“Many people I know - writers, poets - they have all been sentenced not once but sometimes three times after they come out. They serve five or six years, come out another time, and then nine years. Come out again, 12 years. Only because they have a different opinion. They are innocent people, they have beautiful minds, beautiful hearts.” PeopleKnowsYearsMindHeartDifferentSometimesBeautifulThreeOpinionFivePoetSixNineInnocentThree TimesNine YearsAnother TimeBeautiful HeartDifferent OpinionsBeautiful Mind Author:Ai Weiwei
“People are seeing me as the guy who wants to get hurt, who wants to break a bone, get bruises. And that's how it was growing up with six brothers. I got beat up, and I beat up people.” PeopleWantGuyHurtBreakGrowing UpGrowingSeeingBrotherSixBeatsBonesBruises Author:Kellan Lutz
“I would very honestly just tell you that what I tried to do was simply respond to inquiries from people as they came in. Where I've thought I could say something useful, I've tried to add a voice that was, frankly, a dissident voice earlier on, but one that I think has become a more mainstream voice-and not because I've shifted. I think that the critique I had of what was going on in our financial system from six, eight years ago-after seeing some of what we've suffered through and even since the cataclysm itself-in terms of the structural changes.” PeopleThinkingYearsVoiceTermSeeingSixYears AgoAddFinancialEightHonestlyMainstreamInquiryCritiqueDissidentsFinancial System Author:Eliot Spitzer
“There is so much investment in it of people's labor time that it will never make money. But there are other documentaries that you might make that are sort of on assignment for television that turn around in three to six months. Then the margin can be much be better for you because you're not spending three-and-a-half years on it. So I think if you're doing documentary films, that's sort of the way to look at it.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayYearsLooksMightFilmTurnsThreeHalfTelevisionMonthsSixLaborInvestmentSpendingMaking MoneyDocumentariesSix MonthsMarginsAssignmentsHalf A YearDocumentary Films Author:Liz Garbus
“Seventy-six percent of the American people say we have a spiritual problem in our country. That's great, because now they understand the root of the problem is not that we haven't passed enough laws; rather, the root of the problem is in terms of our social value system.” PeopleCountryEnoughProblemSpiritualLawValuesSocialTermHavensSixPercentRootsOur CountrySeventiesValue SystemsSocial Values Author:Charles Colson
“We are a feelingless people. If we could really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all the suffering. If we could feel that one person every six seconds dies of starvation ... we would stop it. ... If we could really feel it in the bowels, the groin, in the throat, in the breast, we would go into the streets and stop the war, stop slavery, stop the prisons, stop the killing, stop destruction.” PeopleIfsFeelsPersonsWarWould BePainSufferingDiesStreetsSixDestructionSlaveryPrisonKillingBreastsThroatSecondsStarvationThat One PersonBowels Author:Julian Beck
“I write pretty fast, probably faster than most people. But I might think about something for six hours, then write it in 20 minutes. So did I write for six hours and 20 minutes, or just 20 minutes? I used to write absolutely every day, except for days when I had to travel or something.” PeopleThinkingWritingMightUsedHoursMinutesSixFaster Author:Chuck Klosterman
“People, you have six senses! The last one is common! Use it!” PeopleUseLastsCommonSixSenses Author:Michael Ruhlman
“No doubt you are as alarmed as I by the tragic decline in America's language skills. If 10 people read the following sentence: Two tanker trucks has just overturned in Alaska, spilling a totel of 10,000 gallons of beer onto a highway. two would find an error in subject-verb agreement, two would find an error in spelling, and six would find a sponge and drive north.” PeopleIfsTwoAmericaLanguageDoubtSubjectsSkillsSixErrorsFollowingSentencesBeerNo DoubtTragicAgreementDeclineHighwaysTruckAlaskaVerbsSpellingSpongesGallonsSpillingLanguage Skills Author:Mike Nichols
“I think having six people all with different energies and different perceptions all working around a script is quite profound. It’s not about, oh that’s what you should be doing.” PeopleThinkingShouldDifferentEnergySixPerceptionProfoundScriptsDifferent Perceptions Author:Jihan El-Tahri
“Eating a piece of meat, at its most efficient, we could say is like throwing away six times that amount of food every time you eat it because you're recycling all those calories through it. I know a lot of people who came to this issue not through animal welfare but through wastefulness.” PeopleKnowsAnimalIssuesPiecesAmountSixEatingWelfareMeatThrowingEfficientCaloriesAnimal WelfareRecyclingThrowing AwayWastefulness Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“I've done documentaries and TV for six years but this was my first feature as director, so there were moments when I'd look around and was excited... but, of course, it was also very challenging on a day-to-day basis. And, of course, now that it's coming out people want to talk mostly to the actors.” PeopleWantYearsFirstsLooksDoneMomentsCoursesActorsChallengesTvsDirectorsSixBasesExcitedFeaturesComing OutDay To DayDocumentaries Author:Robert B. Weide
