“There has never been just 'coach class' health care, but with these amenities you are seeing people get priorities according to your ability to pay. It's one thing to say you get perks; it's another to say you can buy your way to the head of the line.” PeopleWayCareLinesAbilityMoneyPayClassSeeingOne ThingCoachesPrioritiesHealth CarePerksAmenities Author:Arthur Caplan
“What you must understand is oppression does not end with the niggers. It does not end with the poor people, it doesn't end with the women, or the pregnant women. It goes on up the line to the executive who has his bag searched in the airport.” PeopleDoeEndsLinesPoorGoes OnOppressionBagsExecutivesPregnantPoor PeopleAirportsPregnant Women Author:Florynce Kennedy
“In Sumter and other counties [in South Carolina] the whites are resorting to intimidation and violence to prevent the colored people from organizing for the elections. The division there is still on the color line. Substantially all the whites are Democrats and all the colored people are Republicans. There is no political principle in dispute between them. The whites have the intelligence, the property, and the courage which make power. The negroes are for the most part ignorant, poor, and timid. My view is that the whites must be divided there before a better state of things will prevail.” PeopleStillsStatesPoliticalPoliticsLinesPoorViewsPrinciplesViolenceColorRepublicanRelationElectionPropertyDemocratSouthIgnorantAfrican AmericanDivisionDividedDisputesRace RelationsCountyCarolinaIntimidationSouth Carolina Author:Rutherford B. Hayes
“You cant drag people from understanding to action. A customer isnt actually at the last mile if youre the one dragging her to the finish line.” PeopleIfsActionLastsUnderstandingLinesCustomersMilesDragCantFinish Line Author:Thomas P.M. Barnett
“Why do people go to the cinema? What takes them into a darkened room where, for two hours, they watch the play of shadows on a sheet? The search for entertainment? The need for a kind of drug? ..I think that what a person normally goes to the cinema for is time: for time lost or spent or not yet had. He goes there for living experience; for cinema, like no other art, widens, enhances and concentrates a person’s experience-and not only enhances it but makes it longer, significantly longer. That is the power of cinema: ‘stars’, story-lines and entertainment have nothing to do with it.” PeopleThinkingNeedsKindPersonsArtTwoPlayStoriesLostStarsHoursLinesRoomsWatchesDrugShadowEntertainmentCinemaSheets Author:Andrei Tarkovsky
“When people are oppressed, and human rights are denied - particularly along sectarian lines or ethnic lines - when dissent is silenced, it feeds violent extremism, it creates an environment that is ripe for terrorists to exploit. When peaceful, democratic change is impossible, it feeds into the terrorist propaganda that violence is the only answer available.” PeopleHumansChangeLinesAnswersEnvironmentRightsViolenceImpossibleDemocraticHuman RightsAvailableTerroristViolentPeacefulPropagandaDeniedOppressedExploitsDissentExtremismRipe Author:Barack Obama
“Here's how I became myself: mess, failure, mistakes, disappointments, and extensive reading; limbo, indecision, setbacks, addiction, public embarrassment, and endless conversations with my best women friends; the loss of people without whom I could not live, the loss of pets that left me reeling, dizzying betrayals but much greater loyalty, and overall, choosing as my motto William Blake's line that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love.” PeopleReadingLeftLinesLossMistakeGreaterConversationEndureAddictionDisappointmentBetrayalLoyaltyEndlessMessPetMottoEmbarrassmentSetbackBeamIndecisionBlakeMy MottoPet LossLimboExtensive Reading Author:Anne Lamott
“The line between the white-science and the black-science is very narrow. You can open roads or you can kill people by the same dynamite!” PeopleScienceBlackLinesWhiteDynamiteOpen Road Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“People used to think of vocal music as boring choir stuff, once you figured out that you can do crazy beat-boxing, awesome bass lines (and) throw everything together, you just have really cool music.” PeopleThinkingTogetherUsedStuffCan DoLinesMusicCrazyBeatsBoringBoxingVocalBassReally CoolChoirCool MusicVocal Music Author:Isaac Hecker
