Quotes and Sayings About People
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I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.
-- Adam Carolla -
I'm not comically oriented. I get angry and I start complaining and then people start laughing. I don't even want them to laugh half the time.
-- Adam Carolla -
Rich people don't pay taxes? Of course they pay taxes - they pay tons in taxes. They pay for everyone else who doesn't pay taxes.
-- Adam Carolla -
When I say things that sound insane, like only the smartest million people should have the right to vote, well, I mean that.
-- Adam Carolla -
There is no future for a people who deny their past.
-- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. -
You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.
-- Adam Cooper -
People want to be friends with someone who likes to have a good time.
-- Adam DeVine -
Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.
-- Adam Driver -
The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.
-- Adam Driver -
I loved being in the Marine Corps, I loved my job in the Marine Corps, and I loved the people I served with. It's one of the best things I've had a chance to do.
-- Adam Driver -
But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
-- Adam Duritz -
There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.
-- Adam Duritz -
That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.
-- Adam Duritz -
I'm working harder now than ever before. I couldn't turn down the BBC job because I've never been offered the opportunity of killing three or four people on screen before!
-- Adam Faith -
Any honest conversation about engaging young people must address discrimination against young people.
-- Adam Fletcher -
Young people and adults need equitable relationships-they do not need equal ones.
-- Adam Fletcher -
Young people often serve as scapegoats for the challenges communities face. At the same time, they are routinely pushed away from connecting to their communities as serious problem-solvers capable of changing the world.
-- Adam Fletcher -
The outcome of this culture of discrimination is that young people are routinely denied the roles in society they can, should, and need to be occupying.
-- Adam Fletcher -
Dropping out of school is the ultimately caused by discrimination against young people in schools.
-- Adam Fletcher -
Most of society's decision making for young people happens without young people, and that could not happen without adultcentrism.
-- Adam Fletcher -
Adultism leads to a phenomenon of little adults, who are young people who are treated as adults-in-the-making. A non-discriminatory perspective would be to treat children and youth as whole and complete people right now.
-- Adam Fletcher -
Like a pet fish unaware of the fishbowl it lives in, each of us inherently discriminates against young people without knowing it.
-- Adam Fletcher -
I don't care if people think I'm gay. I know I'm not, so it doesn't bother me.
-- Adam Garcia -
People do more important jobs than acting in film that should be recognised, but for some reason it's big money, so people are elevated in status. If I was a bus driver, I'm sure you wouldn't be interviewing me.
-- Adam Garcia -
So thirsty," Jack groaned. "So worried,"said the frog. I hope we don't starve to death." "Yes,"said Jill, "not starving to death would be nice." "So would not thirsting to death," said Jack "Thirsting isn't even a word," said Jill "It isn't?" "No." "Then what's the word?" "I dont know. You just can't." "Oh." This is, of course, the kind of inane conversation that occurs when people are slowly losing their minds.
-- Adam Gidwitz -
There is this weird thing that happens, when you stop worrying so much about what other people think of you...you suddenly start seeing what you think of you.
-- Adam Gidwitz -
Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision†in America-more than six million-than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.
-- Adam Gopnik -
I think that we're always drawn - particularly sophisticated people - are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
-- Adam Gopnik -
People tend to have one of three 'styles' of interaction. There are takers, who are always trying to serve themselves; matchers, who are always trying to get equal benefit for themselves and others; and givers, who are always trying to help people.
-- Adam Grant -
The more I help out, the more successful I become. But I measure success in what it has done for the people around me. That is the real accolade.
-- Adam Grant
