“I don't worry too much about what people think about my image, but I think I am pretty polite. My colleagues say I am a gentleman in my dealings with them, even when I disagree. I am difficult because I won't back off on things like the pay raise and the anti-terrorism bill. I'm not a go-along kind of guy. I do respect the institution. I do respect my colleagues. But I didn't go to Washington to make friends. That's not where my friends are.” PeopleThinkingKindGuyDifficultPayWorryToo MuchMy FriendsRaisesInstitutionsBillsTerrorismGentlemanDisagreeColleaguesPoliteDealingsI Am PrettyAnti Terrorism Author:Russ Feingold
“It's interesting, a lot of my friends and family thought that was the moment I kind of showed everyone my humor; the silly side of me that friends and family know, so that could be what people were responding to. I have a big sense of humor, and people who know me know that silly side of me, so moving forward, I think it gives me the freedom and confidence to do more of that.” PeopleThinkingKnowsGivingKindMomentsBigsMovingSidesInterestingMy FriendsGive MeSillyMoving ForwardSense Of HumorKnow MeFamily And FriendsResponding Author:Aaron Tveit
“I was once in a bar with a friend of mine, we were having a drink and a bunch of people walked in and they were talking about how, "It's official, there's going to be a 'Friends' reunion," and I'm sitting there with my friend going, "No, no, there's not."” PeopleTalkingMinesDrinkSittingMy FriendsBarsBunchOfficialsReunion Author:Marta Kauffman
“What I do is I take action because I value the position I have, the career I have, the life I live, the people I interact with, my fanbase, my friends, however you want to say that. I value those relationships and I use the opportunities they present to me.” PeopleWantUseActionValuesOpportunityCareersPositionMy Friends Author:Mike Vallely
“I just simply believe in having purposeful relations, period. That's what its about at the end of the day. However, I do appreciate people that are individualistic, mainly because I'm an impressionable soul and my friends become my big sisters and brothers in a way.” PeopleWayBelieveSoulEndsBigsBrotherPeriodsMy FriendsAppreciateRelationThe End Of The DayBrothers And SistersIndividualisticBig SisterImpressionableAppreciate People Author:Aeriel Miranda
“I wanted to give people a glimpse of my lifestyle and into the lifestyle of me and all my friends and all the people that I know. It's basically just coming up and going up. It's about growing up, elevating, chilling and vibing. And smoking. I wanted to make a piece of art that you could put on while you are hot boxing your car and riding around with your friends.” PeopleKnowsGivingArtWantedGrowing UpPiecesGrowingCarMy FriendsHotLifestyleBoxingSmokingRidingGlimpseChillElevating Author:Young De
“[My friend and I] decided, we'll go to Corsicana, and we'll see what the people in Corsicana say. ... We just started meeting people and talking to them, and the more I heard the stories, the more red flags kept popping up. There was this disconnect between this person [Todd Willingham] that I'm reading in the court records, the prosecutor's statements, and this person that I'm learning about.” PeoplePersonsStoriesReadingTalkingRecordsHeardMy FriendsRedDecidedCourtMeetingsStatementsFlagsProsecutorPoppingRed Flags Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“So many people, my friends and family, were all saying, "You're so funny. Why don't you become a comedian or an actor?" But it wasn't a reality at the time, it wasn't a road that Latin people were accepted in.” PeopleRealityActorsMy FriendsAcceptedComedianLatinFamily And Friends Author:John Leguizamo
“I live to play music, and hang out with my wife and kid, and hang out with my friends, and discover the world. Read books, watch movies, see art, see the world, meet new people.” PeopleWorldArtBookPlayKidsWatchesWifeMy FriendsMy WifeHanging OutWatch MovieMeeting New PeopleMy Wife And Kids Author:Mark Hoppus
