“Of course, Texas is so huge it really is empty places; people can easily drive an hour and a half to work every day, so even if they're actually living in the suburbs, it sure feels as if they're in a remote location.” PeopleIfsFeelsCoursesHoursHalfHugeEmptyTexasLocationSuburbsEmpty PlacesActually Living Author:Gail Collins
“When you start doing comedy, you think to yourself, "I want to be a headliner." And you become a headliner, and you're like, "Oh wait, this isn't what I meant. I meant I want to be a headliner that's famous enough that people come see me specifically." And that's a huge leap, because most of the time most of the audience is there to see comedy in general. They're not there to see you.” PeopleThinkingWantEnoughWaitingAudienceComedyHugeLeap Author:Moshe Kasher
“There is a reason why these people [from Wall Street] are putting huge amounts of money into our political system. And in my view, it is undermining American democracy and it is allowing Congress to represent wealthy campaign contributors and not the working families of this country.” PeopleCountryReasonPoliticalViewsDemocracyStreetsHugeWallAmountCongressCampaignsReason WhyWealthyAllowingPolitical SystemsUnderminingContributorsAmerican Democracy Author:Bernie Sanders
“I am not a huge fan of being around people all the time. I really like being able to leave people.” PeopleAbleFansHuge Author:Guy Branum
“A lot of seriously insane people have managed to acquire huge followings based on the idea that their insanity is a kind of enlightenment. An obvious example would be Charles Manson or Shoko Asahara who is the person responsible for the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway.” PeopleKindPersonsIdeasWould BeExampleHugeEnlightenmentResponsibleObviousFollowingInsaneInsanityAcquireGasSubwayTokyoManson Author:Brad Warner
“A huge number of Americans still believe that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11. You have a people that don't know anything about the rest of the world, and you have leaders who lie to them, lie to them, and lie to them.” PeopleKnowsWorldBelieveStillsLyingNumbersLeaderHugeResponsibleSaddamHusseinHuge Numbers Author:Gore Vidal
“My own show with Sterling Ruby, for example, seems like such a huge disconnection from Dior couture, but then I think, yeah, in both collections there was a very strong focus on the human hand and the actual work of people making garments. So in that sense, they were completely related. But I didn't realize that during the process.” PeopleThinkingHumansShowsHandsSeemsStrongProcessRealizingMy OwnFocusExampleHugeYeahRelatedCollectionsVery StrongGarmentsRubiesCoutureDisconnectionSterlingHuman HandsDior Author:Raf Simons
“I think at the end of the day you can do both: make money and stay true to yourself. But a lot of young people look for that fame that some of these huge artists that they see on TV have, not knowing they can do what some of these underground artist are doing which is not selling their souls for a buck.” PeopleThinkingLooksSoulEndsYoungArtistCan DoKnowingTvsHugeFameSellingMaking MoneyThe End Of The DayNot KnowingBucksTrue To YourselfStay TrueStay True To Yourself Author:Rahki
“My works are a direct response to the typical space opera. I grew tired of always reading about how the people with power, with agency, get involved in huge sweeping arcs of stories. I wanted stories that dealt with real people, people I could relate to.” PeopleRealStoriesWantedReadingSpaceHugeGrewInvolvedDirectTiredResponseRelateAgencyOperaTypicalGet InvolvedArcsSweeping Author:Nathan Lowell
“If you look at the banking business over many years, it's always been a huge user of technology. This has been going on my whole life, that people have been adding technology, digitizing services.” PeopleIfsYearsLooksHas BeensWholeTechnologyHugeWhole LifeUsersBanking Author:Jamie Dimon
“Part of the concept of the euro zone was to establish a common market. The banks were going to bank across all their countries like we bank across states. But that concept got killed for a whole bunch of reasons that I won't get into. That was a good concept, by the way. It may yet return, because there are huge economies of scale in banking. That's another thing people don't quite get.” PeopleWayMayCountryStatesReasonWholeCommonEconomyHugeReturnConceptsScalesBunchZoneBankingEuro Author:Jamie Dimon