“Most actors are very deeply passionate about their line of work. I suppose there are probably people who sell insurance policies that are passionate about it, but I'm thinking the ratio is a little higher for actors. But, I may be wrong.” PeopleThinkingMayLittlesActorsLinesPolicyHigherSellsPassionateVery DeepRatiosInsurance Policy Author:Greg Kinnear
“When I was doing drugs and alcohol, I thought I'll have a drink and a line of this and I'll smoke this. I didn't go, 'Then I'm going to go out and get drunk, come back strangle my wife and wake up in jail on charges of attempted murder,' but that's what happened. I'm not telling people what to do. If they can enjoy doing it and they get on with it and they can handle it fine, but don't involve me. I'm lucky to be alive; you're playing with Russian roulette.” PeopleIfsEnjoyLinesAliveWifeHappenedFineDrinkDrugLuckyMurderWake UpMy WifeAlcoholHandleDrunkSmokeJailDrugs And AlcoholRouletteRussian RouletteLucky To Be Alive Author:Ozzy Osbourne
“Marijuana does not lead to harder drugs. People will get bored of the pot and move on down the line to stronger drugs to get the high they need. They either stay with pot or quit.” PeopleNeedsDoeMovingLinesDrugHarderStrongerQuittingBoredPotMarijuana Author:Steven Machat
“People just don't know how to write down a simple easy line. It's difficult for them; it's like trying to keep a hard-on while drowning - not many can do it.” PeopleKnowsWritingTryingHardEasyDifficultCan DoLinesSimpleKnow HowDrowning Author:Charles Bukowski
“But I'm here to serve people. I'm not here to wave my finger in people's faces and point out to them how terrible they are or what I hate about them or anything along those lines. That's not my place. I'm in no position to condemn anybody.” PeopleFacesHateLinesPositionTerribleI HateFingersWave Author:LeCrae
“We are missing the truth. We live in a society that lies and fosters and sells dishonesty at a discount. Remember the line, 'America spells cheese K-R-A-F-T? That does not spell cheese! We tell our kids that as long as it looks good on the outside, don't worry about the inside. Or work hard and you'll be rewarded in the end. That's not necessarily true anymore. We don't tell the truth about certain things. Young people see our hypocrisy. We haven't given them a model to follow.” PeopleLooksLongDoeEndsHardKidsAmericaRememberYoungLyingCertainGivenLinesWorryMissingHavensHard WorkModelsSellsHypocrisyTelling The TruthSpellsCheeseDishonestyDiscounts Author:Iyanla Vanzant
“I've been so mistreated by male authority in my life that I had a terrible time in my marriage trying to be a submissive wife. I wanted to rule the roost in everything. And it wasn't even really that I was rebellious; I was afraid of being hurt. And I think that a lot of people that choose these alternative lifestyles, I think it's because they've been hurt somewhere along the line very badly.” PeopleThinkingTryingWantedHurtLinesWifeTerribleAuthorityMalesLifestyleAlternativesRebelliousSubmissiveBeing HurtBeen HurtMistreatedTerrible TimesRoostAfraid Of Being Hurt Author:Joyce Meyer
“I think you can talk about anything if the context is correctly arranged. If you set up the context and you bring the audience along carefully enough with you, you can get them to cross the line with you. What I try to do is talk about things that bother me, and I hope that in doing so I bother other people.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingEnoughLinesAudienceCrossesBother Author:George Carlin
“For some reason California's always been where the struggle is about how much authority you can impose on people's private lives. It seems to show up there most clearly. They had a helmet law for motorcycles in California and the bikies were saying things like, "It restricts my vision. I can't hear what my bike's doing. If it was on fire I wouldn't know it until my ass caught." And at the bottom line what the bikies were saying was, "Look, it's my goddamn head and if I want to splatter my brains all over the guardrails on the Coast Highway, super for me."” PeopleIfsKnowsWantLooksI CanReasonShowsSeemsLawLinesBrainVisionStruggleFireAuthorityBottomCaughtAssCaliforniaCoastBikeHighwaysBottom LinePrivate LifeMotorcycleHelmetGuardrails Author:Stephen King
