People Quotes

I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.

80% of your problems are not PEOPLE problems … they are SYSTEM problems, because systems create the behaviors of people.

People always think I’m taller than I am – not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It’s all relatively streamlined.

I don’t really check out other people’s butts.

I think that I just need to work with great directors and actors, people who are better than me, so that I am challenged.

The happiest people are the ones who don’t try to define happiness.

There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.

You’ve gotta really touch people to move them to buy your records.

Never underestimate the joy people derive from hearing something they already know.

It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn’t matter’.