“We got a lot of excellent people and businesses from Bear and WaMu. But Bear definitely was more painful. WaMu got us into Florida, California, and other states, which was a huge benefit - to expand and grow and add middle-market, private banking, investment banking, and other products, too.” PeopleStatesGrowsMiddleProductsHugeBearsBenefitsAddInvestmentPainfulExcellentCaliforniaFloridaBankingInvestment Banking Author:Jamie Dimon
“Nobody wanted to publish a book about fairies; they said people wouldn't be interested. Luckily, I discovered Lady Cottington and her pressed fairies, which revived a huge amount of interest in fairies, so I could go ahead and do the book I wanted to do.” PeopleSaidBookWantedInterestHugeAmountFairyThey SaidPublish Author:Brian Froud
“The idea was not to make a huge business, because the bigger you get, the more restraints I thought I might get. Number one was to do what I set out to do: make new and interesting things within the size of the business that is possible to do without restraints. The second goal was to do the business in order to achieve the first goal. That's what many people don't understand.” PeopleFirstsIdeasMightOrderGoalInterestingNumbersAchieveHugeBiggerSizeRestraintInteresting Things Author:Rei Kawakubo
“Social change really cannot happen unless people are willing to take a risk, and they were. And I was so moved by that, and of course by the way that he spoke, that made a huge dent in my belief system and my spirit.” PeopleWayMadeHappensSpiritCoursesBeliefSocialRiskWillingHugeMovedSpokesSocial ChangeBelief Systems Author:Joan Baez
“Where I grew up has had a huge influence on me. It's a place where there aren't many people and there's lots of sky.” PeopleSkyInfluenceHugeGrewGrew Up Author:John Cariani
“You have the mainstream bourgeois life of the U.S., Europe, the "developed" world - the life of technology, education, mortgages, careers, a certain level of physical comfort - while on the other hand, several billion people on the planet exist on less than a dollar a day. That's a huge and terrible reality to get your head around.” PeopleWorldHandsRealityCertainLevelsCareersTechnologyPlanetsHugeTerribleComfortEuropeDollarsBillionsMainstreamMortgageBourgeoisTechnology In Education Author:Ben Fountain
“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 come from a huge family. I am used to taking orders and being told what to do and not having an opinion, but I think that what I've gone through made me really sensitive to other people.” PeopleThinkingMadeUsedOrderOpinionGoneHugeSensitive Author:Frances Newton
“I hope that people will be held accountable, even if accountability just means naming it and letting the citizens of the country know where you're at. I think that has a huge impact on the way people think.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayMeanCountryHugeCitizensImpactAccountability Author:Christy Clark
“We also had a team of costumers that would do samples for us, of fabrics, textures, people doing silhouettes of things up on dress forms, just to kind of inform the design process. Through all of that we got to the point that we had to figure out how to light them up. So that was a huge undertaking.” PeopleKindLightFormProcessTeamFiguresDesignHugeDressesFabricTextureUndertakingsSampleSilhouettesDesign Process Author:Christine Bieselin Clark
“Someone asked me the other day, 'Do you get upset when people say you are the young Frank Sinatra?' It doesn't upset me. It is a huge compliment, but it is false.” PeopleYoungHugeUpsetComplimentFrank Author:Michael Buble
“You want to see the joy in people, and you want to see the person that always dreamt of being a star, you know? You want to see people having a great time. So Mariah Carey is a huge fan of George Michael.” PeopleKnowsWantPersonsJoyStarsFansHugeGreat Times Author:James Corden
“We made basement practice songs.To have them presented in such a huge fashion today - like at Primavera, where it's thousands of people in a festival environment - is surreal. I never thought some of the songs would ever need to be projected at such a volume or to such a wide span of people.” PeopleNeedsMadeTodaySongPracticeEnvironmentFashionHugeWideVolumeFestivalsSurrealBasementsFashion Today Author:David Pajo
“There's all these people involved, and it becomes this huge machine - it stops being just me making my own little songs for myself, or for the world. And it's hard to stop the machine. If you want to take time to write a record, they're like, "OK, tour through March, April, and June, then you can take a few weeks off to record in July before getting back on the road for the European festival circuit." After a while, I had to put my foot down.” PeopleIfsWorldWantWritingLittlesHardSongMy OwnRecordsWeekFeetHugeInvolvedMachinesMarchTake TimeFestivalsJuneAprilJulyCircuits Author:Zachary Cole Smith
