“How can you build a relationship when you're just sending out beats? Most people will come in and play their beats, but I like to make mine on the spot.” PeoplePlayMinesBeatsSpots Author:Young Chop
“I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.” PeopleCharacterHappinessMinesBeing HappyBeing Myself Author:Angelina Jolie
“Talk to people who know more than you. I feel like we're in this stupid sea of opinion, like "My opinion is valid because it's mine and I have it."” PeopleKnowsFeelsOpinionSeaStupidMines Author:Jessa Crispin
“I can sit in the room with the other writers and just keep saying no until there's something I really like or until I come up with something. In that respect the proportion of what's mine and what's other people's is controlled by me. It isn't even fair to talk about.” PeopleI CanRoomsMinesFairsCome UpProportionControlledSaying No Author:Paul Reubens
“The Pivot Questionnaire that I ask other people, when I have on rare occasion answered it, the answer to the question, "What turns you on?" Is words. Not mine, other people's. Words, words, words, that's what turns me on.” PeopleTurnsAsksAnswersMinesOccasionsTurn MeRare OccasionQuestionnaires Author:James Lipton
“Some people connect with a story and may find between the lines something that might be useful to him or her, but that's not the intention of the author, I think. At least not mine.” PeopleThinkingMayStoriesMightLinesMinesIntentionBetween The Lines Author:Isabel Allende
“Some people think prayer stops bullets or rockets or land mines. It doesn't. That's magic, that's not God. Sometimes, you're just in the wrong place at the wrong time.” PeopleThinkingSometimesPrayerMagicLandMinesBulletsRocketsWrong Time Author:John Shelby Spong
“There are many hundreds of millions of people who have jobs harder than (mine), and I also remind myself of that every day. No matter how frustrating this can be, I am very lucky that I have been able to cobble together a little life, in which (comedy) is what I do. I am certainly not in danger of getting stuck in a mine anytime soon.” PeopleLittlesHas BeensMatterAbleTogetherJobsMillionsComedyDangerMinesLuckyHarderStuckFrustrating Author:Chris Gethard
“Capricornia there is a particular regional particularity and that is the Adani mine. We know that Adani, the massive Indian coal company, wants to develop the Carmichael mine... And people in Rockhampton know that and they know that the Greens are doing everything they possibly can to prevent the development of the Adani mine.” PeopleKnowsWantCompanyMinesParticularDevelopmentIndianMassiveCoal Author:George Brandis
“This is a very practical discussion about the fact that one of the largest coal companies in the world, Adani, wants to build one of the, develop one of the largest coal mines in Australia in this region of Australia. And if they get the green light to do that, that will secure the economic future of people in Rockhampton, and people in central Queensland. It will secure their jobs in the future, and that's what they're concerned about.” PeopleIfsWorldWantFactsLightJobsCompanyEconomicMinesConcernedGreenPracticalsSecureDiscussionAustraliaRegionsCoalQueenslandGreen Lights Author:George Brandis
“Our basic fundamental desires are overly stimulated. A friend of mine said, "you have a generation of people that have been accidentally marketed to."” PeopleHas BeensSaidDesireGenerationsMinesFundamentals Author:Russell Brand
“I have friends who were friends of mine before I did music and they are my friends now, and we share life experiences. It's no fun unless you're sharing with people, looking out for them as they are looking out for you.” PeopleFunShareMinesMy FriendsLife Experience Author:James Blunt
“I actually don't think of whiteness and heterosexuality as 'the norm'. Maybe there are people who still do but none of them are close friends of mine.” PeopleThinkingStillsMinesNormClose FriendsWhitenessHeterosexuality Author:Jacqueline Woodson
“I know society these days, I know people are wanting to find everything they can to pick things apart, but I have to write from my heart and my experiences, and I fully own them. Those are mine to share.” PeopleKnowsWritingHeartShareMinesMy HeartPicksThese Days Author:LeAnn Rimes
“We have a very robust set of plans. And people have looked at both of our plans, have concluded that mine would create 10 million jobs and yours [Donald Trump] would lose us 3.5 million jobs, and explode the debt which would have a recession.” PeopleJobsLosesMillionsPlansMinesTrumpDebtRecessionsRobust Author:Hillary Clinton