“I was on the set of the first Powers pilot, and an actor of color came up to me and said, "When I was a kid, my friends wouldn't let me play Batman or Superman, because I wasn't their color. But they would let me play Spider-Man. And that's the difference." And I realized I had heard this story a hundred times from different people, but I wasn't there in my head yet.” PeopleMenFirstsSaidDifferentPlayStoriesKidsActorsDifferencesHeardColorHundredMy FriendsLet MeI RealizedPilotsSpidersDifferent PeoplesSpider Man Author:Brian Michael Bendis
“As my friend said that when people say the church is full of hypocrites, he says we always have room for more.” PeopleSaidChurchRoomsMy FriendsHypocrite Author:Shane Claiborne
“A lot of my inspiration comes from the movies and TV, watching other people doing things that I one day hope to have the opportunity to do. The other sides would be my friends and family, people who have supported me and always been there for me. I want to do a good job for them and show them they were right for believing in me.” PeopleWantBelieveShowsInspirationWould BeJobsOpportunitySidesTvsOne DayMy FriendsFamily And FriendsGood Job Author:Robbie Amell
“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
“My friend asked me recently, "Do you find it weird that you are now the property of other people's imaginations?" I hadn't thought about that before, this passionate following, with fan fiction and artwork. At first it felt like an invasion of privacy, but then I realized it's nice that the character can be shared.” PeopleFirstsCharacterFeltImaginationFictionNiceFansMy FriendsPropertyPassionateFollowingI RealizedPrivacyInvasionArtworkInvasion Of Privacy Author:Alycia Debnam Carey
“One of the things I used to dream of is that if I could just be funny like Red Skelton, if I could be a comedian like Red Skelton - that's what I watched on TV - then maybe I would have friends. I just remember that if I told stories to my friends, they listened. And in my family, with nine people talking at the same time, it's really hard to get people to listen to you. We were all craving attention.” PeopleIfsHardStoriesDreamRememberUsedAttentionTalkingTvsMy FriendsRedMy FamilyNineComedianIf I CouldCravingPeople Talking Author:Sandra Cisneros
“Lots of things inspire me. My friends and my family, obviously. I really like to travel, so very inspired by traveling and meeting new people along the way. Also, music and the arts, like film and television. I like to read a lot too; that stuff inspires me.” PeopleWayArtFilmStuffTelevisionInspireMy FriendsMy FamilyMeetingsInspiredMeeting New PeopleFilm And TelevisionVery Inspired Author:Jessica McNamee
“I didn't know that you could race your bike until after college. I didn't know anything about cycling except that I rode my bike from class to class or to my friend's house. But here I am an athlete, I ran, I played soccer, I swam and people are riding their bikes and racing them? I had never seen a bike race.” PeopleKnowsHouseRaceClassCollegeMy FriendsAthleteSoccerRanRacingRidingBikeCyclingHere I Am Author:Kristin Armstrong
“I'm inspired by many of my friends, colleagues, and the extraordinary people I've been fortunate enough to meet along the way.” PeopleWayEnoughMy FriendsExtraordinaryInspiredFortunateColleaguesOrdinary People Author:Alicia Keys
“I just started asking my friends if they had noticed. None of them - feminists, mothers, daughters - noticed until I pointed it out. Then I decided to bring it up within the industry. I knew a lot of people, so I'd say, "Have you ever noticed how few female characters there are in kids movies?" when I met a director, a producer, whatever. And they said, "Oh, but that's not true anymore."” PeopleIfsSaidCharacterKidsMotherIndustryMetsDirectorsDaughterMy FriendsFemaleDecidedAskingFeministProducersThey SaidFemale CharactersMother DaughterKids Movie Author:Geena Davis
“My friends know that I have a silly sense of humour and I can be a little vulgar at times - but just with people that I am close to.” PeopleKnowsLittlesI CanHumourMy FriendsSillyVulgar Author:Carmen Electra
“One of the fashion things I ever did was for Helmut Lang for Visionaire magazine and I used people from all genders. People from the age of 18 - like James King - to people like my friend Sharon [Stone] who's about 50 or older. People of all different shapes and literally all different genders and my boyfriend at the time and his daughter who was 11.” PeopleDifferentAgeUsedFashionKingsShapesDaughterMy FriendsStonesGenderMagazinesMy BoyfriendOlder PeopleSharon Author:Nan Goldin
