“Well, one thing that has changed is the number of people killed by terrorists in Pakistan. Civilians killed has gone down really quite dramatically. There was a newspaper article here about a month ago that got big headlines which said that civilian deaths from terrorism were down something like 80 percent or 90 percent from their peak of two or three years ago.” PeopleYearsWellsSaidTwoBigsThreeNumbersGoneOne ThingChangedMonthsPercentYears AgoTerrorismTerroristNewspapersArticlesThree YearsPakistanCiviliansHeadlinesCivilian Deaths Author:Mohsin Hamid
“There was something that was killing the people in the interior, in the forest area, of the country, and nobody quite knew what it was. That lasted a good three months before it was officially declared that it was Ebola virus. So it started off in Guinea and spread quite slowly, but then spread over the border into Sierra Leone and Liberia.” PeopleCountryThreeMonthsAreasKillingSpreadForestsBordersInteriorsVirusesThree MonthsGuineaSierraEbolaSierra LeoneEbola Virus Author:Ofeibea Quist-Arcton
“I think that there is a real beauty to the live aspect of the theater, and the working with a director for a month on a script in the isolation of a room and really deeply delving into who are these people, what is the story we're telling, how do we want to tell it?” PeopleThinkingWantRealStoriesRoomsMonthsDirectorsAspectTheaterScriptsIsolationReal BeautyReally DeepDelving Author:Karen Allen
“What a lot of people don't understand is that the music that they're hearing is usually months, and in some cases, years old. So I'm a lot better than whatever material people have been hearing.” PeopleYearsHas BeensCasesMaterialsMonthsHearing Author:JD Era
“I think it's fun to have people see everything at once, and then I think certain shows are very well-suited to being on every week and being spread out over months.” PeopleThinkingWellsShowsCertainFunWeekMonthsSpread Author:Judd Apatow
“People from the Porter Ranch neighborhood of Los Angeles are starting to return home today. A natural gas well leak in the neighborhood has been permanently sealed. It had been releasing methane and other pollutants into the air for four months. Thousands of people have complained of respiratory illnesses and other problems.” PeopleWellsHas BeensProblemHomeTodayNaturalFourAirMonthsReturnStartingIllnessGasNeighborhoodLos AngelesLeaksNatural GasRespiratoryMethane Author:Ari Shapiro
“Working with other people, it's hard to get them to make it sound like what you have in mind. Also, it's really expensive to get your tracks produced, so I thought if I could learn how to do it myself, I could make five albums in a month and it would be free, it would be me, and it would be everything that I'm doing.” PeopleIfsMindHardWould BeSoundFiveMonthsTrackAlbumsIf I CouldExpensiveWorking With Others Author:Nina Nesbitt
“I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.” PeopleTryingDoneHelpingHoursMy OwnNiceMonthsSixCome UpAlbumsStudiosHelping OthersSix MonthsHelping Other People Author:Beck
“People should quit their jobs, move to Oklahoma, move in with 34 people, pay $100 a month in rent and start a band or start painting. That way you'll feel like you have a purpose if you lose your mind, and you'll have some fun on the way.” PeopleIfsWayFeelsShouldMindJobsMovingPurposeFunLosesPayPaintingLike YouMonthsBandQuittingOklahoma Author:Josh Jones
“What's great about going on tour is that it immediately unburdens me of those self-centered misconceptions. Because suddenly, with these songs you've been obsessed with for months, you're playing them for hundreds of people.” PeopleSelfSongMonthsObsessedSelf CenteredMisconception Author:Greg Saunier
“There's a lot of stuff that I've been through in my life in the past couple of months that I don't really want to share with people who are close to me, but I have no option if it's my art.” PeopleIfsWantArtPastStuffShareMonthsCouple Author:Zachary Cole Smith
“I only do children's films now! I think when you go to LA some people feel you've defected a little bit and that's not really the case. Ideally, I would love to work here and to work in America. That's in an ideal world. In fact, I came back to Britain recently to do an ITV1 drama that will be out in April for a couple of months! But I'm flying back to LA to do a pilot season. So, to work in both places is great.” PeopleThinkingWorldFeelsChildrenLittlesFactsAmericaFilmBitsCasesMonthsCoupleDramaLittle BitIdealsSeasonsFlyingBritainPilotsAprilIdeal World Author:Ashley Jensen
