“My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director.” PeopleIfsWayActorsHabitTerribleDirectorsTendenciesWhat IfGood Habits Author:David Mamet
“Terrible wars have been fought where millions have died for one idea - freedom. And it seems that something that means so much to so many people would be worth having.” PeopleMeanHas BeensIdeasWarSeemsWould BeMillionsTerribleDied Author:Robin Williams
“Rational people, anti-religionists, must end their timidity and come out of the closet and assert themselves. And those who consider themselves only moderately religious really need to look in the mirror and realize that the solace and comfort that religion brings you actually comes at a terrible price.” PeopleNeedsLooksEndsReligionRealizingReligiousTerribleComfortMirrorsRationalClosetsSolaceTimidity Author:Bill Maher
“I'm terrible about people wanting to take pictures with me. I'm a giant baby about it. They treat you like a cartoon. There's nothing you can do except make light of it.” PeopleLightCan DoBabyTerribleTreatsGiantsCartoon Author:Zach Galifianakis
“I think people have a tendency to think of a writer as someone who wants to go take a walk, maybe case a library... I think that's great sometimes but we really treat it like Monday through Friday come in early. You're not late for inspiration. You're working through it no matter what is happening even if you're writing a terrible version.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantWritingSometimesMatterInspirationWalksCasesTerribleLateHappeningsTreatsNo Matter WhatLibraryVersionsTendenciesMondayFriday Author:Roberto Orci
“My mother said that when I was young I was constantly saying, Look at this - Look at that. I think that taking pictures must be my way of asking people to Look at this - Look at that. If my photographs make the viewer feel what I did when I first took them - Isn't this funny... terrible... moving... beautiful? - then I've accomplished my purpose.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayFeelsFirstsLooksSaidBeautifulMovingYoungMotherPurposeTerribleAskingPhotographMy WayAccomplishedViewersTaking Pictures Book:A Photo Journal Source: A Photo Journal
“It probably says something really clinically terrible about my character that I need to get up on a stage and go 'Ra ra ra' in front of people.” PeopleNeedsCharacterStageFrontsTerribleGet Up Author:Dylan Moran
“People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.” PeopleMenPresidentWiseDoorsMinutesTerribleFuneralTerrible Things Author:Nancy Reagan
“If you saw my musical collection it's absolutely horrendous, I've got everything from Stockhausen to The Beach Boys to Gina G, all sorts of terrible things and other people come here and look at my record collection and go, "Ah, you can't possibly like that - how embarrassing!"” PeopleIfsLooksBoysRecordsSawsTerribleMusicalBeachCollectionsEmbarrassingTerrible ThingsBeach BoysGinaStockhausen Author:Thighpaulsandra
“We [the USA] have a $16 trillion debt which these tax increases will do nothing to solve and you will have at least 200,000 less jobs next year than you have now. And the people who vote for that will be responsible for that decision and they will held accountable for that terrible public policy.” PeopleYearsJobsNextDecisionPolicyTerribleTaxesVoteIncreaseResponsibleSolveDebtUsaNext YearBeing ResponsiblePublic PolicyTax Increases Author:Marco Rubio
“About the joys and the courage, I really don't know what other people think. I just know that I've never left Africa. I've lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayHappensJoyLeftWonderfulTerribleDignitySouthSpiteSouth AfricaWonderful ThingsTerrible Things Author:Nadine Gordimer
“I'd say the main way people get into terrible financial trouble is just to spend too much money relative to their income, and that is an endemic problem in the United States of America, and that's the kind of thing that should be taught about in schools.” PeopleWayShouldKindStatesProblemSchoolAmericaUnitedUnited StatesToo MuchTroubleTaughtTerribleFinancialIncomeRelativeUnited States Of America Author:Ben Stein
“Bisexuality doubles your chances of a date on a Saturday night. I believe that sex is a beautiful thing between two people. Between five, it's fantastic. If there is reincarnation, I'd like to come back as Warren Beatty's fingertips. I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own. My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty. Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's a pretty good one.” PeopleIfsLoveBelieveTwoFunnyLastsBeautifulLife IsNightI BelieveSexChanceMy OwnLove IsLibertyPracticeFiveLoversTerribleHumorousEmptyExperienceDatingFantasticFilmmakerLove LifeBeautiful ThingsReincarnationLast TimeSaturdayStatuesWithout LoveSaturday NightMasturbationFunny LoveHumoristsFingertipsBisexualityStatue Of LibertyGood LoveFunny JokesBeattySex Without LoveGood Lovers Author:Woody Allen
