All Quotes

People say free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it's the lowering of trade barriers that causes the dislocation.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.
‐‐ Mark Ruffalo

People say, 'Gee, you do a lot of mafia movies.' I think I've done two, out of 60.
‐‐ James Caan

People say, 'Gee, you don't really do political music.' Well, I sing a lot of songs about how men and women and lovers treat each other, and none of us want to be talked down to or belittled or ignored or disrespected... So I'm proud to be a feminist.
‐‐ Bonnie Raitt

People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same. We've obviously made some changes. When we started, it was all about food, clothing and shelter. Now we watch 'Top Chef', 'Project Runway', and 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.'
‐‐ Colin Hay

People say, 'How can you stay in a play for a long time?' I say, 'The audience is never the same.'
‐‐ Marian Seldes

People say how come I'm from Scotland yet I sound like the Queen?! I went to boarding school in Somerset, which has probably got something to do with it.
‐‐ Rose Leslie

People say, 'How's the record doing?' In the old days you'd say, 'We're at 600,000, it's doing great.' You don't say those things anymore. Those numbers are gone.
‐‐ Christopher Cross

People say I am against Darwin. That is ridiculous.
‐‐ Lynn Margulis

People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
‐‐ Ingvar Kamprad

People say I am mad. I am not mad. I am trying to heal my soul.
‐‐ Alejandro Jodorowsky

People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
‐‐ Robert Kennedy

People say I am stuck in childhood, but it's not that. I remember seeing a Matisse retrospective, and you could see he started out one way, and then he tried something different, and then he seemed to spend his whole life trying to get back to the first thing.
‐‐ Tim Burton

People say I am the king of painful shoes.
‐‐ Christian Louboutin

People say I am the king of painful shoes. I don't want to create painful shoes, but it is not my job to create something comfortable. I try to make high heels as comfortable as they can be, but my priority is design, beauty and sexiness. I'm not against them, but comfort is not my focus.
‐‐ Christian Louboutin

People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.
‐‐ Zaha Hadid

People say I don't write books, I make Christmas presents.
‐‐ Bryce Courtenay

People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.
‐‐ Nikki Sixx

People say, 'I know you, don't I?' And they expect me to say I know them from their daughter's school or something - they can't place me. And I love that. Long may it last.
‐‐ Lesley Manville

People say I look like a vampire. I don't know whether to take that as a compliment or not.
‐‐ Nathaniel Buzolic

People say I look like my father. My son is very much like him.
‐‐ Carine Roitfeld

People say I look so happy - and I say, 'That's the Botox.'
‐‐ Dolly Parton

People say I look younger than the music I'm doing just because the songs are older. Hopefully I can keep my youthful look!
‐‐ Natalie Cole

People say, 'I love 'Snatch,' I love 'Lock Stock,' but I want to be more than a movie name. I'd love to be more of a household name.
‐‐ Vinnie Jones

People say I'm a one-note actor, but the way I figure it, those other guys are just looking for that one right note.
‐‐ Joel McCrea

People say I'm bad at a lot of things. One I agree with is that I'm a bad driver.
‐‐ Alan Hansen

People say I'm controversial. But I think I lead a very balanced and normal life.
‐‐ Ricardo Salinas Pliego

People say I'm deceptively unassuming, but that's the way I go through life. I'm not flash. You can make it sound calculated, but it's pretty much just me.
‐‐ Louis Theroux

People say I'm difficult and sometimes that's a badge of honour.
‐‐ Bill Murray

People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
‐‐ Imelda Marcos

People say, 'I'm for job training. We can train people to increase the likelihood that they can be self-sufficient.' Okay, that's great, you're for job training - I like job training - but do you think the federal government should have 163 different job-training programs?
‐‐ Steve Largent

People say I'm henpecked. Well, let them say it.
‐‐ Gordie Howe

People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.
‐‐ Jennifer Weiner

People say I'm not world level, but I haven't fought at that class yet, so you can't say that until I have.
‐‐ Liam Smith

People say I'm shrill and strident.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say I'm a realist.
‐‐ Joan Baez

People say I'm the original Don Draper. I'm not Don Draper.
‐‐ George Lois

People say I'm the white Aretha Franklin. I wish I was her.
‐‐ Joss Stone

People say I'm tough and too blunt. I'm a product of my organization. MSF is a blunt, tough, no-nonsense organization.
‐‐ Joanne Liu

People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.
‐‐ Johnny Depp

People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk

People say I manipulate the media. Well, duh. We live in a media culture, so why on earth wouldn't I?
‐‐ Paul Watson

People say I owe a lot to television. The fact is I was a star long before television. What TV made me is unemployed.
‐‐ Milton Berle

People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at.
‐‐ Ridley Scott

People say I play real loud. I don't, actually. I'm recorded loud and a lot of that is because we have good engineers. Mick knows what a good drum sound is as well, so that's part of the illusion really. I can't play loud.
‐‐ Charlie Watts

People say I seem very negative about new music - well, if somebody asks me what I think of Keane, I'll tell 'em. I don't like 'em. I'll obviously take it a step too far and grossly insult the keyboard player's mam or summat, but I'm afraid that's just me.
‐‐ Noel Gallagher

People say I stole a lot of bases. I stole the bases for a reason. I crossed the plate.
‐‐ Rickey Henderson

People say I train dogs, but in many ways I train people.
‐‐ Cesar Millan

People say I've gone against Hollywood, but I've tried to be independent within Hollywood, tried to be my own person.
‐‐ Robert Redford