“People are going to be way more patient listening to what I have to say now. I don't have five seconds to get their attention, I have five minutes. That's a huge window.” PeopleWayAttentionFiveMinutesHugeListeningWindowPatientSecondsFive Minutes Author:Zachary Cole Smith
“But whether we want to do it because we want to have people to have a different idea of who we are or not, we do it naturally. So the way we construct our narrative is different from the way we constructed it a year ago. The difference is maybe very small or it may be huge.” PeopleWayWantYearsMayIdeasDifferentDifferencesHugeYears AgoNarrativeWho We AreConstructsDifferent Ideas Author:Antonio Damasio
“The job of the critic, as it might have been conceived in the 1950's or 1960's, was some kind of role of moral arbiter for people, not a huge number of people, but people who were, you know, fairly educated, well-placed people.” PeopleKnowsWellsKindHas BeensMightJobsNumbersMoralRolesHugeCriticsEducatedMight Have Been1960sArbiterHuge Numbers Author:Louis Menand
“Traditionally women have been more reticent to acknowledge their ambition and to say it with pride. So I like having people who work for us who are ambitious, engaged, respectful. Mis-hiring is a huge mistake. It's a tremendous opportunity cost throwing the position to the wrong person.” PeoplePersonsHas BeensOpportunityMistakePositionHugePrideCostAmbitionAcknowledgeEngagedThrowingAmbitiousRespectfulHiringWrong PersonOpportunity Cost Author:Ivanka Trump
“With hacking getting more and more sophisticated, the hacking community has gone from the hobbyist in the basement to huge sophisticated companies that are essentially doing this, or groups of people or foreign agents inside and outside the United States.” PeopleStatesCommunityUnitedCompanyUnited StatesGoneGroupsHugeAgentsSophisticatedBasementsHackingInside And Outside Author:Tim Cook
“People are running huge enterprises off of hacking and stealing data.” PeopleRunningHugeStealingDataEnterpriseHacking Author:Tim Cook
“I have this huge, huge fan base of people who've never seen a Broadway show, but I think it's a great introduction to what Broadway is because my shows are not that. I think that if you're getting people to go to theater then somebody should be celebrating that.” PeopleIfsThinkingShouldShowsFansHugeTheaterCelebrateBroadwayIntroductionBroadway Shows Author:Tyler Perry
“I kind of don't believe in actors directing themselves. Obviously some people have done it well, but I don't see how I could. It's funny that you ask, because I've just been thinking that maybe I'd rather direct The Bell Jar than act in it. It's a huge leap to go from a short to a feature, so I'm tentative - I'm like, Well, that's just so triple-type-A personality of you.” PeopleThinkingBelieveWellsKindDoneActorsAsksHugeTypePersonalityDirectDon't BelieveFeaturesLeapBellsJarsBell Jar Author:Julia Stiles
“I felt sorry for Senzo Meyiwa family and for the people of South Africa because it's a shame we lost such a huge talent. In all the games he had played I think he didn't concede any goal.” PeopleThinkingGamesLostFeltGoalTalentHugeShameSouthSorrySouth Africa Author:Stephen Keshi
“The people that are succeeding have often had a mentor of some kind. I think it makes a huge difference.” PeopleThinkingKindDifferencesHugeSucceedMentor Author:Julie Delpy
“As more and more people recognize the level of violence involved and the consequences of CTE [chronic traumatic encephelopathy, a degenerative brain disorder], they're obviously going to say "We don't want this to be a part of culture." And they overlook the fact that there's a huge swath of the populace where physicality is still a real common thing.” PeopleWantStillsRealFactsCultureLevelsCommonBrainViolenceHugeInvolvedConsequenceDisorderPhysicalityCommon Things Author:Chuck Klosterman
“All roads seem to have come back to Doctor Who in our life. But, no, it was a huge part of my growing up. I was a massive fan and it certainly inspired me to get into acting and to be ... one of those people that tells stories on TV. That was a huge part of my childhood.” PeopleStoriesSeemsActingGrowing UpOur LivesGrowingFansChildhoodTvsHugeDoctorsInspiredMassiveDoctor Who Author:David Tennant