“Our efforts to counter hatred, intolerance, and indifference must continue simultaneously at individual and structural levels. We must try to influence for good the minds and hearts of individual people through dialogue and confidence building. These efforts must be reinforced by our efforts to create just structures in society to support the ongoing work of negotiations in the human community. Only then will we have a chance to negate the terrible consequences of the tremendous conflicts facing humankind today.” PeopleTryingMindHumansHeartTodayIndividualCommunityChanceLevelsEffortSupportInfluenceBuildingTerribleConflictConsequenceHatredStructureDialogueIndifferenceHumankindIntoleranceNegotiationHeart And MindOngoingConfidence Building Author:Nelson Mandela
“I'm not one of these people who thinks everything in the past is great and everything modern is terrible. But I do think cities should be a mix of old things and new things.” PeopleThinkingShouldPastCitiesModernTerribleNew ThingsOld Things Author:Marc Almond
“Just reading that - just reading that a person can be black and still perform in blackface, making fun of black people for a living, and at the same time be a genius and be an incredible entertainer and at the same time be extremely conflicted and feel like - just feel terrible for doing that, essentially, which is what Bert Williams felt, from what I gather, from what I read - all of that just made - was so incredible to me.” PeopleFeelsPersonsMadeStillsReadingFunFeltBlackGeniusTerribleIncrediblesBlack PeopleEntertainersBlackface Author:Cecile McLorin Salvant
“I've dated some very enthusiastic, attractive people and some very unenthusiastic, less attractive people. I see no correlation. But female friends of mine who have dated male public figures have found that is the case. They say male models are terrible in bed, because they feel like just showing up is all the effort they need to make.” PeopleNeedsFeelsFoundEffortCasesFiguresMinesTerribleBedModelsFemaleMalesAttractiveEnthusiasticShowing UpCorrelationPublic FiguresFemale Friends Author:Moby
“I think television is a medium which has the potential to do great things but has been traduced by these... terrible people who rise through the ranks.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensTelevisionTerribleGreat ThingsMediums Author:Jonathan Meades
“This is a terrible year [2015] in a lot of ways. You have Paris. You have San Bernardino. But there was, if you remember the summer, there was that attempted terror attack on the train in France. There were two U.S. Marines, there`s one other guy. They were three guys who got up and who stopped that attack. Nobody died. They are heroes and they are my people of the year, three of them.” PeopleIfsWayYearsTwoRememberGuyThreeHeroTerribleSummerDiedTrainTerrorFranceParisMarineOther GuysTerror Attacks Author:Steve Kornacki
“Often, my central challenge is figuring out how do I build trust, how do I acquaint people who've just endured some terrible event - losing their child to murder, say, or being sexually assaulted - with the bizarre and sometimes invasive nature of in-depth interviews that aren't just a quick list of ten questions?” PeopleChildrenSometimesChallengesEventsTerribleTenLosingMurderDepthListsInterviewsBizarreSexuallyTerrible Events Author:Sarah Stillman
“I think that the Vietnam War era is important because we tend not to want to revisit it. For black people, there was the temptation of disaffection. People looked for alternative ways to express themselves personally and politically, people doubted the system, and there was the terrible kind of division in black America between a radical leadership and a much older, compromising leadership.” PeopleThinkingWayWantKindImportantWarAmericaBlackTerribleTemptationCompromiseRadicalAlternativesErasDivisionBlack PeopleVietnamVietnam WarDoubtedBlack America Author:Darryl Pinckney
“We got to make sure that we have the incentives for people to rise and not put them in a position of where they go to work and they lose more than what they gain and they're like this system is terrible.” PeopleLosesPositionTerribleGainsIncentives Author:John Kasich
“I'm really terrible at math, so I won't even attempt to do ratios and percentages, but all I know is that there's a lot of new songs that no-one has heard yet, and that there's a lot of old songs that some very, very super hardcore fans have heard for sure - there are people that have been coming and seeing me play in bars in like 2002, and there are songs that those people heard.” PeopleKnowsHas BeensPlaySongSeeingHeardFansTerribleMathBarsPercentagesRatiosHardcoreNew SongsOld Song Author:Regina Spektor
“People would stop me in the street - my demographic tends to be the elderly Jewish women from Miami; I think they tend to fancy me as someone that would've been good with their daughter or something - and a lot of them will do the wrist-slapping thing. "Oh, you're a terrible man! Just terrible!" And I'm, like, "Well, it's just a show. I'm just playing a character."” PeopleThinkingMenWellsCharacterShowsStreetsTerribleDaughterFancyElderlyWristsMiamiDemographicsSlapping Author:Peter Jacobson