“I love everything black, because black is cool. When something crosses over, people are like, "Oh, this is a crossover." First of all, there is no urban anymore. Pop culture is black. White kids are dressing like black kids. It's all crossed the lines now. The way I understand it is, everything black is cool. When it crosses over to white, that means it's going from cool to uncool. That's what crossover is.” PeopleWayFirstsMeanKidsCultureBlackLinesWhiteCrossesPopsUrbanDressingsPop CultureBlack WhiteCrossoverUncool Author:Brett Ratner
“In wrestling there are so many people inside and outside the ring, and it's so live, and it's this whole adrenaline thing. Whereas you move it into this more intimate thing, everything gets all quiet, someone says action, and you have to say the lines and make the words your own. It couldn't be any more different and it's weird sometimes trying to explain that to people. When I tell people that acting is much more terrifying to me than going out in front of ten thousand people, they don't quite believe it because for some reason that intimacy is just terrifying to me.” PeopleTryingBelieveDifferentSometimesReasonWholeActionMovingLinesActingFrontsThousandQuietTenRingsIntimacyIntimateWrestlingGoing OutAdrenalineInside And Outside Author:Dave Bautista
“The whole notion of politics is they always present you with this or this or this. I’ll get a newspaper to read between the lines. Why do you have to adhere to prescribed formulas that they have and people argue over them and they’re all in a box. And you watch Fox claw CNN, and CNN claw Fox. Sometimes I catch a piece of the news and it seems insanity to me. I quietly support candidates. I’m not out there banging a drum for candidates. But I have supported a candidate and it’s a whole other world.” PeopleWorldSometimesWholeSeemsLinesWatchesSupportPiecesNewsNotionBoxesArguingNewspapersInsanityCandidatesFormulasFoxesOther WorldsClawsCnnBangingBetween The LinesRead Between The Lines Author:Mel Gibson
“You can look at what's happened to America in the last years and say a lot of people were asleep. A lot of people were not staying awake and watching what was going on and facing the pain of that and dealing with it.I don't care if the rest of the audience doesn't think along those lines at all, because the audience is a huge spectrum of people, from people who are introspective to people who just want to be scared and have fun, and all the points in between.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantYearsLooksCarePainLastsAmericaFunLinesAudienceHappenedHugeScaredDon't CareI Don't CareHaving FunAwakeStayingLast YearSpectrumIntrospectiveDealing With It Author:Wes Craven
“If I'm playing someone who's smart, suddenly every character I've played is smart. If I'm playing a bad guy, every character is a bad guy. I suppose it's that thing where people want to see a through-line to understand you. I mean, you know, I have played pretty ordinary people too.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantMeanCharacterGuyLinesSmartOrdinaryOrdinary PeopleBad GuysPlaying Someone Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“I knew I wanted to be in comedy but the path of least resistance was doing stand-up in folk music clubs where I could get on stage. I guess you could get up no matter how bad you were and you didn't have to audition. You just got up. Everything else required an audition and if you auditioned for a TV show, you would stand in line with a hundred other people. But at the clubs, it was okay just to get up, so that's why I started in stand-up.” PeopleIfsMatterShowsWantedLinesPathComedyStageTvsHundredOkayFolksClubsResistanceGet UpTv ShowsAuditionsFolk MusicPath Of Least Resistance Author:Steve Martin
“One of the jobs of a writer is to add nuance and ambiguity to that straight line that people often draw to very specific kinds of heroism. Most of us don't get to be Snooki. For most of us heroism has to be in our everyday lives.” PeopleKindJobsLinesDrawsAddEverydayHeroismEveryday LifeAmbiguityNuanceStraight LinesSnooki Author:John Green
“I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change. I am far lazier than that.” PeopleTryingSocialLinesFrontsSocial ChangeTrenchesGreat Respect Author:Jon Stewart