“A huge part of the American trans population that's often overlooked are trans teenagers. Many of them are homeless, and those are not the people who are necessarily going in for a custom suit. But that's one of the reasons why we were excited that we got to do a contest with HBO to sponsor a young person getting a suit made who might not have the means to do it on their own.” PeopleMeanPersonsMadeReasonMightYoungHugePopulationExcitedSuitsTeenagerReason WhyCustomsHomelessContestsTransOverlookedSponsorsHbo Author:Lena Dunham
“The population explosion is an ecological phenomenon of displacement. Unless we solve that ecological problem of displacing people - to build huge dams, to build motorways, to take away what people need in order to survive - we will keep pumping more and more money into population programs. We will have more and more coercive and violent methods through which women's bodies are treated as experimental grounds for new contraceptives. Yet we will not have a solution to the problem of numbers.” PeopleNeedsProblemBodyOrderNumbersHugeSolutionsProgramMethodPopulationSolveViolentTreatedPhenomenonMore MoneyExplosionsEcologicalDamsWomen's BodiesDisplacementContraceptivesPopulation Explosion Author:Vandana Shiva
“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
“I'm just really not even that huge of a UFC fan. If you go on my Instagram or Twitter, you will notice ... people that I've actually met and hung out with, you know, I'm not like a huge UFC guy.” PeopleIfsKnowsGuyFansHugeGoes OnMetsHungInstagramUfc Author:Jon Jones
“People, by nature, have a tendency to snap. We get upset at things. We get angry. I'm sure everybody has said, once or twice in their life, "God, I just want to kill you!" That's just a thought that we have. That's a natural thought. It is only when people act upon that, that it becomes this huge deal.” PeopleWantSaidNaturalDealsHugeAngryTendenciesUpsetSnapsJust A Thought Author:Edwin Hodge
“I think it's incredibly basic: we have to now deliver all of the huge advantages of trading with the 92 per cent of people in the world who aren't in the EU, so for me that was the final deciding factor.” PeopleThinkingWorldHugeAdvantageFinalsFactorsCentsTrading Author:Andrea Leadsom
“We've seen progressive rock all over the world, in South America, Europe, Asia, across the US and North America and Australia. There's huge audiences for this stuff. For me it's always been there and it's just a matter of time before the people have more of the means to spread the word.” PeopleWorldMeanMatterAmericaStuffAudienceRocksHugeEuropeSouthSpreadAustraliaProgressiveAsiaNorth AmericaSouth AmericaMatter Of Time Author:John Petrucci
“I deal with negative, nasty comments on a regular basis. It's difficult to digest because I've always been sensitive and it's a slap in the face to have someone respond cruely when you're trying to lift people up. It's been a huge lesson for me.” PeopleTryingFacesDifficultDealsHugeLessonsNegativeBasesLiftsSensitiveCommentNastySlapSlap In The Face Author:Kathryn Budig
“Many people theorize poverty, but so many elements of poverty, individually, for most people who theorize about poverty would be really difficult to even comprehend the individual things. Just take homelessness. If you are homeless, what does it mean not to have a post box where people can contact you; what does it mean not knowing where you're going to sleep at the end of the day; what does it mean not having a place where you can store what little you might possess. So dealing with homelessness in itself is a huge thing for most people who are commentators [on] or benefactors to poverty.” PeopleIfsMeanLittlesDoeEndsMightWould BeIndividualDifficultSleepPovertyKnowingHugeElementsBoxesStoresContactPostsThe End Of The DayNot KnowingHomelessHomelessnessGoing To SleepCommentatorsBenefactors Author:Kumi Naidoo
“I think I've set some big goals. The American people haven't had a raise in 15 years. Getting incomes up is a huge goal. Now maybe it's not as exciting to some people, but it's a huge goal.” PeopleThinkingYearsBigsGoalHavensHugeExcitingRaisesIncome Author:Hillary Clinton
“Having a horse is a huge responsibility, so people should be very careful before they consider getting one.” PeopleShouldResponsibilityHugeHorseCareful Author:Bo Derek
“I am a huge animal lover. Growing up, my mother and I rescued countless animals - dogs, cats, birds, rabbits, even a turtle. I have been accused of caring more about animals than I do about people.” PeopleHas BeensMotherAnimalGrowing UpGrowingDogHugeLoversBirdCatCaringAccusedRabbitsAnimal LoveTurtlesAnimal LoverCaring More Author:Amanda Schull