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Quotes About People

I'm one of these people who tends to think that the ordinary people are more fascinating than the celebrities and even the politicians.
~ Matt Lauer
The characters I play always seem eerily appropriate to where I am in my personal life at the time, and if they're not, there always tends to be this notion that I should be learning something to apply to my own life from these people.
~ James Ransone
In the gym, people's enthusiasm tends to get the best of them. They realize this is their opportunity to say hello or that they love my work... It doesn't matter how profusely you're sweating.
~ Sterling K. Brown
What we do have is a system in which power tends to be awarded to people on the basis that they are corruptible.
~ Bret Weinstein
A Tennessee Squire is an elite group of people.
~ Michael Anthony
I often find that pundits are quite negative... not just in tennis, but in sport in general. I just don't like that. Obviously, the job of a pundit is to create interest and a bit of controversy. I get that. Listeners like that. But I do think there's a duty there to promote the sport and talk about how good these people are at what they do.
~ Andy Murray
No matter what happens, tennis is still tennis: You can see a lot of great matches, a lot of new people.
~ Marat Safin
I believe India has multi-talented people, so I have also embarked on my journey as an actor. I don't need to be a celebrity, since tennis has already given fame to me.
~ Leander Paes
When I don't enjoy it anymore, I'll stop. But I think as long as people want me to be where the action is, I'll be there. I just love to play tennis.
~ Bobby Riggs
It's nice I inspire the kids. tThat's the most important thing, and more people are now playing tennis, even for fun. That's great.
~ Simona Halep
I'm more in that Rafa Nadal high-energy high-octane mold out there. I wear that emotion on the court. That's how I play my best tennis. People either like that or not. And I can't change that: that's who I am on a tennis court.
~ Lleyton Hewitt
People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It's not even paper.
~ Colin Quinn
When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed.
~ Russell Baker
It's interesting that people bring different things to oppressive and difficult situations, when they're reduced to the barest terms of survival. That's what provides tension in a lot of films.
~ Sharon Salzberg
The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
~ Ralph Fiennes
I like people a lot, but I am not comfortable in literary New York situations. There is deep anxiety and tension around success here. I don't share problems I'm having about my work, and I think conversations around publishing are boring.
~ Elizabeth Strout
Our American history reflects a long-standing tension between people and power. In fact, all government everywhere does. But our American form of government solved the problem, better than most, of moderating this tension between people and power.
~ Sheldon Whitehouse
When I was making my debut as an artist, I felt that it was very important that I try to combine the background of my own culture, my people, and the country into the contemporary art world. So that's how I came up with the term 'superflat.'
~ Takashi Murakami
I was elected by the good people of Fort George for another five-year term, and I certainly intend to continue serving them in this, my seventh term as a member of the House of Representatives.
~ Said Musa
At the heart of both democracy and capitalism is a simple assumption that, across the board, people make free and relatively rational decisions: that we are, to borrow a medical term, Gillick Competent.
~ Nick Harkaway
The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.
~ Sally Quinn
This urbanization that's taking place around the world is very real. But if it's people that are seeking an urbanized environment out of desperation, that's not going to be helpful long term.
~ Mick Cornett
Boycott is not a principle. When it becomes one, it itself risks becoming exclusive and racist. No boycott, in our sense of the term, should be directed against an individual, a people, or a nation as such.
~ John Berger
I didn't want to make it a lifetime thing. I don't believe in statutory term limits, but people can limit themselves if they want to, and that's what I decided to do.
~ George J. Mitchell