“I’ve always liked to read about extremely wealthy people, especially when they are crazy (like Howard Hughes or Caligula.) While writing this book I did a lot of fun research on robber barons like Rockefeller and Morgan. But the most helpful stuff came from studying royal families and mad emperors. The best book I read was probably A King’s Own Story, which is the memoir of Edward VIII. Also, anything about Ivan the Terrible or Ted Turner.” PeopleWritingBookStoriesFunStuffStudyCrazyKingsTerribleResearchMadMemoirHelpfulWealthyRoyalEmperorRobbersRoyal FamilyTurnerRobber Baron Author:Simon Rich
“The occupation is really terrible on a variety of levels. It's terrible on the "shooting people and torturing people in prison" level. But I think the thing that is very hard to convey is that it's also this bureaucratic grinding-down and daily humiliation that I think would probably be as horrible as the spectacular violence.” PeopleThinkingHardLevelsViolenceTerribleDown AndPrisonHorribleVarietyShootingOccupationHumiliationSpectacular Author:Molly Crabapple
“I don't think there's ever been a moment in history where that, as an artistic message, has played very well, because people in their hearts know that's terrible and a lie.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWellsHeartMomentsLyingTerribleMessagesArtistic Author:Adam McKay
“The people who died in the Twin Towers in that terrible crime mattered. The people who were bombed to death in dusty villages in Afghanistan didn't matter, even though it now seems that their numbers were greater. The people who will die in Iraq don't matter.” PeopleMatterSeemsDiesNumbersGreaterCrimeTerribleDiedIraqVillageAfghanistanTwinsTowersTwin Towers Author:John Pilger
“The funny thing is, this is what everyone assumes, that anybody who talks has an axe to grind. I've been around a long time, and yes, there obviously are people who disagree with policy who talk to me, but it's less axes to grind than people who are really motivated. One of the terrible things about this Administration is that nobody wants to hear bad news.” PeopleWantLongPolicyTerribleNewsLong TimeAssumingAdministrationMotivatedDisagreeTerrible ThingsFunny ThingsGrindBad NewsTalk To MeAxes Author:Seymour Hersh
“Libya was a terrible mistake. You know, frankly, that's something that people ought to be thinking about in regard to Hillary [Clinton]. You know, they talk about Benghazi, which is very legitimate. Of course it is. But we should never have deposed [Muamar] Gaddafi. That was a terrible mistake.” PeopleThinkingKnowsShouldCoursesMistakeOughtTerribleRegardClintonLibyaBenghaziGaddafi Author:John Kasich
“I had a very specific type of terrible network experience where I was told that people like Seth Rogen and Jason Segel weren't leads, so it truly drove me mad. So to be trusted is all I value.” PeopleValuesTypeTerribleMadTrustedJason Author:Judd Apatow
“They really make sex into such a horrible thing and how terrible anything related to sex is, but isn't that why we're all here? We wouldn't be here at all if two people in our past hadn't been horny for each other, that's how it works. So we can't continue unless people keep being horny for each other, that's just the way it is.” PeopleIfsWayTwoPastSexTerribleHorribleRelatedOur PastHornyHorrible Things Author:Brad Warner
“I was really nervous about people booing, because my mother had gone for a film 20 years earlier and had a terrible time with people booing, whistling, so I knew that in Cannes people can get aggressive.” PeopleYearsFilmMotherGoneTerribleNervousAggressiveWhistlingCannesTerrible TimesBooing Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg
“I'm so aware when you make a film, there are so many elements to get right. So many people with such important jobs. You know, it's terrible. I walk away from a film going, "The cinematography was great, wasn't it? But the music wasn't so good. The casting wasn't great."” PeopleKnowsImportantJobsFilmWalksTerribleElementsCastingCinematographyImportant Jobs Author:Stuart A. Staples
“What's confusing about that, though, is you [Marco Rubio] say if he [Donald Trump] were the nominee, it would destroy the conservative movement. You're painting scary pictures of him being the nominee. But then you're saying he will never be the nominee. You have signed onto the hashtag #neverTrump.I guess what people wonder is, you say all these terrible things about him, but then why might you not, like Chris Christie, who said bad things about him, just turn around and endorse him once - once he gets the nomination?” PeopleWonderPaintingTerribleConservativeScaryConfusing Author:John S. Dickerson
“When I look around the world and see so many countries turning people away, I think it is terrible. And I know that these are all issues that Germany is culturally dealing with in terms of integration but it is just something that I deeply admire.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldLooksCountryTermIssuesTerribleAdmireAround The WorldGermanyIntegration Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“There are bands, like R.E.M., who want to have 17 records, and some are terrible and some are great. I don't know if people think like that anymore. Things are more atomized now.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWantRecordsTerribleBand Author:Travis Morrison