“I try not to put anything political on the forefront of what I'm trying to do creatively. At the same time, I do think it's wonderful when I hear people say that it's inspirational that I'm an Indian woman on camera. My life is very diverse, and my friends are a diverse group of people.” PeopleThinkingTryingPoliticalLife IsWonderfulGroupsMy FriendsCamerasIndianDiverse Author:Mindy Kaling
“So many of my friends are older, and the people I work with are older. I guess I've gotten used to hearing people say, "Oh, you're so young," even though I never really agreed with that. Now I get their perspective.” PeopleYoungUsedPerspectiveMy FriendsHearing Author:Margot Robbie
“I hate when any rapper would just use "Rapper X" because "Rapper X" is hot at the time and put them on the record. That's not how I do my thing. I work with my friends and people I consider fam.” PeopleUseHateRecordsMy FriendsI HateHotRapper Author:Donnis
“I think modeling is interesting, it's obviously nice to take on a character and go through the process. I'm very lucky that I've been able to do that but I think the challenges that come with the responsibility of art directing something is something that appeals to me. I've done it before in collaboration with other people but it's the first time someone's literally handed it over and been like, "What do you want?" It was really fun to kind of dream up a concept and then execute it with all my friends.” PeopleThinkingWantFirstsKindArtDoneCharacterDreamAbleFunProcessChallengesInterestingResponsibilityNiceLuckyConceptsMy FriendsFirst TimeAppealsCollaborationModeling Author:Alexa Chung
“In early 1999, I was watching TV, when I came across a story on Afghanistan. It was a story about the Taliban and the restrictions they were imposing on the Afghan people, most notably women. At some point in the story, there was a casual reference to them having banned the game of kite fighting. This detail struck a personal chord with me, as I had grown up in Kabul flying kite with my friends.” PeopleStoriesFightingGamesTvsMy FriendsDetailsFlyingAfghanistanChordsRestrictionCasualTalibanImposingBannedKitesAfghanWatching TvKabul Author:Khaled Hosseini
“I think that people all grow up and have their same personalities, but you can say, "Oh, I can see the roots of this personality, which I didn't like, but then you grew up, and I can still see you as that person, but I do really like you now." Which is sort of how I feel about children - I mean, about children who I knew when I was a child and grew up with, and they're still my friends, and children that I know as children who I see growing up, and every year I like them more.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsYearsMeanChildrenPersonsStillsI CanGrowsGrowing UpGrowingLike YouGrewPersonalityGrew UpMy FriendsRootsReally Like You Author:Ann Patchett
“I've written a book that hopefully will give people a sense of what [presidency] was like. I hope my friends read it and say, "Now I understand." I hope my detractors read it and say, "Well, I better understand."” PeopleGivingWellsBookWrittenMy FriendsHopefullyPresidency Author:George W. Bush
“I love baking, it's the most calming thing for me. It's therapeutic, it makes the house smell good, and I get to take the goods to my friends. I do it for other people.” PeopleHouseMy FriendsSmellGoodsBakingTherapeuticCalming Author:Lily Collins
“I certainly think one of the really amazing things about Mr. Trump's victory is there's been an immediate - what one of my friends calls a jump-to-the-Trump in Australia. So you've got politicians of all sides looking at this amazing result in America and thinking, I'd like a bit of that. Can I have a bit of that? And so the opposition leader has been talking about immigrants stealing people's jobs. The prime minister has started talking about media elites in exactly the same terms as President-elect Trump.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensJobsAmericaBitsSidesPresidentTermResultsTalkingLeaderMediaTrumpVictoryPoliticianLaughterMy FriendsStealingMinistersOppositionAustraliaImmigrantsPrimeElitesPrime MinisterAmazing ThingsReally Amazing Author:Richard Glover
