People Quotes - Page 35

• As an adult, the only people who care about horror movies are academics. No one loves to talk about horror films more than somebody with a Ph.D. in cultural studies at a university.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Who Cares, Adults, Study

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

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• I used to watch a lot of documentaries about Satanic possession - and I don't know if this is racist or not - but in the documentaries, it never happened to Americans! It was always happening in Central America or South America; that's where the priest was always going down to exorcise possessed people. So I didn't have a lot of fear of being possessed by the devil.

  Chuck Klosterman

  America, Devil, Racist

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

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• People can write jokes five minutes after a major world event happens, and have hundreds of thousands of people read them within 10 minutes. Whereas before you write a joke, you don't know if anybody is really touching on it or not, and you tell it onstage the next night. For joke writing it has changed things.

  Nick Thune

  Writing, Night, Touching

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A lot of people would say, to be truthful is to tell all, every dalliance, every crisis. They might be right on paper, but in practice, it's not a great way to go.

  Adam Carolla

  Practice, Paper, Might

  "‘How Dare You!’: Q&A with Adam Carolla". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2010.

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• Those who can't do, teach. And, as Woody Allen says, those who can't teach, teach gym. And, as I say, those who can't teach gym become experts. That's who we look to for answers these days-the people telling you how to make your marriage work. Men telling women how to raise their self-esteem. The only thing that cures everything is talking to people who have the same problem you do. The rest is just a moneymaking bullshit scheme that some asshole is getting rich on.

  Roseanne Barr

  Self Esteem, Men, Talking

  "Roseanne: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Reggae music is simple music - but it's from the heart. Just as people need water to drink, people also need music. If it is true music, the people will be drawn to it.

  Ziggy Marley

  Heart, Simple, Water

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• TV is a responsibility, not only in entertaining people, but using this medium of television in positive ways to teach people and enlighten people.

  James Van Praagh

  Responsibility, Television, Way

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I think in other generations, the 50s, the 60s, people went into religion and they were really involved with religion. I found that religion doesn't answer certain unique questions people have about faith and belief.

  James Van Praagh

  Unique, Thinking, Generations

  "EXCLUSIVE: James Van Praagh Enters a New Realm with Ghost Whisperer: The Second Season". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. September 28, 2007.

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• People are not even going to have time to listen to radio in their cars because they are going to be talking on their phones or twittering, or BBM'ing. So I feel like the only time people are going to hear music is when your phone rings, so that's the whole market I'm going after.

  Spencer Pratt

  Phones, Talking, Car

  Source: www.complex.com

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• There are more people with cell phones in the world than any other thing on the planet. There are billions of cell phones. There's not not billions of radios.

  Spencer Pratt

  Phones, Cells, World

  Source: www.complex.com

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• They say that the average lifespan of an SVU detective is 4 years. People can't do it longer than that because it's so difficult.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Average, Years, Detectives

  "Mariska Hargitay and Dr. Neal Baer Tell All About Law & Order: Special Victims Unit". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. February 20, 2007.

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• Some days I'm just flipping through the iPod trying to get pumped, some days I don't want to listen to anything and just focus. From game to game from day to day, whatever people do to motivate themselves, they do. I do all kinds of things.

  Troy Polamalu

  Ipods, Games, Focus

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Executives and studios really like to have control over their product. They panic or they're not secure enough to trust in the powers of really amazing improv people.

  Harland Williams

  Panic, Enough, Really Amazing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There are very few sports where you can find that tranquility. Some people find that in golf, but when you're in the water it's such a difference from the golf course or the basketball court. That's what makes surfing unique over any other sport.

  Troy Polamalu

  Basketball, Sports, Golf

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I love the theater of the mind because you can go anywhere. You can say anything, and you pull people in. [You] can be jumping out of a window or riding a cow or having bubble-wrap sex or spraying your body with Pam and sliding out of your chair.

  Harland Williams

  Sex, Jumping, Mind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Milton, of all people, gave the most perfect definition of the state of mind required to play jazz: ' with wanton heed and giddy cunning.' That's how you play jazz.

  Paul Desmond

  Play, Perfect, Mind

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• If people knew how badly animals were treated in today's factory farms, if people knew how completely confined and immobilized these creatures are for their entire lives, if people knew how severe and unrelenting is the cruelty these animals are forced to endure, there would be change. If people knew. But too many of us choose to look the other way, to keep the veil in place, to remain unconscious and caught in the cultural trance. That way we are more comfortable. That way is convenient. That way we don' t have to risk too much. This is how we keep ourselves asleep.

  John Robbins

  Animal, Risk, Would Be

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• My advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world - unless you're not only willing, but glad, to feel and work and fight till you die.

  e. e. cummings

  Fighting, Blow, Advice

  "A Miscellany (A Poet's Advice to Students)". Book by E. E. Cummings edited by George James Firmage, 1958.

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• It's good for young people to be angry about something.

  William J. Clinton

  Young, Angry

  "Preview - World News Tonight". abcnews.go.com. May 17, 2001.

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• When people say I'm powerful, it scares me in a way. If you saw what I see when I wake up in the morning, you wouldn't think that either.

  Britney Spears

  Morning, Powerful, Thinking

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• The most interesting - in fact, inspiring - people I met there [Porto Alegre] are those who remain nameless: representatives of the international campesino movement, the East Timorese delegation,... - the usual heroes, who disappear, unknown, apart from the consequences of their work.

  Noam Chomsky

  Hero, Interesting, Usual

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• The skill of the politician consists in guessing what people can be brought to think advantageous to themselves; the skill of the expert consists in calculating what really is advantageous, provided people can be brought to think so.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Skills, Experts

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.109, Psychology Press

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• There are two ways of destroying a people. Either condemn them en bloc or force them to repudiate the leaders they adopted. The second is the worse.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Two, Leader, Way

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1960). “Loser wins: (Les séquestrés d'Altona : a play in five acts”

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• The common people feel themselves oppressed by the grasping of some, and their vanity is flattered by others. Fired with evil passions, they are no longer willing to submit to control, but demand that everything be subject to their authority. The invariable result is that government assumes the noble names of free and popular, but becomes in fact the most execrable thing, mob rule.

  Polybius

  Passion, Names, Vanity

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• Everybody has a great deal of experience in living. But no one lives in anything like the highest style of the art; and it is very disconcerting to notice how badly one lives in the sense of the extent to which fatigue and other discomforts are connected with one's important dealings with other people.

  Harry Stack Sullivan

  Art, Style, Important

  Harry Stack Sullivan (2013). “The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry”, p.3, Routledge

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