“Advice is not really very useful. People gave me terrible advice, and I guess I was just smart enough to ignore some of it.” PeopleEnoughAdviceTerribleSmart Author:Travis Morrison
“You have the mainstream bourgeois life of the U.S., Europe, the "developed" world - the life of technology, education, mortgages, careers, a certain level of physical comfort - while on the other hand, several billion people on the planet exist on less than a dollar a day. That's a huge and terrible reality to get your head around.” PeopleWorldHandsRealityCertainLevelsCareersTechnologyPlanetsHugeTerribleComfortEuropeDollarsBillionsMainstreamMortgageBourgeoisTechnology In Education Author:Ben Fountain
“I got brilliant stories from people who'd never set foot in an MFA program and had published very little, and terrible stories from people who'd published a lot and had all the credentials. It was all over the map and that was part of the fun.” PeopleLittlesStoriesFunFeetTerribleProgramBrilliantMapsCredentials Author:Ben Fountain
“I don't hate religion, I try not to hate religion. I hate the terrible things that religion makes people do, and I hate the greed that comes from it.” PeopleTryingHateTerribleI HateGreedTerrible ThingsDon't HateHate Religion Author:Hutch Harris
“We give each other a wide berth even if we have the flu, let alone... So, I think that's part of the stigma that people who have diseases suffer. It's almost infectious... if somebody is closer to death, they're almost a bad omen and I think that's terrible.” PeopleIfsThinkingGivingSufferingTerribleDiseaseWideFluStigmaOmen Author:Peter Morgan
“I think there's a danger that some people look at the success of my first movie as a fluke. So I want to make sure that my second film is an even bigger success. Then if I direct my third movie and it's terrible, it'll be okay.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantFirstsLooksFilmDangerTerribleDirectOkayThirdsBiggerFlukes Author:Paul Reubens
“I've had terrible, terrible, terrible shows where I just thought, "That was off-key" or I forgot lines or I thought I looked like an idiot, and then you're leaving and talking to people, and they're like, "I had the best time of my life! That was amazing!" You just never know.” PeopleKnowsShowsLinesTalkingKeysTerribleLeavingIdiotBest TimesTime Of My LifeBest Time Of My Life Author:Babatunde Adebimpe
“I think it's much better to have your eyes open, but on the other hand, of course it can do harm if you tell people look, there's all these terrible things you can do and then some idiot may go ahead and do it.” PeopleIfsThinkingLooksMayHandsEyeCoursesCan DoTerribleHarmIdiotTerrible Things Author:Freeman Dyson
“I've never had something - like, you know, drunk people have tried to do that to me, and I instantly shut it off. I say, don't to this, dude; you'll feel terrible about this later. It'll be - I'll bring it up all the time; I'll make fun of you. Just save yourself the embarrassment and don't do it.” PeopleKnowsFeelsFunLike YouTerribleDrunkEmbarrassmentSave YourselfDrunk People Author:Seth Rogen
“Everybody has a home team: It's the people you call when you get a flat tire or when something terrible happens. It's the people who, near or far, know everything that's wrong with you and love you anyways. These are the ones who tell you their secrets, who get themselves a glass of water without asking when they're at your house. These are the people who cry when you cry. These are your people, your middle-of-the-night, no-matter-what people.” PeopleKnowsMatterHomeHappensNightHouseWaterSecretTeamMiddleLove YouCryTerribleAnd LoveAskingNo Matter WhatGlassesFlatsTireMiddle Of The NightFlat TiresHome Team Author:Shauna Niequist
“I think people who come from abuse and/or people who have mental illnesses, have terrible self-esteem problems.” PeopleThinkingSelfProblemSelf EsteemTerribleAbuseIllnessMental IllnessEsteem Author:Sinead O'Connor
“At network television you could make a show like Freaks and Geeks, and even though 7 million people watch is every week, you were considered a terrible failure, and they got rid of you and staff. Now ... It's like a world where the replacements are the biggest fans in the world. It's, the Elvis Costellos of television are the winners. Creativity is king and it's very very exciting.” PeopleWorldShowsWatchesCreativityMillionsWeekFansTelevisionKingsTerribleExcitingWinnerFreakStaffGeekReplacementsBiggest Fan Author:Judd Apatow
“So, you could often say things are terrible and that accounts for what happened, or things are really bright, and that accounts for what happened. Often, the real explanation for what happened is much more subtle and interesting and involves maybe small shocks or what a couple people did on a Wednesday morning that changed the arc of history.” PeopleRealInterestingMorningHappenedChangedCoupleTerribleAccountsExplanationShockSubtleArcsWednesdayWednesday Morning Author:Cass Sunstein