“The science about life is very optimistic. Every second, four people in the world die, and six are born. This is optimistic.” PeopleWorldLife IsDiesBornFourSixOptimisticEvery Second Author:Christian Boltanski
“Money.. Its nothing really worth squabbling about. I mean, this is what puts people six feet under!” PeopleMeanFeetSixSix Feet Under Author:Burt Shavitz
“If you think that what you're doing is not all that important in the larger scheme of things and that you're just an insignificant creature in the whole wide world, which is full of six billion people, and that people are born and die every day and it makes no difference to future generations what you write, and that writing and reading are increasingly irrelevant activities, you'd probably never get out of bed.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWritingImportantWholeDiesReadingBornDifferencesGenerationsActivityBedCreaturesSixWideBillionsSchemesIrrelevantInsignificantFuture GenerationWriting And Reading Author:Pankaj Mishra
“I was age six or seven, and singing, "Jesus wants me for her son, beep, to shine for him," and people smiled and pinched my cheeks till the blood vessels broke, and I knew I was doing something right.” PeopleWantAgeJesusBloodSonSixSingingShiningSevenBrokeWant MeCheeksVesselBlood Vessels Author:Al Jarreau
“It doesn't bother me. Sure, everybody wants approval, but I came from the theatre and I've always treasured a remark from there which goes: 'For every six people who love you, there will be half a dozen who loathe you.' The quality of an author's work is not usually determined until after his death. Even Dickens got some pretty bad reviews.” PeopleWantHalfQualityLove YouSixDeterminedTheatreBotherReviewsDozenApprovalRemarksLoatheDickensTreasuredBad Reviews Author:Robert Ludlum
“I firmly believe that every six years, a person goes through a serious change. Think about it: At 6, you start school. At about 12, you start hitting puberty. And then it goes on. You start hitting these different mental levels, and people change. I think that's part of the reason the divorce rate is so high.” PeopleThinkingYearsBelievePersonsDifferentReasonSchoolChangeLevelsSeriousGoes OnSixRateDivorceMentalityHittingAgeingPubertyDivorce Rates Author:Randy Houser
“I'll go to do a shoot, I'll spend five or six hours at the beach with people, and when people think I'm all out of film, then they really relax and I get my good pictures.” PeopleThinkingFilmHoursFiveSixBeachRelax Author:Jock Sturges
“When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I thought that God wrote books. I thought a book was a manifestation of nature, like a tree.” PeopleLittlesBookFactsFiveTreeSixManifestation Author:Fran Lebowitz
“When people watch me on TV they see part of my life. I wanted to let them know the real me behind the scenes. The child who was a concert violinist from the age of six. The young woman who took on the challenge to compete in the Miss America pageant. The television journalist for twenty-five years. The mother of two who, just like most women, struggles to balance work and family.” PeopleKnowsYearsChildrenTwoRealAgeWantedAmericaYoungMotherChallengesBehindsWatchesStruggleFiveMissingTelevisionTvsBalanceSceneSixTwentiesJournalistFive YearsConcertsYoung WomenTwenty FiveBehind The ScenesWatch MePageantViolinistReal MeMiss America Author:Gretchen Carlson
“The happiest people I know are the ones that are still working. The saddest are the ones who are retired. Very few performers retire on their own. It's usually because no one wants them. Six years ago Sinatra announced his retirement. He's still working.” PeopleKnowsWantYearsStillsSixYears AgoRetirementPerformersRetiringRetiredSaddest Author:George Burns
“There are nascent stirrings in the neighborhood and in the field, articulated by non-celebrated people who bespeak the dreams of their fellows. It may be catching. Unfortunately, it is not covered on the six o'clock news.” PeopleMayDreamFieldsSixNewsFellowsClockNeighborhoodCoveredCatchingStirring Book:American Dreams: Lost and Found Source: American Dreams: Lost and Found
“I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or just been one. I certainly liked entertaining people and making jokes, but I don't know necessarily if that's what your child is prone to that you should necessarily put them in a real working industry at six years old.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsShouldYearsWellsChildrenRealDoneStreetsBabyIndustrySixJokesOur ChildrenYour ChildrenEntertainingCircusGypsySix Year Olds Author:Natasha Lyonne
“How seriously can I take myself? I'm just one of six billion people, right?” PeopleSixBillionsJust One Author:Kelly Corrigan
