People Quotes - Page 23

• There are a number of things that I'm trying to get into the books. There's a meta-fictional aspect, if I may use that pretentious word, to writing anything. You're writing in the shadow of all the people that have gone before and, in a way, you're having a dialogue with them. As someone who's read J.R. Tolkien and Robert E. Howard and all the great fantasists before, this is almost my answer to them.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Writing, Numbers

  Source: collider.com

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• I know who's going to be on the throne [in the Gameof Thrones], at the end, so I better not say. But, there will be a few people sitting on it, before the end.

  George R. R. Martin

  Thrones, Sitting, Ends

  Source: collider.com

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• Muslims are peace-loving people generally. Among the young, yes, there are some militant attitudes. But a lot of it arises out of chivalry.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Attitude, Chivalry, Young

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's true that most people find it far more comfortable to trust an authority than to have their faith questioned.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Authority, Comfortable

  Live Chat with Ellsberg and Filmmakers, www.pbs.org. October 5, 2010.

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• What you realize is it's not about financial success as an artist. A lot of actors and actresses, producers, writers, and the creative people in the business realize that. It's not about that. Yeah, we all want to be successful, but we all just want to create and we want to tell the stories. We want to continue creating the opportunities to be able to continue doing what we love. So, at the end of the day, I feel like it's a win-win for everybody to be able to make these independent films.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Independent, Successful, Winning

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Transparency people talk a lot about, it's a goal everybody ascribes to but when push comes to shove, very few people actually adhere to it.

  Keith Rabois

  Goal, Transparency

  "Lecture 14: How to Operate" by Keith Rabois, genius.com. November 6, 2014.

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• It's actually a good thing if you do reference checks on somebody and half the people you call say they are a micromanager and the other half say they actually give me a lot of responsibility. That's a feature not a bug.

  Keith Rabois

  Responsibility, Giving, Bugs

  "Lecture 14: How to Operate" by Keith Rabois, genius.com. November 6, 2014.

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• It's weird as actors because I mean we're fortunate in the group of people who have to spend time away from their families. There are men and women serving overseas who certainly have it a lot harder than we do, and there are jobs that take people away from the families, and that's a reality with some jobs that you have. One thing that's really difficult I find is the transition, because not only do you have to learn how to transition to living on your own again, there's a transition that happens learning how to live with somebody again.

  Chris Pratt

  Jobs, Mean, Reality

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• People can't think when their minds are clouded with fear.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Thinking, Mind, Clouded

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Don't accept the excuse of complexity. A lot of people will tell you, this is too challenging, this is too complicated, yeah well I know other people simplify but that's not for me, this is a complicated business. They're wrong. You can change the world in 140 characters.

  Keith Rabois

  Character, Challenges, World

  "Lecture 14: How to Operate" by Keith Rabois, genius.com. November 6, 2014.

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• The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Tactics, Want, Used

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The more you simplify, the better people will perform. People can not understand and keep track of a long complicated set of initiatives. So you have to distill it down to one, two, or three things and use a framework they can repeat, they can repeat without thinking about, they can repeat to their friends, they can repeat at night.

  Keith Rabois

  Night, Thinking, Two

  "How To Start A Startup". Y Combinator’s CS183B Stanford Class. Lecture 14: How to Operate,

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• More generally, people who lived in a period when maternal, infant and childhood mortality were still high would have been tougher than most of us can imagine.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Childhood, Imagine, Mortality

  "Marilynne Robinson: A Good Inheritance". Interview with Michele Filgate, www.barnesandnoble.com. October 21, 2014.

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• A democracy is predicated on an educated citizenry. You cannot have a democracy with people that are more interested in what Nicole Kidman is doing or whoever the latest fashion model is.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Fashion, Democracy, Nicole

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In the Communist period, the revolutionaries, the leaders were almost always - Che Guevara, people like that - they were always from the middle class and the educated. And empathy is a very powerful emotion.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Powerful, Class, Empathy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I felt that let's understand that all these people are just human, even the advisors in the White House, they're just real people trying to make real decisions and they make mistakes like anybody else does under pressure. If you can get that with these great performances then you claim it on that level as well.

  Gerard Butler

  Real, Mistake, White

  Source: collider.com

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• When people want me to sign an autograph in a restaurant, and I'm eating. I don't even have to say no, I just kind of stop and look at them ... "Oh, okay. I'll ... I'll come back."

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Looks, Want, Kind

  "Samuel L. Jackson is a big nerd, and other revelations from 'The Man'". Interview with Larry Carroll, www.mtv.com. September 08, 2005.

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• No matter what you're doing, if you're trying to make a movie, you need to be working with people that are really good and who make you better.

  Ben Affleck

  Trying, Needs, Matter

  "Ben Affleck, Screenwriter Chris Terrio and Producer Grant Heslov Talk ARGO, George Clooney’s Input on the Production, Challenging Scenes and Oscar Buzz". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 8, 2012.

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• The original languages didn't even have he and she. They didn't have concepts of masculine and feminine. People were people. And the whole idea was that we were in a circle together, not in a hierarchy together.

  Gloria Steinem

  Masculine And Feminine, Circles, Ideas

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• There's nothing more exciting than playing live for the people. Just play it, just do it.

  Narada Michael Walden

  Play, Exciting, Just Do It

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• I have a very sissy job, where I go to work and get my hair done, and people do my makeup, and I go and say lines and people spoil me rotten. And everyone has that kind of curiosity of how far can you go, how far can you take it. I think it's always good testing yourself.

  Christian Bale

  Jobs, Thinking, Makeup

  "Christian Bale May Kill Someone Yet". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2010.

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• Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. As an actor, you're giving it up, you're at the mercy of so many other people.

  Christian Bale

  Art, Giving, Actors

  "Christian Bale May Kill Someone Yet". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2010.

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• I think it's artist's role to give and to receive and the people to give it, hear it, vibe on it, and give it back around again.

  Narada Michael Walden

  Artist, Thinking, Giving

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• I get tired of myself pretty fast. So I can't imagine other people don't get tired of me.

  Paul Giamatti

  Tired, Imagine, I Can

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• What we have to do is make sure that here in America, if you work hard, you can get ahead. If you worked hard, not only did you have a good job, but you also had decent benefits, decent health care. We've got to make sure that we're doing everything we can to expand the middle class and people who are working hard can get into the middle class.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Hard Work, Class

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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