“I was living in a loft with Dave Sitek - this loft full of people just working on their stuff. Some were painting, some were writing. Any plans you had were kind of like a plan for the next two months.” PeopleWritingKindTwoNextStuffPlansPaintingMonthsTwo MonthsDave Author:Babatunde Adebimpe
“I didn't want people to wait six months to get the clothes, I wanted a very immediate, real feel to it. You see it one night, the next morning you can go and buy the same outfit!” PeopleWantFeelsRealWantedNightNextWaitingMorningMonthsSixClothesSix MonthsOne Night Author:Esteban Cortazar
“I think one of the many interesting things about [Donald] Trump is that people in the media did not take him seriously for months. Then, when it was clear he was going to be the nominee, they immediately hit the panic button. I think they overlook the possibility that he could just be a really bad president in the way that presidents are traditionally bad.” PeopleThinkingWayPresidentInterestingClearMediaPossibilityMonthsTrumpPanicButtonsInteresting Things Author:Chuck Klosterman
“You know, I`ve had so many conversations over the last several months with people who have come up to me and said that they`re going to go vote for the first time because they want to vote against Donald Trump because he`s scaring them.” PeopleKnowsWantFirstsSaidLastsMonthsTrumpConversationFirst TimeVoteCome Up Author:Joaquin Castro
“I took a shot of morphine, liked it, and eventually became addicted. It takes quite a while. It took me three months the first time. This nonsense of people becoming addicted with one shot is medically unsound.” PeopleFirstsThreeMonthsBecomingShotsFirst TimeNonsenseThree MonthsMorphine Author:William S. Burroughs
“Now I'm in a situation where I have to plan very far ahead because there are people who are selling ads, so I have to really know what I'm going to do months in advance. If something's taking me a little bit longer to research, that's not okay. I can't take longer. I have to just get it done.” PeopleIfsKnowsLittlesI CanDoneBitsSituationPlansMonthsLittle BitResearchOkaySellingAdsGet It DoneNot Okay Author:Karina Longworth
“I don't go into any album with a concept or a deliberate direction. It's more letting the best music that really appeals to me at the time, the best songs that I find after many months and years of search and sifting through my collection, and asking radio people and journalists. It's really an ongoing search that's as much daunting as it is somewhat exciting.” PeopleYearsSongMonthsConceptsExcitingAskingRadioAlbumsAppealsJournalistCollectionsDeliberateOngoingSifting Author:Bonnie Raitt
“[Kanye West] took me to a fashion meeting in Paris once. I'd never met these people; I was so nervous. It was the beginning of our relationship, and I didn't know anyone in fashion. And he passed out at the table. I'm like, "I'm so sorry, we're jet-lagged." You don't know the number of times I've had to say that. I always flat-out lie that he's jet-lagged, even if we've been home for months.” PeopleIfsKnowsHomeLyingNumbersFashionMonthsMetsTablesMeetingsWestSorryNervousParisFlatsOur RelationshipJetI'm So Sorry Author:Kim Kardashian
“When I went off to college, I went believing I was a Republican. And actually I was president of Young Republicans for a couple of months and then I decided that I was much more in the camp of people like, you know, President Johnson - trying to promote civil rights, voting rights, ending poverty.” PeopleKnowsTryingBelieveYoungPresidentPovertyRightsCollegeLike YouMonthsCoupleRepublicanDecidedCivil RightsVotingCampsJohnsonRight To VoteEnding PovertyOff To CollegePresident Johnson Author:Hillary Clinton
“You have people that practice law and are lawyers and go to school for eight years, but you can become a cop in six months and don't have to have the same amount of training as a cosmetologist. That's insane. Someone that's holding a curling iron has more education and more training than people that have a gun and are going out on the street to protect us.” PeopleYearsSchoolLawPracticeStreetsMonthsAmountProtectSixTrainingGunEightLawyerInsaneIronCopGoing OutSix Months Author:Colin Kaepernick
