“It will be good for us in the long run, and I mean there are, you know, six and a half billion people in this world. And it's great for 300 million to keep enjoying more and more property, but I think it's terrific if, you know, the remainder do.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWorldMeanLongRunningEnjoyHalfMillionsThis WorldSixPropertyBe GoodBillionsLong RunsTerrific 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
“The Democrats are as concerned about raising our kids and making sure that the values of empathy and hard work and discipline and self-respect are instilled in our children, and I've got a six-year-old daughter and a three-year-old daughter, and I'm not afraid to talk about how I want to provide them with the sort of cultural framework that's going to allow them to be successful, happy people.” PeopleWantYearsChildrenSelfHardKidsValuesThreeSuccessfulHard WorkDisciplineSixEmpathyDaughterConcernedOur ChildrenDemocratSelf RespectBeing SuccessfulThree YearsNot AfraidFrameworkHappy PeopleSix Year OldsThree Year Olds Author:Barack Obama
“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
“Let's pretend six people live in your house. And you propose that only four people get to eat every day, and you put it to a vote. If four people vote that only four people get to eat, two people don't, that prevails. That's what a democracy is. It's strictly majority-minority rule.” PeopleIfsTwoHouseDemocracyFourSixVoteMajorityMinoritiesPropose Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We're primarily interested in solving the problem of 20 million black people. And if integration is going to solve the problem tomorrow, then let's integrate. But since the Supreme Court issued its desegregation decision seven years ago, and you only have about six or seven percent integration now, on an educational level, that means that the black man trying to use integration as a means of solving his problem will be another 100 years just getting integration on an educational level.” PeopleIfsMenTryingYearsMeanUseProblemBlackDecisionLevelsMillionsTomorrowSixPercentYears AgoCourtSevenEducationalSolveSupremeBlack PeopleIntegrationSupreme CourtSeven YearsIntegrating Author:Malcolm X
“It wasn't exactly a cattle call. I had an agent, and they were seeing people for the parts, so my agent said, "Here's the script, see if there's anything that speaks to you." And I did, and I called my agent and said, "I think this character Data is kind of interesting," and she said, "Well, okay, I'll get you the appointment with Junie Lowry." I had to read with the casting agent first, 'cause nobody really knew me then. Then after that, I had, I think, six different auditions for the role. And finally it was me [on Star Trek].” PeopleIfsThinkingFirstsWellsKindSaidDifferentCharacterSpeakStarsCausesInterestingRolesSeeingSixOkayScriptsAgentsDataAuditionsCastingAppointmentsCattle Author:Brent Spiner
“Most people have no idea how much goes into designing a typeface. Twenty-six letters in the alphabet, usually with two versions of each, upper and lower case. Punctuation and alternate characters and numbers - let's not forget numbers - can add another 40 or so.” PeopleTwoIdeasCharacterForgetNumbersCasesDesignSixLettersTwentiesAddVersionsNo IdeaAlphabetPunctuationTypefaces Author:Michael Bierut
“The population of African people in the United States is far in excess of six small European nations. Where we are going? We have to go back as best we can to where slavery and colonialism took us from. And they took us from a concept of nation management and nation maintenance. We have been so long away from home we unfortunately have forgotten how we ruled states before the foreigners got there.” PeopleLongHas BeensStatesHomeNationsUnitedUnited StatesSixConceptsManagementSlaveryForgottenPopulationExcessColonialismForeignersMaintenanceAway From Home Author:John Henrik Clarke
“People say to me, "When did you come out?" But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning around the house in clothes that belonged to my mother and my grandmother which I'd found in an attic, saying, "I am a beautiful princess!" What my parents thought of this, I don't know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.” PeopleKnowsRealProblemBeautifulMotherFoundHouseParentSinSixClothesGrandmotherPrincessBoresMy GrandmotherReal ProblemsAttics Author:Quentin Crisp
“A lot of people don't feel like doing very much. Or one project is really all they can do at one time. I can have five or six things going at the same time. It doesn't bother me or tire me, but sometimes it does rattle me.” PeopleFeelsDoeI CanSometimesCan DoFiveSixProjectsBotherOne TimeTire Author:Debbie Reynolds
