I haven't really done television before. But I suppose if you're in people's rooms all the time, I don't know - I was thinking the other night with people like DiCaprio and, you know, those big stars and Cate Blanchett, and you just think how did they exist? It's so difficult. And I think now it's very intrusive because of these cellphones, you know, with cameras.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsDoneBigsNightStarsDifficultMy OwnRoomsHappenedHavensTelevisionCamerasCellphone Author:Maggie Smith
“Once you get to your forties or fifties in this society, very few people haven't had at least one body blow - financial, bankruptcy, divorce, relationship disaster, addiction, trouble with a child, trouble with a parent. Most people take some blow.” PeopleChildrenBodyParentTroubleHavensAddictionFinancialBlowDivorceDisasterFortyBankruptcyThis Society Author:Marianne Williamson
“Portraying this character [Diwata] has really given me an opportunity to get in touch with that side of myself, which I haven't been for a few years. And I do know what it's like to be different from people around you and not fit into the prototypical mold of what America sort of thinks a girl "should be."” PeopleThinkingKnowsShouldYearsDifferentCharacterAmericaGirlOpportunityGivenSidesHavensFitMoldPortraying Author:Sarah Steele
“Occasionally I encounter people getting into their cars who will say, "Oh, you haven't been walking lately" - like I'm a symbol of the ancient art of walking!” PeopleArtCarHavensWalkingAncientSymbolsEncountersAncient Art Author:Stephen Vincent Benet
“I feel like I can be infinitely inspired because New York is huge. There's always a new street I can go to, or a billion new people who I haven't met that I could write about. New York is very humbling.” PeopleFeelsWritingI CanStreetsHavensNew YorkHugeMetsInspiredBillionsHumbling Author:Frankie Cosmos
“I have a nice little idea from some people I met there who are now in their seventies, and I want to tell their story about the revolution through the eyes of musicians, in fact. The '59 Revolution. And what has happened to them since. It's very much a Cuban story. They haven't fared too well.” PeopleWantWellsLittlesIdeasFactsStoriesEyeNiceHappenedHavensRevolutionMetsMusicianSeventiesCubanThrough The Eyes Author:John Gimlette
“If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.” PeopleIfsHeartDoneWantedAsksBreakHavensMy HeartBreaking My Heart Author:Angelina Jolie
“I don't feel anything about it. I really like "Staring at the Sun" - I like that song a lot. I haven't heard a lot of their records, but I know that they're cool. I know that the people who listen to them are really awesome and I like those people, so I know that I would like the band, I just don't own their records.” PeopleKnowsFeelsSongSunRecordsHeardHavensBandStaringReally Awesome Author:Justin Vernon
“I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.” PeopleYearsMy OwnHavensReviews Author:Kevin Bacon
“In my experience I haven't met too many uptight black people. I'm sure they're out there. Like I'm some big authority and I've lived in the inner city and ghetto.” PeopleBigsBlackCitiesHavensMetsAuthorityBlack PeopleGhettoInner CityUptight Author:Paul Reubens
“People read so much into what I do. It's fascinating to me because some of it's probably there, but I haven't thought of it.” PeopleHavensFascinating Author:Paul Reubens
“One day I went to the manager and I asked him whether his model was working and he said, "Well, haven't you seen how many customers we have in this store?" And yes indeed I had. I mean it was definitely attracting a lot of customers, even attracting tourist buses that would land up at this store and people would go through the store and marvel at all the options, even sometimes take photographs of the various aisles.” PeopleWellsMeanSaidSometimesLandHavensOne DayModelsPhotographVariousCustomersStoresManagersBusTouristsAisle Author:Sheena Iyengar
“A lot of times I go to the gym and I see people and they don't know how to work out. There's no routine or anything like that. I saw a guy who I haven't seen in five years and the guy looks the same as he did five years ago.” PeopleKnowsYearsLooksGuyKnow HowFiveSawsHavensYears AgoWork OutFive YearsGymRoutine Author:Andre Reed