“The people that are around me that give me ideas that I pass along or we try, the one thing I never do, I never give credit to anybody but myself. So I take all of the ideas. So everybody thinks that all of the ideas are mine.” PeopleThinkingGivingTryingIdeasOne ThingMinesGive MeCredit Author:John Calipari
“I wouldn't necessarily assume that because Capricornia has traditionally been a Labor seat, that it'll go back to the Labor Party this time because the big issue in Capricornia which is based on the city of Rockhampton is the fact that the economy is - the regional economy is in a poor shape as a result, in particular of the decline of the mining industry and they are looking to the Carmichael mine, the Adani project as containing all of the prospects that they see for their future and that is why people in Rockhampton are very, very fearful of a Labor-Greens government.” PeopleFactsBigsGovernmentPoorResultsPartyCitiesEconomyIssuesMinesParticularIndustryShapesProjectsLaborAssumingSeatsFearfulDeclineProspectsContainingMining Author:George Brandis
“One of the senior Labor frontbenchers from Queensland, Terri Butler, said that she was against the Adani mine. So that is the clearest statement we've had from a person who would be a member of a Shorten government, that if there were to be a Shorten government as far as she's concerned, the Adani mine wouldn't go ahead. People in Rockhampton know that and they're very worried about it.” PeopleIfsKnowsPersonsSaidGovernmentWould BeMinesMembersConcernedLaborStatementsWorriedSeniorButlersQueensland Author:George Brandis
“Everyone has their set of problems and I'm certainly not going to sensationalize mine or try to evoke pity or sympathy out of people because I don't think they warrant that sort of thing. That's my private karma that I have to work out.” PeopleThinkingTryingProblemMinesWork OutKarmaPityEvokeWarrants Author:Chrissie Hynde
“In India people can't stomach this attitude of mine, and when I say, 'Hurry up, let's get to the point,' they feel hurt.” PeopleFeelsHurtAttitudeMinesIndiaStomach Author:Indira Gandhi
“There were people whom I considered friends or loved ones who either abandoned me or betrayed me in ways I'd never have suspected. But there were others who had been barely acquaintances of mine whose loyalty and efforts on my behalf made me realize that not everyone was as inherently rotten as I'd previously believed. So it caused a violent split in my view of humanity - people turned out to be far worse and far better than I'd ever dreamed possible.” PeopleWayMadeHumanityRealizingViewsEffortMinesLoyaltyViolentAbandonedLoved OnesSplitsBetrayedBehalfAcquaintanceRotten Author:Jim Goad
“A friend of mine said Winn-Dixie is the way that people want the world to be and Tiger Rising is the way that it is.” PeopleWorldWayWantSaidMinesRisingTigersDixie Author:Kate DiCamillo
“You move on. It's work. Yeah, I'm privileged and paid handsomely and it's not exactly being in a coal mine, but you still work your ass off and you work as hard as you possibly can and you hope that people connect to it and enjoy it.” PeopleStillsHardMovingEnjoyMinesPaidYeahAssPrivilegedCoal Author:Colin Farrell
“I remind myself Vincent van Gogh died without having sold a single painting. Like, art is not measured by the trappings that people attached to it. It's the thing itself, and so, as you know, it's been a dream of mine to write songs for Disney, and so, it's really exciting to finally hear. It's two and a half years.” PeopleKnowsWritingYearsArtTwoDreamSongHalfMinesPaintingArt IsExcitingDiedVansHalf A Year Author:Lin-Manuel Miranda
“They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.” PeopleFunnyDeathNiceMissingMinesLife And DeathFuneralNice ThingsFunerals And Death Author:Garrison Keillor
“I was extremely lucky to get this project [Brief Interviews with Hideous Men]. It was one of those things that I worked on in college. A friend of mine asked me to do a stage reading of that book and I was just completely blown away because, at that point, I was like, 'Acting's having fun with your friends and making people laugh.'” PeopleMenBookReadingFunActingLaughingStageMinesCollegeLuckyProjectsHaving FunInterviewsMaking People LaughHideousBlown Away Author:John Krasinski
“Remember that a book is many drafts - mine certainly are. It's improvisation. It's as much jazz and the way we talk and the way I heard people preach coming up as it is writing.” PeopleWayWritingBookRememberHeardMinesJazzImprovisation Author:John Edgar Wideman