“On the third Friday of each month, I go to the Andy Griffith Museum. I get to meet hundreds of fans who stand in long lines for hours to meet me. Some months I don't feel too good and I think maybe I won't go, but then when I go and get to be there with so many wonderful people it always lifts my spirits and makes me feel better. I wouldn't stand in line for hours to meet me, but I'm so glad my fans do.” PeopleThinkingFeelsLongSpiritHoursLinesWonderfulFansMonthsThirdsGladLiftsMuseumsFeel BetterFridayLong LinesMake Me Feel BetterEach Month Author:Betty Lynn
“I wish everyone in this country could magically leave the country for six months and view the United States from the outside for six months, and I think you'd see a new perspective to the people of this country.” PeopleThinkingCountryStatesWishUnitedViewsUnited StatesPerspectiveMonthsSixSix MonthsNew Perspective Author:Jesse Ventura
“Those things that you just do, if you put that together in a DVD program, let's say, for $97, to teach people how to do that. Well, if you sold 100 of those a month, that's $9,700 of income a month just teaching what you already do and know to people who want to learn how to do the same.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantWellsTogetherTeachTeachingMonthsProgramIncomeDvds Author:Brendon Burchard
“I was recently interviewed for radio in relation to the "Thanksgiving" show [2001] at the Saatchi gallery that I was part of. The interviewer said that people in London were very disturbed that I showed a picture of myself battered ("Nan One Month after Being Battered", 1984) and they thought that I set it up. I was accused of deliberately putting on a wig for that particular picture.” PeopleSaidShowsParticularMonthsRelationRadioLondonAccusedGalleryDisturbedWigsBatteredInterviewersPictures Of MyselfNans Author:Nan Goldin
“I moved cities for about four months to try to provoke some inspiration and put myself in an uncomfortable situation where I would be meeting new people and have a change in locale. I look back at my career and one of my favorite records I ever made was right after I moved to Nashville.” PeopleTryingLooksMadeInspirationWould BeCitiesSituationCareersRecordsFourMonthsMovedMeetingsMy FavoriteUncomfortableProvokingNashvilleMeeting New PeopleUncomfortable Situations Author:Matt Wertz
“Just take ease of interchange between people. Your email is of course faster than letter - on the other hand the transition from sailing ship to telegraphs was far greater than the shift from the postal service to email. That was a fabulous change. If you sent a letter to England, instead of waiting a couple of months for a response you got it instantly. That's a huge change. Every one of these changes of course increases opportunities and also increases means of control and domination.” PeopleIfsMeanHandsCoursesOpportunityWaitingGreaterHugeMonthsCoupleLettersIncreaseEnglandResponseShipsFasterEaseTransitionSailingFabulousEmailDominationTelegraphSailing ShipsInterchangePostal ServiceHuge Changes Author:Noam Chomsky
“I was talking to Cecil [Castellucci], who writes Shade, and I was saying to her, and she was saying the same thing, that I'm not even the same person who wrote the first issue of Doom Patrol, and that was six months ago. I'm a totally different person now, already. It's weird to look back at stuff, but it's an honor that there's a legacy of people who still keep it in their heads. It's really cool!” PeopleWritingFirstsLooksPersonsStillsDifferentStuffTalkingIssuesMonthsHonorSixLegacyShadeSix MonthsDoomReally Cool Author:Gerard Way
“The recent AP poll that came out last month said that approximately 90% of the American people felt that the two-party system was failing us in the presidential election.” PeopleSaidTwoLastsFeltPartyFailingMonthsElectionPresidentialPollsPresidential ElectionTwo Party System Author:Jill Stein
“Many times when people have a vision, they think in terms of a big vision - I want to take my city for Christ. But the problem with many pastors and this type of vision is this: they haven't developed the strategy to fulfill that vision. A pastor preaches a dream or vision to his/her people, they get excited for a week, a month, or a couple of months, but there is no strategy, planning, or process to fulfill that vision.” PeopleThinkingWantProblemDreamBigsProcessTermChristCitiesVisionWeekHavensTypeMonthsCoupleStrategyExcitedPlanningPastor Author:John C. Maxwell