“I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and everyone else on this planet. The President of the United States, a gondolier in Venice, just fill in the names. I find it extremely comforting that we're so close. I also find it like Chinese water torture, that we're so close because you have to find the right six people to make the right connection... I am bound, you are bound, to everyone on this planet by a trail of six people.” PeopleStatesNamesPresidentWaterUnitedUnited StatesPlanetsDegreesSixConnectionsBoundsSeparationChineseTortureTrailsComfortingVeniceSix Degrees Of Separation Author:John Guare
“It wouldn't have existed without France, and it's a French initiative. As a filmmaker, I owe everything to France - I got accepted at a French film school that takes six directors a year. Once you're in, you make films under the eye of people in the industry. You grow up in front of their eyes.” PeopleYearsEyeSchoolFilmGrowsGrowing UpFrontsIndustryDirectorsSixAcceptedFranceFilmmakerInitiativeFilm School Author:Deniz Gamze Erguven
“People say like, "I don't know how you do it. You must get no sleep." I actually do get the right amount of sleep every night. That's my rule. But if I'm writing until six in the morning I sleep until two in the afternoon and it's the only thing that keeps me healthy and sane.” PeopleIfsKnowsWritingTwoNightSleepMorningKnow HowAmountHealthySixAfternoonSaneEvery NightNo Sleep Author:Julie Plec
“Imagine you have six loans, small to huge. People want to close loans and because of that, they try to pay off the small loans, but that's not the right strategy. The right strategy, of course, is to pay the loan with the highest interest rate. People make this mistake and it costs them lots and lots of money, it's a very expensive mistake because interest rates accumulate and become very, very expensive very quickly.” PeopleWantTryingCoursesInterestPayMistakeImagineHugeCostSixHighestStrategyRateExpensiveLots Of MoneyLoanInterest Rate Author:Dan Ariely
“There is very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria was a drought that lasted for about five or six years, which meant that huge numbers of people in the end had to leave the land.” PeopleYearsEndsReasonNumbersFiveLandHugeHorrorSixMajorsEvidenceVery GoodSyriaDroughtHuge Numbers Author:Prince Charles
“I had visited New York at age 12, and I loved the big buildings and the swarms of people. At 23, I decided to try it. I was going to go for six months, and I ended up living there for 18 years before I moved to California, so I am living the American Dream.” PeopleTryingYearsDreamBigsAgeNew YorkBuildingMonthsSixDecidedMovedCaliforniaAmerican DreamSix MonthsSwarmsLiving The American Dream Author:Ari Marcopoulos
“I think people are sick of trends changing every six months - not because we're tired of them, but just for the sake of change. There is so much junk in the world: junk TV, junk movies, all those junk magazines with the same people on the cover.” PeopleThinkingWorldTvsMonthsSixSickTiredSakeMagazinesTrendsSix MonthsJunk Author:Tom Ford
“The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.” PeopleHas BeensSixImpactFulfillingSexist Author:Zig Ziglar
“We are using new technologies in meaningful ways. To build our new refinery in 60 percent of the time it took to build our first, we are training 20,000 people in a new generation of welding technology in six months.” PeopleWayFirstsTechnologyGenerationsMonthsSixTrainingPercentMeaningfulSix MonthsNew TechnologyNew GenerationRefineryWelding Author:Mukesh Ambani
“I think a lot of people were under the impression that property development was a way of becoming a millionaire in six months, while doing nothing, and I don't think that's the case. And I'm not sure it ever has been, really.” PeopleThinkingWayHas BeensCasesMonthsDevelopmentBecomingSixPropertyImpressionNot SureSix MonthsDoing NothingMillionaire Author:Sarah Beeny
“What in the world had Grover Cleveland done? Will you tell me? You give it up? I have been looking for six weeks for a Democrat who could tell me what Cleveland has done for the good of his country and for the benefit of the people, but I have not found him.... He says himself...that two-thirds of his time has been uselessly spent with Democrats who want office.... Now he has been so occupied in that way that he has not done anything else.” PeopleWorldWayWantGivingHas BeensTwoCountryDoneFoundWeekOfficeSixBenefitsThirdsDemocratClevelandGrover Author:William McKinley
“I'm in fact a hair under six feet, but I'm very svelte. People would never see me if I turned sideways.” PeopleIfsFactsFeetHairSixSideways Author:Mo Rocca
“People always tell me I need to have a kid, and I say, No, I don't. Because I wouldn't have just one kid; I'd have six. I need a huge family. So I just kind of fill my house with tons of rejects and misfits so it feels like I have a bunch of children.” PeopleNeedsFeelsKindChildrenKidsHouseHugeSixBunchJust OneRejectsMisfits Author:Chelsea Handler