“In college, all my friends were graffiti writers, but I never wrote graffiti. I wanted to participate and do something cool on the street, so I'd make these portraits of people. I'd isolate them on a white wall, make a silkscreen of it, and do these portraits in bathrooms and all around. That's how I started the Polaroids.” PeopleWantedWhiteStreetsCollegeWallMy FriendsPortraitsBathroomGraffitiPolaroidsWhite Walls Author:Ryan McGinley
“That I walk around calling people 'dummy' and 'hockey puck'. I do have a different life apart from being sarcastic on stage. I might kibitz around with my friends, but I'm nothing like the person who does stand up. Nothing like that.” PeoplePersonsDoeDifferentMightWalksStageCallingMy FriendsSarcasticHockeyPuckDifferent LifeDummyBeing Sarcastic Author:Don Rickles
“Me and my friends would drive for eight hours to play for twenty people. That was cool, and if a couple of people bought t-shirts, that would be the greatest thing. We could go eat some hamburgers that night.” PeopleIfsPlayWould BeNightHoursCoupleMy FriendsTwentiesEightShirtsT ShirtHamburgers Author:Girl Talk
“I rang my friend Jim Wolfensohn, who was then running a private commercial bank in New York. I said, "Come up to Vancouver", and he did. I put my proposition to him. He said, "I think it could work." I said, "Will you help us?" He said, "Yes." So, I set aside senior people in our treasury and they worked with Wolfensohn and the investment sanctions were applied. And that's what brought the regime down. The last South African Finance Minister, Barend du Plessis, went on record as saying that it was the investment sanctions that put the final nail in the coffin of apartheid.” PeopleThinkingSaidHelpingRunningLastsRecordsNew YorkMy FriendsInvestmentSouthFinalsCome UpFinanceMinistersRegimesSouth AfricaNailsSeniorPropositionsSanctionsApartheidCoffinsTreasuryVancouverCommercial Banks Author:Bob Hawke
“I reached the point in my life now that I understand as human beings we've all done some very horrible things to other human beings, and at some point, I came to grips with the fact that whoever murdered my friend is now an adult, and all I can truly hopefully pray for is that in murdering my friend it bettered their life. And I don't mean that they gained things, but just that they grew up, they regret their decision, they found a place of spirituality or God or whatever people call it.” PeopleHumansMeanI CanDoneFactsSpiritualityFoundHuman BeingsDecisionRegretGrewPrayingGrew UpMy FriendsAdultsHorribleHopefullyHorrible Things Author:Killer Mike
“Certainly, my friends and the common narrative is people are trying to shore up their own lives with regards to family planning and reproduction.” PeopleTryingCommonMy FriendsRegardPlanningNarrativeShoreReproductionFamily Planning Author:Willie Parker
“My idea of happiness is effortless happiness. The things that ground you. For me it's art and cooking, for example, and when I can be with my friends and the people I love and do simple things. That's when I'm the happiest.” PeopleArtI CanIdeasSimpleExampleMy FriendsCookingSimple ThingsEffortless Author:Gigi Hadid
“My mom and I have always been very close since she did raise me as like a single mom. My friends and everyone I know are like, 'Wow, you guys really have a really good relationship.' She's with me a lot of the time, so people find that kind of shocking.” PeopleKnowsKindGuyMomMy FriendsRaisesMy MomWowShockingSingle MomGood Relationship Author:Tiffany Trump
“Music has always helped me stay creative and grounded because I'm traveling and shooting and trying to understand other people. Music was something I could just sit in a room and make with my friends.” PeopleTryingRoomsCreativeMy FriendsShootingGrounded Author:Zoe Kravitz
“I think my magical dream land would have all of my friends from high school and elementary school. I'm extremely nostalgic so my closest friends are people from my childhood.” PeopleThinkingDreamSchoolLandChildhoodHigh SchoolMy FriendsClosestNostalgicElementary SchoolClosest Friends Author:Tyra Banks