“In March [1972] the unity of Pakistan depended on the suppression of the secessionists. But to carry it out with such brutality on the people instead of on those responsible wasn't necessary. That's not the way to convince poor people who've been told that with the Six Points there'll be no more hurricanes, no more floods, no more hunger. I spoke out against such methods more emphatically than anyone else, and when no one dared do so.” PeopleWayPoorSixResponsibleMethodUnityHungerConvinceSpokesMarchFloodPakistanPoor PeopleHurricanesBrutalitySuppression Author:Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
“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
“The vast majority of the American people agree with me and many others. You don't simply repeal the Affordable Care Act without a replacement. Republicans have had six years to come up with a replacement. They got nothing.” PeopleYearsCareRepublicanSixAgreeMajorityCome UpAffordableReplacementsAffordable Care Act Author:John Lewis
“The last thing we want is a monolithic viewpoint where six people are standing before a president saying the same thing over and over again.” PeopleWantLastsPresidentSixStandingViewpointsSaying The Same Thing Over And Over Author:John Lewis
“What usually happens is that when I'm nearing the end of one novel a vague idea about what I want to do next begins to present itself to me in terms of theme. And I would say over about the next six to eight months, usually as I'm out power walking in the morning, or when I'm cooking at night, or when I'm driving in the car, the people who might embody those themes take on a sharper and sharper focus. And there comes this sort of critical mass moment when they actually start to do things in my head.” PeopleWantIdeasEndsMomentsMightHappensNightNextTermMorningNovelFocusCarMonthsWalkingSixMassCookingEightCriticalDrivingThemeVagueCritical MassVague Ideas Author:Anna Quindlen
“The bottom line is that every single member of Congress has to get voted into office every two or six years. That means they need to look really good in their home district and state. That means good local press. That means people in their district thinking, "Man, I really don't like Congress, but I like Senator Bob."” PeopleThinkingMenNeedsYearsLooksMeanTwoStatesHomeLinesMembersOfficeSixPressesBottomCongressLocalsBobSenatorsBottom LineMean PeopleThinking Man Author:Ezra G. Levin
“Today the patent office is obsolete. You just take whatever you do, tool up, and start production for six months. At the end of the six months you put the data on all the computer inputs all over the world and you got your business. You can make all your money, and then people can steal it, but by then it doesn't matter because you've made the money up front and you avoid wasting money in lawsuits. [My father] had all these kinds of ideas years ahead of others.” PeopleWorldYearsKindMadeIdeasEndsMatterTodayFatherFrontsMonthsOfficeSixComputerToolsProductionsStealingDataSix MonthsObsoleteInputPatentsLawsuitWasting Money Author:Paul Laffoley
“The most encouraging sign is that 71 percent of the public believe the system is profoundly corrupted by the power of money. Ninety-six percent of the people believe it's "important" that we reduce the influence of money. Yet 91 percent think it's "not likely" that its influence will be lessened. Think about that: People know what's right to do yet don't think it can or will be done.” PeopleThinkingKnowsBelieveImportantDoneInfluenceSixPercentNinetyMost Encouraging Author:Bill Moyers
“I see a great lack of stories around. I bought six literary magazines and looked through them to see what people were doing. There wasn't a story in them. They were all about how poetic the feelings of the author were.” PeopleStoriesFeelingsSixMagazinesPoetic Author:Keith Johnstone
“[The Dutch] people want [refugees to be safe] but don't come here. And don't forget, people are very angry about that, that most of the people who came to Holland were younger people, often young men who crossed before coming to Holland six of seven safe countries in order to be in Holland. If they just wanted to be safe, they would have stopped at Turkey or maybe if you find Turkey unsafe, in Greece.” PeopleIfsMenWantCountryWantedYoungOrderForgetSafeSixAngrySevenYoung ManRefugeeTurkeysGreeceDutchHollandUnsafe Author:Geert Wilders
“The fact that refugees traveled through six other countries, like former Yugoslavia, Macedonia, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, France, Germany, Holland, is because they like our social benefits. They like our welfare state. They know which country to pick. They're not going to stay in Hungary or in Estonia. They come to Germany, to Holland. And people sense that those are not the real refugees. And our government has spent billions of euros on them, and the Dutch people know.” PeopleKnowsRealCountryStatesFactsGovernmentSocialSixBenefitsPicksBillionsFormerFranceWelfareGermanyOther CountriesTraveledRefugeeDutchEuroWelfare StateSwitzerlandHollandAustriaHungaryYugoslaviaEstoniaMacedonia Author:Geert Wilders