“There is a lot of acting that is on the table - precisely, good acting. The best movies of mine are the ones that really nobody saw. The Groomsmen, Playing By Heart and Seeing Other People are by far the work I'm the most proud of.” PeopleHeartActingSawsSeeingMinesProudTablesGood Acting Author:Jay Mohr
“I came across an old story of mine that I'd written a decade ago. The main joke of the story is that a mother is telling her children about how she met their father online. The majority of memories the mother has all have to do with really funny links he sent her, a music download that she loved, etc. - and because of these superficial details she fell in love with the father. Reading it today, it's hardly a dystopian story; it's simply a realistic story about how people actually meet.” PeopleChildrenStoriesTodayMotherReadingFatherMemoriesWrittenMinesMetsJokesMajorityDetailsDecadesEtcOnlineLinksRealisticSuperficialDystopianDownloads Author:Alexander Weinstein
“One time, the Library of Congress was giving books to local libraries around the country on Islam. The library of a guy named Walter Jones, who's a member of Congress from North Carolina, got some books and resource materials, and he got up in the press and said he didn't want any Muslim books in the library. And the people said, "Wait a minute, that's kind of anti-Muslim." He said, "Oh no, Keith Ellison is a friend of mine." And I said, "You know what? We are friends, but you're wrong about this.” PeopleKnowsWantGivingKindSaidBookCountryGuyWaitingMinutesMinesMaterialsMembersResourcesPressesIslamLibraryCongressLocalsOne TimeCarolinaNorth CarolinaKeith Author:Keith Ellison
“I definitely, at times, felt the pressures of life similar to the pressures anyone would feel growing up. The only difference was that maybe more people were aware of mine. But, if anything, I changed the pressure from negative to positive. So, instead of thinking everybody wanted to see me fail, I decided everybody wanted to see me win, since I wanted to see myself win.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsWantedWinningFeltDifferencesGrowing UpGrowingFailingChangedMinesNegativeDecidedPressure Author:Keke Palmer
“When people accuse us of taking coltan from Congo, I don't understand what they mean. The quality of our own coltan here from Rwanda is much better. But still people from the UN come here, we show them our coltan mines, we show them the documents, then they go and say: Rwanda smuggles coltan.” PeopleMeanStillsShowsQualityMinesDocumentsCongoRwanda Author:Paul Kagame
“Like Nietzsche's own writings on education, most of mine were relatively youthful ones. Both were inspired by a critical animus against prevailing trends in education: in Nietzsche's case, the production either of 'useless', dry-as-dust scholars or people 'useful' for the needs of an expanding industrial economy; in my case, a similar subjection of education to economic imperatives, but also to ideological obsessions, notably with promoting 'equality'.” PeopleNeedsWritingCasesEconomyEconomicMinesInspiredProductionsCriticalObsessionDustUselessDryTrendsScholarExpandingPromotingImperativesIdeologicalPrevailingSubjectionAnimus Author:David E. Cooper
“I've always had a desire to write something and capture people's imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.” PeopleWritingDesireImaginationMinesCapturePeterCaptured Author:Patti Smith
“I'm just looking forward to doing these videos with AXE. Doing more directing, collaborating with them, finding ways to kind of like tap into temptation with their market and their audience and mine and find cool, creative ways to get the brand out to people. And I think they're doing a really, really good job. So we've got some cool stuff coming up.” PeopleThinkingWayKindJobsStuffAudienceCreativeMinesFindingsVideoTemptationBrandsGood JobLooking ForwardCollaboratingCool Stuff Author:Michael B. Jordan
“People on the autism spectrum don't think the same way you do. In my life, people who made a difference were those who didn't see labels, who believed in building on what was there. These were people who didn't try to drag me into their world, but came into mine instead.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayTryingMadeDifferencesBuildingMinesLabelsDragAutismSpectrum Author:Temple Grandin