“My friends from the University of Texas. I've had the same friends for over a decade. My brother films a lot; he usually edits my Workout Wednesdays. All the people who work on my projects are amazing.” PeopleFilmBrotherProjectsMy FriendsUniversityDecadesMy BrotherTexasWorkoutEditsWednesdayUniversity Of Texas Author:Zach Anner
“I was the kind of person that was very social and liked to be with an entourage and have lots of parties and have people around me. And now I find I am much more satisfied seeing people one-on-one. I avoid crowds, and I get really plagued by people as if they are bees or something. I am talking about my friends. I can only handle them one at a time.” PeopleIfsKindPersonsI CanSocialPartyTalkingSeeingMy FriendsCrowdsHandleSatisfiedBeesGet RealOne On OneEntourage Author:Sandra Cisneros
“I must say what I admire most is the person who masters an area of practical experience, and can teach me something. I mean, my local midwife has taught me how to keep bees. Well, she can't understand anything I write. And I find myself liking her, may I say, more than most poets. And among my friends I find people who know all about boats or know all about certain sports, or how to cut somebody open and remove an organ. I'm fascinated by this mastery of the practical.” PeopleKnowsWritingWellsMayMeanPersonsCertainSportsTeachCuttingTaughtPoetMastersMy FriendsAreasPracticalsLocalsAdmireBoatRemoveFascinatedMasteryOrgansBeesMidwifePractical Experience Author:Sylvia Plath
“Like Summer Sisters comforted me just because I was like, okay things I've seen with my own eyes are not so terrible, and even though I knew adult gay people and had absolutely no issue with it. And I just couldn't articulate what made me so uncomfortable about the space that I shared with my friends becoming a sexual space. And it was very healing for me to read that, and feel like it was a part of other friendships, even fictional friendships I admire.” PeopleFeelsMadeEyeMy OwnSpaceHealingIssuesBecomingTerribleGaySummerMy FriendsAdultsOkayAdmireUncomfortableGay People Author:Lena Dunham
“I'd have to say the best part of being successful is being able to take care of my mom so she never has to worry about anything again and also being able to put my friends and people I care about in positions to win.” PeopleCareAbleWinningWorrySuccessfulPositionMomMy FriendsMy MomTake CareBeing SuccessfulI Care Author:G-Eazy
“I had played some festivals with people and met and been around some good people, for sure. But what I say to my friends and students, anything like that with a grant or a competition, it involves a great deal of luck.” PeopleDealsStudentsMetsMy FriendsLuckCompetitionGrantsGood PeopleFestivals Author:Jon Gordon
“I felt it was more fun to knock people down than to build them up. I seemed to get a better reaction from my peers and from my friends when I was mocking stuff - which isn't necessarily anything to be too proud of.” PeopleFunFeltStuffProudMy FriendsReactionsPeers Author:Barry Blitt
“I am one of those sort of "lesser" types, those sensitive types, those people who wouldn't have made it on their own if other people hadn't helped them. A straightforward capitalist society would've cut them off and let them die. So I was saved by my friends and by my family and by people who cared about me, and by modern psychotherapy that cared about women.” PeopleIfsMadeDiesCuttingModernTypeMy FriendsMy FamilySavedMade ItSensitiveCapitalistStraightforwardPsychotherapy Author:Dar Williams
“I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.” PeopleFunnyArtistDrinkDrugMy FriendsBoringSmokeFunny ThingsDrank Author:Karl Lagerfeld
“A lot of people are crazy, cruel and negative. They got a little too much time on their hands to discuss everybody else. I have a limited amount of energy to blow in a day. I'd rather read something that I like or watch a program I enjoy or ride my damn motorcycle or throw back a couple of shots of tequila with my friends.” PeopleLittlesHandsEnergyEnjoyWatchesToo MuchCrazyAmountCoupleShotsMy FriendsNegativeProgramBlowDamnMotorcycleTequilaShots Of Tequila Author:Queen Latifah