- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
People Quotes
Quotes about people, privacy, and human nature.
This page collects quotes touching on people in different senses - novelists describing how characters take on independent vitality, and technologists warning how easily people's movements and data can be tracked. It's a broader mix than a single theme, much like Like Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Question
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- Nov 07, 2020
When somebody says I wanted to be an astronaut my question is 'Did you apply?' And most people say no. And to me that's a self-elimination.
- Space
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- Nov 07, 2020
You get this overview effect where you realize how small we are and how fragile our planet is and how we're really all in it together. You don't see borders from space, you don't see diversity and differences in people on Earth.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love documentaries and the computer. I am a little addicted to the computer, and that relaxes me. I find information, I shop, and I look up people I worked with to find out if they're dead or alive.
- Great Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started to respect older actors when I was young and then contemporary actors later on. Then I learned respect for comedy. When I was first doing theatre, I thought of it as just a means to become Sarah Bernhardt or someone like that. But acting with young people has been a great learning experience.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
There should be a democracy of voices in literature. There are people who live with a kind of striving and with a certain kind of tenderness - it's not an unusual thing - and maybe that's not written about enough.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a great time to do a show, at Christmas time. People are by and large in a Christmas frame of mind.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people want to put you in a slot. They want to categorize you. So I fought that, because I liked all different kinds of music.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
No. I'm not. Nor have I ever been, although I know there are people who thought I was. I do have a lot of women friends, but none of them is gay, nor have they ever been.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had to sing. I couldn't not sing. If it was singing to a living room full of people or an auditorium, it didn't matter. I had to sing. I was meant to sing.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't call myself any kind of singer. I leave that to other people because there are plenty out there who're quick to do that.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were into The Mills Brothers, Perry Como, Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Sarah Vaughn, and all those people sung the most wonderful songs - and even when I got into rock 'n' roll, that stayed with me.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to look out and perform in front of people who are drunk. I did that when I was playing little clubs.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are going to a place like Pugwash and that whole area to escape from industry, to have the serenity of the surroundings and the beauty.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know what I find truly amazing? I haven't had a hit record since the mid-'80s, and still people show up to pack up the places I'm playing.
- Folks
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do duets with folks like Randy Goodman, Aaron Neville, Bryan Adams, people like that.
- Fading
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- Nov 07, 2020