“I have a process that I seem to always, to some degree, as a writer, adhere to, but I certainly have never imposed the way I write a novel on my students. When I had students, I never said, "You should never start writing a novel until you have the last sentence." I never did that, and I wouldn't do it now, but people now seem so interested in the process [of writing fiction] that I have to constantly make it clear when I describe mine that I'm not being prescriptive. I'm not proselytizing.” PeopleWayShouldWritingSaidSeemsLastsProcessFictionNovelClearStudentsMinesDegreesSentencesWriting FictionProselytizing Author:John Irving
“There's no way anyone's going to understand my own personal experiences, where the songs came from, because they're mine. But I was very conscious of leaving loads of space in the songs so that people could interpret them with their own memories, feelings, and emotions. I love the process of taking stuff away so that people could finish the songs themselves. I was hoping it'd end up being as universal as possible, even though it comes from the most personal place.” PeopleWayEndsFeelingsSongStuffProcessMemoriesMy OwnSpaceEmotionMinesConsciousUniversalLeavingLoadFeelings And EmotionsPersonal Experiences Author:Conor O'Brien
“I live my life like anybody else, and people choose to write about mine. And what they write I can't control - when they write lies at least - because the laws can't really protect you unless you can prove malicious intent. So I just choose not to read it.” PeopleWritingI CanLawLyingMinesProtectProveLiving My LifeProtect YouMaliciousI Live My Life Author:Ashton Kutcher
“I don't enjoy other people's dramas, and I don't enjoy mine.” PeopleEnjoyMinesDrama Author:Ali MacGraw
“People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on.” PeopleLifeSeemsFunnyLife IsMinesGoes OnConvincedTendenciesLife Is Short Author:John Malkovich
“I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.” PeopleIfsGivingFeltActingMinesOughtSceneObligation Author:Marilyn Monroe
“People make jokes about my bosoms, why don't they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It's obvious I've got big ones and if people want to assume they're not mine, then let them.” PeopleIfsWantLooksHeartBigsMinesJokesAssumingObviousBreastsBosoms Author:Dolly Parton
“In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words - that's how long a novel is.” PeopleThinkingWritingWellsLongImportantIdeasRememberNovelFiveMinesThousandDown AndSeatsSixtySeriousness Author:Terry Pratchett
“People of different faiths, like yours and mine, sometimes wonder where we can meet in common purpose, when there are so many differences in creed and theology. Surely the answer is that we can meet in service.” PeopleDifferentSometimesPurposeNationsDifferencesAnswersCommonWonderMoralMinesConvictionTheologyCreedsWorldviewCommon PurposeDifferent Faiths Author:Mitt Romney
“The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot of stories not unlike mine,' Rushdie says. 'Everybody comes from somewhere else. Everyone's got a Polish grandmother, some kind of metamorphosis in their family circumstances. That's a very big thing - the experience of not living where you started.” PeopleKindStoriesBigsNew YorkMinesCircumstancesGrandmotherBig ThingsSomewhere ElsePolishMetamorphosis Author:Salman Rushdie
“I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.” PeopleThinkingInspirationalBelievePhilosophyReligionWishOpinionDoubtMinesOughtHostDoubted Author:Bertrand Russell
“I am going to spend my time today just thanking the people that played a role in my career, because I truly do believe that I was blessed by a lot of people that paths crossed mine as I went down the road in my career.” PeopleBelieveTodayCareersRolesPathMinesWalkingBlessedMy TimeDown The Road Author:Nolan Ryan
“The rate of return on Social Security for people nearing retirement is about 1.5 percent. By the time young children like mine are ready to retire, that rate of return will be a negative percentage.” PeopleChildrenYoungSocialSecurityMinesReadyReturnPercentNegativeRateRetirementRetiringSocial SecurityPercentagesYoung Children Author:Paul Ryan
“I want to be able to work on a project that will give people around the world the chance to represent their own people, their own culture, their own stories, rather than just Hollywood - really, you know, dominated Hollywood. And that's a dream of mine.” PeopleKnowsWorldWantGivingStoriesDreamAbleCultureChanceMinesProjectsHollywoodAround The World Author:Steven Seagal