People famous quotes
Last updated: Jul 22, 2024
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
As a pastor, I have a deep desire to lead people to God and encourage people to pray, read the Bible, and carry their faith into every part of their lives.
-- Adam Hamilton -
In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range
-- Adam Johnson -
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But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done.
-- Adam Johnson -
I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand.
-- Adam Jones -
I believe that when people say something is impossible, it's only impossible because a strategy has not been found yet.
-- Adam Khoo -
About 70 percent of the district was new. It was a short amount of time to get to know hundreds and thousands of people. But with the help and support of old friends, we built a grassroots operation organically from the ground up.
-- Adam Kinzinger -
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People want to talk about whether I have rock cred, whether I'm selling out, the theatricality, the gay stuff... Chill out! And just enjoy yourself.
-- Adam Lambert -
A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.
-- Adam Lambert -
I want to upset people, I want to make people think, I want to keep people interested.
-- Adam Lambert -
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I try to go throughout my daily life just as if nothing has changed, but you don't have much anonymity anymore, which feels really good. People come up, and say hi and they enjoy your work.
-- Adam Lambert -
Frightening for many artists is promoting themselves. They feel it is... artificial and not what we want to be known for. Yet if we start thinking about what we do as important and important to offer to people, not to sell... it allows us to shift the way we think about promoting ourselves.
-- Adam Leipzig -
How do I get it made? How do I get it seen? How do I get it in front of the people I want to serve?
-- Adam Leipzig -
Artists don't like the business side. None of us were born understanding money. We all had to learn how to do it. So it's just something creative people need to get familiar with... not really so scary.
-- Adam Leipzig -
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Some people don't like confidence. They resent confidence.
-- Adam Levine -
I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.
-- Adam Levine -
That's not true. I did not have sexual intercourse with Lindsay Lohan. ... A lot of people probably did, I don't know, [but I did not].
-- Adam Levine -
I spend most of my life naked. In fact, I often have to be told by the people around me that it's inappropriate to be as naked as I am. But I live in California, where it's always warm, so why not?
-- Adam Levine -
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There comes a point in your life when you realize: Who matters, Who never did, Who won't anymore, And who always will. So, don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.
-- Adam Lindsay Gordon -
Don't worry about people from your past there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.
-- Adam Lindsay Gordon -
There's nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
-- Adam McKay -
There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.
-- Adam McKay -
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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
-- Adam McKay -
Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
-- Adam McKay -
I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
-- Adam McKay -
This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
-- Adam Osborne -
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There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.
-- Adam Osborne -
The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.
-- Adam Osborne -
The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.
-- Adam Osborne -
I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.
-- Adam Osborne -
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I moved around a lot as a kid, and when you're always entering new places at that age, you kind of have to learn how to adapt yourself, and I felt a really powerful way to do that was to make people laugh.
-- Adam Pally -
At around 19 I realized that I really didn't have any skills other than making people laugh, so I should probably pursue it full-time.
-- Adam Pally -
I am open to doing anything. I don't think in this day and age that, aside from two or three people, there isn't an actor who can just do one thing. I also think you can go back and forth between film and television pretty seamlessly.
-- Adam Pally -
Anytime I audition for something, it's always a question of whether or not the people I'm auditioning for understand I'm an improviser and I like to do that, and if they like that or if they just want someone who's going to do what's written.
-- Adam Pally -
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People, when they come up to me, are like, Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp? And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.
-- Adam Pally -
In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever. The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit. And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet; we're so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.
-- Adam Rapp -
One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.
-- Adam Rapp -
Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we're a heavy rock band. We're definitely not a metal band, but we're a band that focuses on meaningful lyrics and melody.
-- Adam Rich -
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I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that.
-- Adam Rich -
You don't want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label really support your band and the music and stuff.
-- Adam Rich -
After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through.
-- Adam Rickitt -
There is a real diversity of talent and background on the A list so as to better reflect our society in all walks. There are people who have been candidates before, Councillors, Doctors, business leaders, charity campaigners.
-- Adam Rickitt -
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People think of travel, of movement, as a kind of reprieve from life. But they're wrong. Movement isn't a reprieve. There is no reprieve. Movement is our permanent state.
-- Adam Ross -
I do love the films I've done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we're trying to make people laugh and I'm very proud of that.
-- Adam Sandler -
I don't want to run around with new people. I feel safer with my friends.
-- Adam Sandler -
You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know,' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it, but I'm not.
-- Adam Sandler -
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I don't know who I touch and who I don't. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don't have any secrets. I don't know the reasons I've been so well received.
-- Adam Sandler -
How do I speak Spanish? Not too well. Paz taught me a few words that, if people weren't nice to me, I could tell them a few things. I got to study with [chef] Thomas Keller, who we all love as a guy and Jim had a relationship with him at [his restaurant] the French Laundry.
-- Adam Sandler -
We are always works in progress. You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest. This is called being a human and it happens to everyone.
-- Adam Savage -
The skeptical community is absolutely near and dear to the 'Mythbusters' heart and there's no small reason that they've embraced us. That's our people. That's the way we like to think.
-- Adam Savage -
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There's this group online that I frequent. It's a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it's people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.
-- Adam Savage -
Walking the floor at a con dressed as Chewbacca, you might as well be Bono. I mean it's ridiculous. People just walk up and grab you and hold you, because they love Chewbacca so much.
-- Adam Savage -
So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people. Let us have a moral victory that can shine as a light to all nations.
-- Adam Schiff -
Not that anyone minds--no one's paying attention to the music. Most of them never really listen to music. Practically no one actually does. Even at concerts people pay good money for, instead of a three-dollar cover charge, they talk through the whole thing. I feel sorry for them, since none of them understand what it's like to have a song just get into your soul and become your whole world. They don't know what it's like when a song changes your life.
-- Adam Selzer -
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In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like compound interest. Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people.
-- Adam Smith -
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
-- Adam Smith -
With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
-- Adam Smith -
The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in what is their daily fare... On the contrary, in the countries which, either from excessive heat or cold, produce no grapes, and where wine consequently is dear and a rarity, drunkenness is a common vice.
-- Adam Smith -
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The problem with breaking up with someone, if you are a little unsure — and so often, people are unsure — is that breaking up involves persuasion. You have to persuade your ex that it is better this way for everyone. And this is difficult if you have not entirely persuaded yourself. It is especially tricky to do this if you are also naked, and making two cups of coffee.
-- Adam Thirlwell -
How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture? It's been very rewarding. I'm not getting the 20 million bucks for the new movies, but at least I'm getting warmth and recognition from people wherever I go.
-- Adam West -
Everybody has a responsibility for what they put out into the world. Rather than trying to figure out what other people should be doing, work on your own interactions in the world and whatever influence they have. All of it has an effect.
-- Adam Yauch -
I think every person has the ability to affect change...through our every thought our every word, the way that we interact with other people. We are constantly affecting the world.
-- Adam Yauch -
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People need to be more aware of how they're affecting people.
-- Adam Yauch -
When I was a small boy, old people used to squat down to my eye level and ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, to which my answer was invariably, "a pirate." Their stunned silence was always very reassuring.
-- Adam Young -
Someone invent a NO LIFE alert so you can push a button and tons of people show up and hang out with you.
-- Adam Young -
A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image.
-- Ade Edmondson -
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There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.
-- Ade Edmondson -
From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour.
-- Ade Edmondson -
We had so much fun in Ghana and they are really lovely people.
-- Ade Edmondson -
The motion picture is the people's Art.
-- Adela Rogers St. Johns -