“When greedy people are given gold, they are bitter that they haven't gotten jewels; when they are made barons they are resentful that they haven't been made lords. Though powerful and rich, their attitude is that of beggars. For those who know how to be content, simple fare is more delicious than rich delicacies, a cloth coat is warmer than fox fur, and an ordinary citizen does not defer to a king or a lord.” PeopleKnowsDoeMadeGivenSimplePowerfulAttitudeLordKnow HowRichHavensKingsCitizensOrdinaryGoldBitterTaoismFoxesCoatsGreedyDeliciousJewelsBeggarFurDelicacyResentfulOrdinary CitizensGreedy People Author:Zicheng Hong
“If anything, we haven't changed much since we [with Venuse Williams] were kids. We really are the same people.” PeopleIfsKidsHavensChanged Author:Serena Williams
“The Afghan - obviously the parties will decide which course of action. The most important there, get a government that is seen as legitimate to the people and has the credibility to be a partner in the effort to secure Afghanistan so it's not a haven for al Qaeda or other type of terrorists or international terrorist organizations.” PeopleImportantGovernmentActionCoursesPartyEffortHavensTypeOrganizationInternationalPartnersTerroristSecureAlsAfghanistanCredibilityAl QaedaAfghan Author:Rahm Emanuel
“We've been told by the people on the other side who don't like the campus sexual assault movement that these are all "he-said, she-said" cases. Quite rightly, they say campus procedures are often very flawed, the investigation methods are not that good, and we aren't sure what we can trust. [Opponents say that] it seems like a lot to call somebody a rapist if they haven't gone to a criminal trial.” PeopleIfsSaidSeemsSidesCasesGoneHavensMovementMethodCriminalsTrialsOpponentsInvestigationAssaultFlawedProceduresCampusSexual AssaultHe Said She Said Author:Michele Landis Dauber
“As the popular trust in science fades - and many sociologists say that's happening today - people will develop a distrust of purely "scientific" psychology. Researchers in the universities haven't picked up on this; they're more interested in genetics and computer models of thinking than ever. But, in general, there is a huge distrust of the scientific establishment now.” PeopleThinkingTodayPsychologyHavensHugeComputerModelsHappeningsUniversityEstablishmentFadesDistrustGeneticsResearchersSociologists Author:James Hillman
“Normally when people say they haven't decided, they're being polite but they're definitely not voting for you. I think it's different this time. People are thinking hard about the issues.” PeopleThinkingDifferentHardIssuesHavensDecidedVotingPoliteBeing PoliteNot VotingThinking Hard Author:David Cameron
“Now women in comedy is a trendy topic, and people are hungering for women's voices in a way that they haven't before.” PeopleWayVoiceComedyHavensTopicsTrendy Author:Rachel Bloom
“There isn't anything you can expose Trump on that people don't already know and haven't already accepted.” PeopleKnowsHavensTrumpAccepted Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I am uneasy about the practice of other people telling you how to write. This is especially true for beginners who haven't yet developed their style and their writer's persona and are easily pushed off the course.” PeopleWritingCoursesPracticeStyleHavensPersonaUneasyBeginners Author:Yuriy Tarnawsky
“You can't teach charisma. You can draw it out of people if it's there and they haven't quite figured out how to utilize it yet, but it's just one of those things, that's why they call it the "X factor".” PeopleIfsTeachHavensDrawsFactorsJust OneCharisma Author:Stephanie McMahon
“I feel that people who haven't read my books and haven't heard me lecture - who don't in fact know what my work is about - have been very hard on me. There is an expression in Alcoholics Anonymous called "contempt prior to investigation." I feel many people practice contempt prior to investigation.” PeopleKnowsFeelsHas BeensBookHardFactsPracticeHeardHavensExpressionContemptInvestigationLecturesAlcoholicsAlcoholics Anonymous Author:Marianne Williamson