Quotes About People

The press never accepts at face value that the President is taking a certain action because he wants to create jobs or because he believes that it is in the best interests of the American people or that he is genuinely committed to making life better for people.

The global movement of displaced people, many of whom end up in detention without hope, is one of the most pressing issues of our times.

We're manufacturing to meet the demands of our own people but, in the meantime, for the entire world as well, and that definitely put a lot of extra pressure on our environment.

There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.

The main objective - our soul is our people. And our job is to enrich their lives, change the world. And so I think that's the bigger pressure you put on yourself.

I remember people - not my family - always asking, 'Oh, so are you going to make movies when you're older?' I felt pressured, and that always kind of deterred me.

Remember, don't let the pressures of doing business get in the way of what doing business is truly about: building relationships with people.

My experience would say to me, never presume to have an answer to what the people are actually going to do.

The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people. In order to do this, they had to forget, or pretend to forget, all they had previously known abut the Africans.

I am fascinated by people's flaws and delusions: all the messy bits of human nature we all try to pretend we don't have.

I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting. The more different they are, the bigger the challenge.

It is only from the people I've had the good fortune to meet that I am learning the lessons to guide me. Baz Luhrmann, director of 'Moulin Rouge,' for example, has a childlike curiosity about the world. He doesn't pretend to know all the answers - quite the opposite, in fact. He asks loads of questions of everyone.

I don't pretend to be Joy Division or New Order. What I do is very straight forward: it's an interpretation and a celebration of the music, with different people. Everyone looks at it and knows exactly what I'm doing.

Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.

The thing a writer has to avoid is being the 'voice' of his people and pretending he can speak for them.

I think there are some people who have those childhoods that are really bad and so what happens is that they find an escape through pretending to be other people.

I hate people thinking I'm some pretentious fraud.

Cincinnati is a prettier city than people give it credit for, I like it here, like the people. They're so polite.

I'm a pretty convenient foil for a lot of people.

Individual people shouldn't be fearful, because by and large our government, the federal government - people always talk; obviously, they don't trust the feds, whatever. The federal government and local communities have done a pretty good job at keeping us safe.

I entertain people. I think that's pretty good. That's what I contribute to society. I'm proud of what I do.

My dad always said, 'There's no limit to the amount of people you can entertain as long as you're willing to be the butt of the joke.' And I've made a pretty good living off of that over the years.

I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.

There's a danger of some of the best people saying, 'I don't want a career in science.'