Quotes About People

It's nice to go skating in a parking lot and hang out with people who aren't talking about their next movie role.

The skeptical community is absolutely near and dear to the 'Mythbusters' heart and there's no small reason that they've embraced us. That's our people. That's the way we like to think.

A good sketch show, in my opinion, gets together a bunch of fun, funny people and collects their brainfarts, and shares them.

If you don't like the people, you're just doing a sketch. Which, in most cases, is comedy minus some emotional backbone.

I get less and less sketching done at shows, as more and more people want to come up and talk or get stuff signed. Most requested character? Probably Catwoman.

The three short years I spent at Harvard, where I lived with excellent people, taught me not only that I must know how to choose my partners but also that choosing excellent partners is a skill you can learn. Obviously, when you spend time with the best, you learn how to choose among them.

You've got to use the skill set God has given you, and I have the ability to connect with people.

The single biggest resource India has is people and skill.

As a rule, I think people in L.A. are interested in any writer who brings a different skill set and experiences. There's an attraction to novelty and to anyone whose writing isn't based in screenwriting. I had that novelty.

I come from a background in the military where everyone had health care. We understood the value of education as a given. You learn a skill, earn a pension and go on to 'Be all that you can be'... You invest in people. You hold people accountable.

For 'Motive,' it wasn't a question of making it look un-Canadian, but instead, we wanted it to be the product of a bunch of really skilled people making something. And that's what you have.

I think people involved in politics make good actors. Acting and politics both involve fooling people. People like being fooled by actors. When you get right down to it, they probably like being fooled by politicians even more. A skillful actor will make you think, but a skillful politician will make you never have to think.

The way you deal with automation is by upgrading people's skills so they can get the jobs of the future.

A basic problem for people in politics is that approximately none have the hard skills necessary to distinguish great people from charlatans.

No, I wouldn't direct a movie, no. I couldn't. I don't have the patience for it, I don't have the people skills. You have to be clever. I'm not really clever in that kind of way. And you have to be able to manipulate people, but at the same time allow them to feel like they are manipulating you, to get the kind of movie that you want.

Ultimately, innovation depends on the people with advanced skills who have the ideas, and on the business risk-takers willing to back them.

There are a lot of really good skills you get from doing journalism - it completely changed my world and how I interact with other people.

In a psychiatric hospital, a lot of people believe that people on TV are talking to them directly through the screen. I'm with about 500 of these people, and I'm on TV every Friday night. As I was queuing up for breakfast one morning, one guy nearly jumped out of his skin. My first thought was to go 'Woooo!'

There are some great skinny girls, but it's about characters, isn't it? That's what I find attractive. People who've had interesting lives and tell you something that you don't know or are really good fun.

Misery doesn't only love company. It demands it. For this reason, don't walk away from negative people. RUN!

I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people.

The American nation in the sixth ward is a fine people; they love the eagle - on the back of a dollar.

People substitute tradition for the living experience of the love of God. They talk and think as though walking with God was attained by walking in the footsteps of people who walked with God.

I have a huge support base of people that love me around the world: millions of fans and supporters and growing.