“How many years did people hate Obamacare? Now there's a poll out there that says Obamacare's never been more popular. Really? Really? Just how stupid do you think we all are? After whatever it is, six years of rising premiums, lost coverage, horrible treatment, no access, now all of a sudden, and there hasn't been any improvement in enrollment.” PeopleThinkingYearsHateLostStupidSixAccessImprovementHorribleRisingTreatmentPollsObamacareCoverageEnrollment Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I don't have any conscious memory of wanting to be an actor, but early on, there was something in my makeup that I felt comfortable with. Then when I was around five or six, I started going to the movies and gradually it dawned on me that I was like one of those people on the screen. And that was it. There was never any question or doubt about what I was going to do for a living.” PeopleActorsFeltMemoriesDoubtFiveSixComfortableConsciousScreensMakeup Author:Martin Sheen
“Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.” PeopleYearsCareDiesWaitingFiveThousandSixOrgansNobody Cares Author:Jack Kevorkian
“The Six-Day War laid a foundation of deep hatred toward Israel 50 years ago. I said this at a very early moment back then, when people were chanting about liberating ancestral land. I was quick to say that regardless of the future of these territories, liberated they are not, because the term liberation only applies to human beings and not to land, not to real estate.” PeopleYearsHumansSaidWarRealMomentsTermHuman BeingsLandSixYears AgoHatredFoundationIsraelLiberationTerritoryEstatesLiberatingLiberatedChanting Author:Amos Oz
“The most lucrative work I have done is presenting primetime TV shows. I do not know what other people earn but a six-figure salary is not uncommon.” PeopleKnowsDoneShowsFiguresTvsSixTv ShowsSalaryPresentingUncommon Author:Kate Thornton
“I still have people coming up to me, and it was, what, six or seven years ago when that finale aired? And they tell me who they were watching with, what their emotional reaction was, and how they were devastated for weeks about [Rita's death in Dexter].” PeopleYearsStillsWeekEmotionalSixYears AgoSevenReactionsSeven YearsDevastatedFinaleEmotional Reactions Author:Julie Benz
“Lyndon Johnson is still the most formidable, fascinating, frustrating, irritating individual I think I've ever known in my entire life. He was huge, a huge character, not only standing six feet four, but when you talked to him, he violated the normal human space between people. He was a great storyteller. The problem was that half his stories, I discovered, weren't true.” PeopleThinkingHumansStillsCharacterStoriesProblemIndividualSpaceHalfKnownFourFeetHugeNormalSixStandingFascinatingStorytellerFrustratingJohnsonFormidableIrritatingSpace Between Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin
“It took me five years on Lyndon Johnson, ten years on the Kennedys, six years on the Roosevelts. Inevitably, you get shaped by the people that you're thinking about during that period of time.” PeopleThinkingYearsFivePeriodsTenSixFive YearsJohnson Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin
“I think being on a show like Game of Thrones for six years, I've gone through that whole hype thing, and I know that it doesn't do you any good creatively. You've just got to stay focused on the character and the script and your work. As humble and as grateful as I am for so many people watching it, and that there's so much love and attention, it's best for my own sanity and creativeness to try and keep that at bay.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTryingYearsWholeCharacterShowsGamesMy OwnAttentionGoneSixGratefulScriptsHumbleFocusedSanityThronesHypeStay FocusedMuch LoveCreativeness Author:Finn Jones
“I like being around people who are good conversationalists. When there's a give and take, and you are heightening an idea, exploring it together, that is my favorite thing in the world. I love a small dinner party - let's say six people, max, where everybody's having the same conversation. That's my favorite thing in the world.” PeopleWorldGivingIdeasTogetherPartyConversationSixMy FavoriteDinnerExploringMaxFavorites ThingsDinner PartyGive And TakeGood Conversation Author:Baron Vaughn
“I don't want to name names because they'd be mad at me if I did, but people who are significant novelists can't get published by real publishers at this point, or have to go through two years of trying after writing a novel that's taken them five or six years and simply can't get the thing in print. Or it gets in print and it doesn't get reviewed in the New York Times Book Review and disappears without a trace. I mean, it's terrifying. I don't know how anybody can stand it. It's such an enormous amount of work and the economics of it are really quite brutal.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantWritingTryingYearsMeanTwoBookRealNamesNovelKnow HowTakenFiveNew YorkAmountSixEconomicsMadDisappearSignificantEnormousNovelistsTwo YearsPrintReviewsBrutalPublishersNew York TimesBook ReviewWithout A Trace Author:Tony Kushner