“When you finish reading the book [Today Matters], take the daily dozen and list them in order of how well you do them. For example, the one that I would put at the highest for me is attitude or relationships because I'm really strong at both of those. At the bottom would be health. What I tell people is, "Take one month and work on one of the daily dozen for a whole year." And so it's really a one-year personal growth plan.” PeopleYearsWellsBookMatterWholeWould BeTodayOrderReadingStrongGrowthAttitudePlansExampleMonthsHighestPersonal GrowthBottomListsDozenWhole Year Author:John C. Maxwell
“I honestly haven't seen a lot people since we wrapped, really, but it's one of those things when you don't see someone for three months and then you pick right back up where you left off. I think Twilight is very special circumstance, and a special thing to be a part of, so there's this weird connection to have.” PeopleThinkingThreeLeftSpecialHavensMonthsCircumstancesPicksConnectionsHonestlyTwilightThree MonthsSpecial Things Author:Ashley Greene
“There are photos of Kim Jong-un right up atop the volcano. I actually wrote a letter to him asking if I could speak on camera. I never got an answer. But what was interesting was the people who were responsible for us, our "guards," it took them two days to figure out how I should address him. "President? No, you can't because there's a president for eternity." And it was a time when his status was still in flux. Only a few months later there was this party congress which assigned an official title to him, but that was after we did our film.” PeopleIfsShouldStillsTwoFilmSpeakPresidentAnswersInterestingPartyFiguresMonthsLettersEternityAskingResponsibleCamerasCongressTitlesOfficialsIf I CouldAddressesTwo DaysKimFluxVolcanoes Author:Werner Herzog
“When Donald Trump talks about the rigged, corrupt system, remember, he's standing up for the forgotten man and the forgotten woman. This is not about him. This is about the people. This is about folks who are white-knuckled at the end of each month trying to pay the bills. This is about the people who feel like their pressing their nose against the glass of the rigged system and can't get in, they're just watching everybody else benefit.” PeopleMenFeelsTryingEndsRememberWhitePayMonthsTrumpBenefitsStandingBillsForgottenFolksGlassesNosesRiggedEach Month Author:Kellyanne Conway
“I didn't know how to check other people's feeds. When I started Instagram, it was just me posting! But then at some point, like eight months ago, I realized I could see what other people were sharing. It was so exciting and so fun, but it was like I'd already gotten into the rhythm of sharing and not worrying about what it was like compared to other accounts. I think that was kind of protective, in a way.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayKindFunWorryKnow HowMonthsAccountsExcitingEightI RealizedChecksRhythmProtectiveInstagramNot Worrying Author:Bryce Dallas Howard
“It's not a matter of how much you know or can define, or how many millions of mantras or thousands of prostrations you have done, or how many months of wangs you've attended. The important thing is whether or not the mind is really changing, whether our negative emotions are really coming under control, whether we are really beginning to understand ourselves, whether our mind is really improving, and whether in our hearts there is genuine love and caring for other people.” PeopleKnowsMindHeartImportantMatterDoneEmotionMillionsMonthsNegativeImportant ThingsCaringGenuineImprovingMantrasCaring For OthersNegative EmotionsGenuine LoveProstration Author:Tenzin Palmo
“Here in Havana where families make about $20 a month, fewer than 5 percent have Internet in their homes, they are prepared. But it's hard to predict how sweeping this change will be, if the people of Cuba are even ready for it.” PeopleIfsHardHomeReadyMonthsInternetPercentPreparedFewerCubaSweepingHavana Author:David Muir
“[People] have seen the credit market seize up. They're worried about money market funds, although the latest proposition from government should take care of that. They've seen eight percent of the bank deposits in the United States get moved very skillfully, I might say, within the last couple of weeks from institutions that they thought were fine a few months ago to other institutions. They are not wrong to be worried.” PeopleShouldStatesGovernmentMightCareLastsUnitedUnited StatesWeekFineMonthsCouplePercentInstitutionsMovedEightCreditTake CareWorriedFundPropositionsDeposits Author:Warren Buffett