“The biggest reward is seeing via social media people sending me pictures back with excitement of what they bought from my fashion line. I ReTweet most everyone i see who tweets a photo.” PeopleSocialLinesSeeingMediaFashionRewardsSocial MediaExcitementTweetRetweet Author:Ashley Purdy
“When it comes to racism, you hear people say, "I don't care if people are white, black, purple or green." Hold on, now, purple or green? Come on now, you gotta draw the line somewhere.” PeopleIfsHumorCareFunnyBlackLinesWhiteRacismDrawsGreenDon't CareI Don't CarePurple Author:Mitch Hedberg
“Many people think the Cards at the end of the wire will cross the finish line first.” PeopleThinkingFirstsEndsHumorFunnyLinesCrossesBaseballCardsWireFinish Line Author:Jerry Coleman
“I'm making music for other people to listen to for pleasure. And hopefully, later on maybe they'll listen to it and go, "That bass line, boy, did you hear the way those drums interacted with that?"” PeopleWayLinesPleasureBoysHopefullyBass Author:Lauryn Hill
“You make the work for yourself first and the next line is the people you trust, and you know that they're going to tell you what they feel. They let you know if you're dishing bullshit or if it's real.” PeopleIfsKnowsFeelsFirstsRealNextLinesBullshit Author:Robert Longo
“Astronauts are the only kind of celebrity I know who can have a line of people waiting for their autograph, even if the line of people does not know in advance the astronaut's name.” PeopleIfsKnowsKindDoeNamesWaitingLinesAstronautAutographs Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“It's so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can't believe how insufferably boring it is. Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.” PeopleBelieveUsedWaitingLinesBoringLoopsWaiting Around Author:Al Pacino
“I think people are drawn to characters that break the rules. I think there is something about a good person doing bad things for what they consider to be a good reason. Then the battle is on to almost prove to the audience that it's justified. How far can you go with that? How far can that character go before people won't accept it? Trying to walk to edge of that line is a challenge.” PeopleThinkingTryingPersonsReasonCharacterChallengesLinesWalksAcceptingBreakAudienceBattleProveEdgesBad ThingsJustifiedGood Person Author:Steven Knight
“The pressure to succeed has a lot to do with why people overstep the line. It is a peculiar weakness of western culture where we have made a fetish of success.” PeopleMadeCultureLinesSucceedWeaknessPressureWesternPeculiarWestern CultureFetish Author:Desmond Tutu
“I want to feel like the things I did made a difference. That's one of the reasons I spend time greeting people on rope lines, because I'm always thinking, 'Maybe this interaction, particularly if I'm meeting kids, will change someone's life.' That's how I think about the work I do as First Lady. It's a rare spotlight. I want to make sure I don't waste it.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantFeelsFirstsMadeReasonKidsDifferencesLinesWasteMeetingsInteractionEnd TimesRopeSpend TimeSpotlightFirst LadyGreetingsAlways Thinking Author:Michelle Obama
“I think people in the future will come up to me and say, "Everything that you are and everything that you have is because of that butler [film]." Of course, that's Oprah's line from the movie, but I think it will resonate with my legacy with the movie.” PeopleThinkingFilmCoursesLinesCome UpLegacyButlers Author:Lee Daniels
“I never have free time, I don't know about you. You ever go to the cash machine, there's two people in line in front of you and you get kinda flustered, you're like "Forget it! I'm not standing here for 40 seconds. I got things to do, okay?"” PeopleKnowsTwoHumorFunnyLinesForgetFrontsStandingOkayMachinesThings To DoSecondsCashForget ItFree Time Author:Jim Gaffigan
“I'm not ambitious when it comes to my acting career. I'm not breaking down my agency's doors or sending out headshots. Even when I'm offered work, I always want small parts. When it comes to things that other people have written, I just don't know what I'm doing. I'm terrible at memorizing a script and reading lines. I get confused and I don't understand and it just looks fake to me. It's more difficult for me to be creative that way.” PeopleKnowsWayWantLooksReadingDifficultLinesActingCareersCreativeWrittenDoorsTerribleScriptsFakeAgencyConfusedAmbitiousBe CreativeBreaking DownSmall PartsMemorizingHeadshots Author:Amy Sedaris