“It's a challenge, for sure. My family is not seeing me at all, for probably the next six months, and they haven't seen me for the last year. I'm really blessed with a lot of great partners, including my writing staff. Being able to rely on the people around me has really helped out.” PeopleWritingYearsAbleLastsNextChallengesSeeingHavensMonthsSixMy FamilyBlessedIncludingPartnersRelyLast YearStaffSix Months Author:Veena Sud
“When culture is created in boardrooms with a panel of six or seven strategists for the masses to follow, to me that is no different than an aristocracy. It's not created from the people in the middle of the streets, so to speak. It is created from a petri dish for the sake of making money, and it is undermining the longevity of the culture.” PeopleDifferentCultureSpeakStreetsMiddleSixMassSevenSakeMaking MoneyDishesLongevityAristocracyStrategistUndermining Author:Chuck D
“There's a one in six billion chance you're gonna find your soul mate. But, maybe, your perfect soul mate is actually three or four half perfect people. How far are you willing to go to actually find that perfect somebody... ies. If you're not willing to make a group of people your soul mate then you'd better plan on being alone. You'll always have television.” PeopleIfsSoulThreeChancePerfectHalfFourPlansGroupsTelevisionWillingSixBillionsYour SoulMatesSoul Mate Author:Christopher Titus
“My dad got divorced six times. Well, he actually only got divorced five times. He wouldn't divorce the sixth one 'cause he said he didn't want people to think he couldn't commit. 'I don't want people not taking me serious.' Dad, your last marriage was performed in Reno by an ordained lesbian Elvis impersonator. Who you hit on.” PeopleThinkingWantWellsSaidLastsCausesFiveSeriousDadSixMy DadDivorceCommitDivorcedImpersonators Author:Christopher Titus
“From an early age, I was trying to get laughs, but it wasn't a conscious thing. I think I was about six months old when I first realized I needed friends in life and making people laugh worked for me. By nine months, I came out of my shell.” PeopleThinkingTryingFirstsAgeLaughingMonthsNeededSixConsciousNineShellsSix MonthsMaking People LaughNine Months Author:Arj Barker
“Republicans are just rich, old, white people - that's all they are. You ever see the Republican National Convention? All white people - six black people: paid actors. James Earl Jones in his most difficult, challenging role! Tune in and attempt to watch him look pleased during a George Bush speech. And Clarence Thomas - as himself.” PeopleLooksActorsDifficultBlackChallengesWhiteRolesWatchesRichRepublicanSpeechSixPaidTunesBlack PeopleConventions Author:Andy Kindler
“I don't sleep much. Five to six, I'd say. You could argue that people, as they get older, sleep less - probably because they're afraid of dying at some point. I know my parents don't sleep much. I know that I used to be able to sleep until noon when I was younger. I couldn't fathom staying in bed until ten now. I wouldn't know what to do unless there's a football game on.” PeopleKnowsAbleUsedGamesParentSleepFiveDyingFootballBedTenSixArguingUsed To BeStayingNoonFathomFootball Game Author:George Clooney
“I get female groupies, but I don't get male groupies. I have women who offer to sleep with me all the time. But not men. They're all talk and nay action -- as we'd say in Scotland. If I go anywhere near most of our male following, they are freaked. Absolutely freaked. I think my height has got a lot to do with it. I'm really tall. I'm five-eight, and with heels, I'm six foot, so people are like. 'Whoa, Amazon!' People are a wee taken aback by that 'cause I think people expect me to be small.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenActionCausesSleepTakenFiveFeetOffersSixFemaleMalesFollowingEightHeightTallHeelsScotlandAmazonGroupie Author:Shirley Manson
“I actually only went to high school for six weeks. I lost sleep deciding on what I would wear the next day or who I had to impress. I was just a much more down-to-earth, relaxed person once I decided not to care what people thought of me.” PeoplePersonsCareSchoolEarthNextLostSleepWeekSixHigh SchoolDecidedImpressNext DayRelaxedDown To Earth Author:Hope Partlow
“Of the seven million Americans living abroad, one million are military, and not all of them are Republicans. The other six million are overwhelmingly Democrat because people who live in foreign countries have a much different perspective as to what is happening in our country.” PeopleDifferentCountryMillionsMilitaryPerspectiveRepublicanSixHappeningsDemocratSevenOur CountryDifferent PerspectiveForeign CountriesLiving Abroad Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“It's impossible having five, six, seven people in a room being creative together and not fight, because you want to fight. It's the only way creativity works, if you all put your ideas in.” PeopleIfsWayWantIdeasTogetherFightingRoomsCreativityCreativeFiveImpossibleSixSevenBe Creative Author:Adam Duritz
“My town was even smaller. Only six hundred people. We didn't have a grocery store.” PeopleSixHundredTownsStoresGroceriesGrocery Stores Author:PJ Harvey