“I don't want to hold out false hopes that the - by some magic moment, that things will turn around in a couple months because they wouldn't, Charlie. I mean, and it's a big mistake to try and mislead people.” PeopleWantTryingMeanMomentsBigsTurnsMistakeMagicMonthsCoupleCharlieMisleadBig MistakeFalse HopeMagic Moments Author:Warren Buffett
“To be honest, I didn't think I would be here for this album [Give the People What They Want]. I thought I was going to die. When the doctor came in by himself and told me I had cancer, it was frightening. He told me he got it and there would be six months of chemo. I really thought people would be promoting my record without me here to enjoy it. But I'm here.” PeopleThinkingWantGivingWould BeDiesEnjoyRecordsHonestMonthsSixDoctorsCancerAlbumsBeing HonestFrighteningSix MonthsPromoting Author:Sharon Jones
“How are these people deserving huge payouts for losing weight when they should have done it without the camera or without a team helping them? Then, six months later you go back and find out where they are, and they're in a worse state than they were in before they joined the f - ing show. Then they blame the producer.” PeopleShouldStatesDoneHelpingShowsTeamHugeMonthsSixLosingShould HaveWeightCamerasBlameProducersSix MonthsDeserving Author:Gordon Ramsay
“It's going to sound like the easy answer, but I love them both. I do! I really don't prefer one over the other. With movies, you really dive into a character for two to three months, but then it's gone. With a TV series, you have a constant location you're living in, and you're always working on the same character along with people who are like your own family. I'm lucky to have done both.” PeopleTwoDoneCharacterThreeEasySoundAnswersGoneTvsLike YouMonthsLuckyConstantSeriesLocationThree MonthsTv SeriesAlways WorkingEasy Answers Author:Laura Vandervoort
“Permafrost in the soil [is melting], in the boreal and arctic areas in the world, and, probably even more alarming in the last six or eight months, the data on what is happening to the ice shelves in Greenland and the west Antarctic has begun to cause people to radically reassess the earlier conviction that those ice shelves were stable on a kind of century-long time scale.” PeopleWorldKindLongLastsCausesCenturyMonthsSixLong TimeHappeningsAreasWestConvictionEightScalesIceDataSoilStableShelvesMeltingArcticGreenland Author:Bill McKibben
“If you were disabled in Russia, you had to re-register every year, and it took up to six months to re-register, so people who lost limbs in Afghanistan had to prove that their leg hadn't grown back.” PeopleIfsYearsLostMonthsProveSixLegsRussiaAfghanistanSix MonthsLimbsDisabledRegister Author:Duncan Green
“Now, of course, people know that over the last several months prior to February 21st, 1965, the OAAU and MMI tried to get away from the old practices of checking people at the door for weapons. They wanted people to feel more comfortable.” PeopleKnowsFeelsWantedLastsCoursesPracticeDoorsMonthsComfortableWeaponsGet AwayFebruary Author:Manning Marable
“They [the Travelers] know everything about the year that they're coming into. But you can know everything and still be tripped up by the little stuff that you didn't notice. And one character's Facebook page is made up of lies. It's an interesting comment on what's been going on the last few months. We cannot rely anymore on Facebook or Twitter or Instagram. People are making up their own truths.” PeopleKnowsYearsLittlesMadeStillsCharacterLastsLyingStuffInterestingMonthsPagesRelyCommentTravelerInstagramMaking UpFacebook Page Author:Eric McCormack
“The young and dynamic and idealistic people in the square do not have the chance to organise themselves politically, to be able to follow through their dreams in six months time, to play an effective role in the future.” PeoplePlayDreamAbleYoungChanceRolesMonthsSixSquaresSix MonthsIdealisticFollow Through Author:Kofi Annan
“Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does. Having tried this for several months, however, I can report from the trenches that, for me, immersive listening is as intellectually challenging, stimulating, and rewarding as immersive reading.” PeopleWayDoeI CanReadingLiteratureChallengesListeningMonthsReportsLiteracyTrenches Author:Tom Peters
“I took the name originally as a kind of disguise because I didn't want people to know I was about to embark on a s****y musical career that would last five months. And a lot of people took funny names back then.” PeopleKnowsWantKindLastsNamesCareersFiveMonthsMusicalDisguiseFunny Name Author:John Wesley Harding