“By being an elite athlete a lot of people think that you can go away or go places and get away with things. I'm more of the laid-back person. I don't have to go and skip the line. I don't have a problem waiting.” PeopleThinkingPersonsProblemWaitingLinesAthleteGet AwayGoing AwayElitesSkipLaid BackElite Athletes Author:Andre Johnson
“People have thought that some of my writing and lines are done by a machine. I'm able to move in a way that's part gestural dance performance, and it's fun for me, so I incorporate that into the painting.” PeopleWayWritingDoneAbleMovingFunLinesPaintingMachinesPerformancesDance Performance Author:Jose Parla
“When you're in doubt about the future and you're in doubt about how solid this thing is that you're laying your life and your soul on the line for, you will probably retract into yourself a little bit and think, No, there's only so much I can give to something that everyone doesn't believe in. There's been chipping away, people have been chipping away at it, so it's just you in the spotlight in front of all these people.” PeopleThinkingGivingBelieveLittlesHas BeensI CanSoulBitsLinesDoubtFrontsLittle BitYour SoulSpotlightChipping Away Author:Richard Ashcroft
“Urban artist have to face the stigma not only from white Australia but black Australia too; that's horrific when people say that their art isn't "Aboriginal" if it doesn't have dots or lines or moieties in it.” PeopleIfsArtFacesArtistBlackLinesWhiteArt IsAustraliaUrbanStigmaDotsHorrificAboriginal Author:Warwick Thornton
“At times it seems as if you're a glorified babysitter with these guys, but they're all really good people. You just want to keep everybody happy. One of the biggest things is to keep the lines of communication open and just to keep everything running as smoothly as possible.” PeopleIfsWantSeemsRunningGuyLinesCommunicationGood PeopleBabysitterLines Of Communication Author:Gerad Adams
“It's always important to draw a line somewhere in a respectful way where you're still approachable, you're still there for the people and meeting them halfway, but you're not neglecting your own duties and your own time to rejuvenate to be able to do it again.” PeopleWayStillsImportantAbleLinesDutyDrawsMeetingsNeglectHalfwayRespectful Author:Chuck Ragan
“A wonderful blend of technology & people power for India's growth, 'MyGov' has several discussion forums, on-line & on-ground tasks. I am delighted to invite you to join 'MyGov' & contribute towards taking India to greater heights of progress.” PeopleGrowthLinesTechnologyGreaterProgressWonderfulTasksIndiaDiscussionHeightInvitesDelightedForumsGreater Heights Author:Narendra Modi
“This budget is a Sanjeevani (new life) and an Arunoday (sunrise) for the last man in the line. This budget converts hopes and aspirations of the people into trust. It adds a new ray of hope for the poor and downtrodden sections of the society.” PeopleMenLastsLinesPoorIndiaAddBudgetsAspirationRaysSunriseSectionsNew LifeGovernanceDowntroddenRay Of Hope Author:Narendra Modi
“I came from a war-torn country and I was a victim of that racism because within tribes, within political lines, people were fighting. The first thing that I like to fight is racism because I know what it means, how it destroys the fabric of my society, of my wellbeing.” PeopleKnowsFirstsMeanWarCountryPoliticalFightingLinesRacismVictimFabricTribesTornWellbeing Author:Pearl Tan
“Every year, it takes more brains to navigate this complicated world. More people are falling below what I call the 'incompetence line' through no fault of their own.” PeopleWorldYearsInspirationFallLinesBrainFaultsComplicatedIncompetenceNavigateComplicated World Author:Scott Adams
“If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. The first people who are going to be in line to turn in their guns are law-abiding citizens. Criminals are going to be left with guns. I believe that concealed carry is a way of reducing gun violence.” PeopleIfsWayFirstsBelieveLawTurnsLeftI BelieveLinesViolenceCitizensGunCriminalsReducingAbidingConcealedOutlawGun ViolenceLaw Abiding CitizenConcealed Carry Author:Gary Johnson