Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daisaku Ikeda

All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.

Daisaku Ikeda

When we care for others our own strength to live increases. When we help people expand their state of life, our lives also expand. Actions to benefit others are not separate from actions to benefit oneself. Our lives and the lives of others are ultimately inseparable.

Daisaku Ikeda

People who are rooted in the here and now, who are not defeated by their limitations, who don’t compare themselves to others, who confidently advance along their chosen path-such people are happy, such people are truly great.

Condola Rashad

I've realized that a lot of people go to see film or theater with a different expectation. I have a friend who's an actor and I can't stand watching movies with him because he never quite allows himself to just watch the story. He'll comment on the lighting, he'll comment on the [camera] angle. I'm not saying there's a wrong way to watch it - maybe that's helpful to him - but to me, you're getting way too caught up in the technical aspects.

Condola Rashad

When I'm in Los Angeles, sometimes I hesitate saying that I'm an actor because people are like, "Of course you are." And I'm like "No, not, 'Of course I am.'"

Condola Rashad

I wanted to become an actor and I knew that if I was really going to do it, I needed the training. I was not one of those people that was like, "I got it." I was like, "No, I don't have it yet. I need work. I need help fixing myself."

Concha Buika

Hope is for people who wait. And I don't want to wait no more. I'm not scared anymore. I'm not scared of myself. Of my things. Of my fear. Of absolutely nothing. And that's music.

Conan O'Brien

Earlier today, John McCain was in the news. John McCain gave his first press conference since the election. And he said, 'For a lot of people, Sarah Palin was an energizing factor during the campaign.' Unfortunately for McCain, those people are called Democrats.

Condoleezza Rice

Your friends and your family, if you're close to them, they won't let you get too far from who you were or from who you are. And so I love staying close to people who've always known me. That's probably the best leavening that you could possibly have.

Condoleezza Rice

Everybody in the world is capable of democratic development. Some people in the world are unlucky enough to get stuck with really bad political leadership and with really bad political institutions.

Condoleezza Rice

I'm a huge proponent of exchanges, student exchanges, cultural exchanges, university exchanges. We talk a lot about public diplomacy, .. It's extremely important that we get our message out, but it's also the case that we should not have a monologue with other people. It has to be a conversation, and you can't do that without exchanges and openness.

Condoleezza Rice

It takes courage to set priorities because doing so is an admission that American policy cannot be all things to all people - or rather to all interest groups

Condoleezza Rice

We have had some bad incidents and there continue to be allegations of others which will be investigated; but overwhelmingly American forces there, putting their lives on the line every day, protecting Iraqis, helping to liberate them, that is appreciated by the Iraqi people and by the Prime Minister.

Condoleezza Rice

Most of the people who were responsible for 9/11 are now in custody or have been killed. But there are others, and they plot and they plan, and they hope to pull it off again. And while we have to be right 100 percent of the time, they only have to be right once. So there's no way to overreact to that.

Condoleezza Rice

This is the democratic process at work, What you're seeing with this process is the Iraqi people embracing American-style democracy.

Cole Hamels

Being young and being first-round picks and everything, people look up to you and look for you to lead. It's something Brett and I are able to do, and we can use each other to help each other out.

Coleman Hawkins

Some of my biggest moments have been in jam sessions, but I don't want to talk about them. There were always other people involved.

Coco Lee

People have to respect intellectual property.

Coco Lee

They cannot imagine what I'll sound like. But always when I'm done singing, people are very surprised.

Sammi Hanratty

Every time I work on a new set, I take whatever I can from it and learn as much as I can around the people who I am working with.

Every time I take a soak in a warm tub, ... I think of all the people in the shelter who can't even take a bath.

But nowadays hymns are the norm, because people don't have much else to sing.

Andrew Cuomo

Very few people go into politics to be reviled.

Amy Heckerling

I've always tried to figure out what people think of themselves and what they think they're projecting.

Amy Heckerling

I'd rather see what young people are going through than see things explode.

Amy Sedaris

People that know me know that I cook. I cook every night.

Andre Leon Talley

What's that show? 'TMZ'? They stand there and say, 'I've got this on this person.' The focus on celebrities can be detrimental because people could be thinking of other things, but it's a part of the culture and it's what sells.

Alexandra Stoddard

Unhappy people make me feel like I've done something wrong.

Alexandra Stoddard

I like people to really get a feel for the house before they do anything to it.

Alice Waters

People have become aware that way that we've been eating is making us sick.

Amanda Seyfried

You learn very quickly what people are so enamored with, and it's not necessarily me.

Peter Morton

People come to my places to eat dinner with their friends, not with me.

I wonder if people really know what the definition of crowd-funding is. Or, if there's even an agreed upon definition of what it is.