“You don't know what a rough crowd is. If all I have to do is go make people laugh, that's nothing. Let me tell you what a tough crowd is. A tough crowd is going to a morning service and you got six people there and you gotta pay your house payment. That's a tough crowd.” PeopleIfsKnowsHouseMorningLaughingSixToughLet MeCrowdsRoughPaymentMaking People Laugh Author:Sam Kinison
“I was signed by L.A. Reid on Arista Records when I was 16. He understood me and believed in me. Arista folded and I got put on RCA or whatever, then there were new people there, and every six months it changes and more new people come in.” PeopleRecordsMonthsSixUnderstoodSix Months Author:Avril Lavigne
“In my experience in series TV if you have a good crew and a great cast it's going to be a great group - similar to the theater where it's a bunch of people who are really talented and go to work each day and challenge each other and if you are lucky enough to get a hit then it's five or six or seven years of this kind of work.” PeopleIfsYearsKindEnoughChallengesFiveGroupsTvsLuckySixTheaterSeriesSevenCastsBunchEach DayCrewSeven Years Author:Denis Leary
“People get up, they go to work, they have their lives, but you'll never see the headlines say, 'Six billion people got along rather well today.' You'll have the headline about the 30 people who shot each other.” PeopleWellsTodaySixShotsBillionsGet UpHeadlines Author:John Malkovich
“People don't know where to place me. Terry Gilliam used me as a quirky cop in 'Twelve Monkeys', and then he hired me again to be an effeminate hotel clerk in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'. Another time, I was shooting this indie film 'The Souler Opposite' and six days a week, I'm playing this big puppy dog, then I come to the 'NYPD Blue' set and become this scumbag.” PeopleKnowsBigsFilmUsedWeekDogSixOppositesBlueShootingHotelTwelveCopMonkeysVegasLas VegasPuppyLoathingQuirkyClerksAnother TimePuppy DogFear And LoathingIndie FilmsScumbagsNypd Author:Christopher Meloni
“Both the velodrome and the Commonwealth swimming pool are open to the public and are frequently used by local schools and the local community. Over the last six years young people have been inspired to take up swimming and cycling more seriously; some of them are now coming through as Olympic champions or hopefuls.” PeopleYearsHas BeensSchoolLastsYoungUsedCommunitySixInspiredLocalsChampionSwimmingPoolCyclingCommonwealthSwimming PoolLocal Community Author:Lucy Powell
“Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.” PeopleEndsRememberLiteratureFiveTeacherSixGreat TeacherBest TeacherTeachers And TeachingInspirational TeacherGreat Teaching Author:Andy Rooney
“NFL cheerleading is harder than most people think. They train up to six hours every day with games on Sundays. They gave me a great work ethic.” PeopleThinkingGamesHoursSixEthicsHarderTrainNflSundayWork EthicGreat WorkCheerleadingGreat Work Ethic Author:Sarah Shahi
“I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?” PeopleKnowsLooksKindFatherStarsFiveFourFeetFiguresExpressionSixHundredEarsOddGiantsFishingVillageMovie StarAmazing People Author:Kiefer Sutherland
“Some people think it's because '24' was jump-started by what happened on 9/11. That was never why we made the show. We started production six months prior to 9/11, and we'd already done ten episodes.” PeopleThinkingMadeDoneShowsHappenedMonthsTenSixProductionsEpisodesSix Months Author:Kiefer Sutherland
“One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives.” PeopleWellsEnoughPainSufferingConditionsNormalAnxietySixWorriedDisorderFierceSevereNormal LifeMental PainAnxiety Disorder Author:Polly Toynbee
“Canada sets aside 36 percent of their visas for people with skills they think their country needs. We set aside six percent. We educate the doctors, and then don't give 'em a green card.” PeopleThinkingNeedsGivingCountrySkillsSixPercentDoctorsGreenCardsCanadaEmsEducateVisaGreen Card Author:Michael Bloomberg
“I think most people think that a spiritual path or growing spiritually means that all of a sudden you'll be able to forecast the six lotto numbers and all your bills will be paid.” PeopleThinkingMeanAbleSpiritualNumbersPathGrowingSixPaidBillsSpiritual PathForecasts Author:Iyanla Vanzant
“When people come out of rehab, they usually go to secondary rehab for another six months and then enter back into society gradually. But I came out and did Top Of The Pops straight away!” PeopleMonthsSixPopsSix MonthsRehab Author:Robbie Williams
“I'm a singer, not a politician, and I think you don't want the two to get confused. It's not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.” PeopleThinkingWantTwoTalkingMonthsPoliticianSixAlbumsSingersConfusedComing OutSix MonthsStarvingCnnInterviewers Author:Bono