People Quotes - Page 36

• What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.

  Naomie Harris

  Home, Offering, Generosity

  "Naomie Harris Interview The First Grader". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 11, 2011.

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• As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.

  Naomie Harris

  Culture, Debt, Mindset

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• I'm shocked at how early everything closes here. But people start earlier. I miss the late nightlife in NYC, but then again I sing and burn so much energy in the show that it's probably good - I get to go home and sleep.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Home, Sleep, Nightlife

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• With the Tonys it's a little tricky because a lot of the funnier jokes are more insider, so people watching at home may not get a Julie Taymor reference the way that New Yorkers would. So you have to figure out what comedy plays to a large audience and still respect the individuals who are there.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Home, Play, May

  "Tonys 2012: Q&A with Neil Patrick Harris on Eve of His Hosting Three-peat". Interview with David Rooney, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 6, 2012.

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• I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in any deep sense about morality, or with regard to what they value in life. I think this doubt about the application of science and reason to questions of value is really quite dangerous.

  Sam Harris

  Thinking, Doubt, Encounters

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. October 11, 2010.

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• It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska.

  Sam Harris

  Mother, Children, Alaska

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• Most people believe that the Creator of the universe wrote (or dictated) one of their books. Unfortunately, there are many books that pretend to divine authorship, and each makes incompatible claims about how we all must live.

  Sam Harris

  Believe, Book, Divine

  "Science Must Destroy Religion" by Sam Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2006.

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• Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Real, Guarantees That

  "The Politics of Ignorance" by Sam Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 2, 2005.

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• You know, I'm not really any good at working out when people are flirting with me. And I think I'm too flirtatious with people I'm trying not to flirt with! What I am good at is making people feel uncomfortable. I don't want to but it always ends up happening!

  Josh Hartnett

  Flirting, Thinking, Work Out

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• I admire when people take the harder path, not because they are masochistic and want to beat themselves up, but because you actually kind of learn more and I think you grow more.

  Josh Hartnett

  Thinking, Want, Path

  "Josh Hartnett Interview - RESURRECTING THE CHAMP". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 21, 2007.

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• Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right.

  Steve Harvey

  Running, Thinking, Office

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have seen some crazy people do some crazy things on my variety show. I have to stop and ask them a lot of the time, just how they figured out that they could do the things that they do, some of it is just plain freaky.

  Steve Harvey

  Crazy, Freaky, Shows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you'd asked me then if I saw how big "The Steve Harvey Morning Show" was going to be, I couldn't tell you. But I knew I could reach people not as a character but as Steve Harvey, because although I tell jokes for a living, I've also lived, and I think I can relate to you more than you know.

  Steve Harvey

  Morning, Character, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To be No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, well, that's alarming. Having been a stand-up comedian, I think it's surprising to a lot of people that I had the insight I had.

  Steve Harvey

  New York, Thinking, Comedian

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• But most of all, I'm a part of you people out there who have listened to me, because especially you people in Michigan, you Tiger fans, you've given me so much warmth, so much affection and so much love.

  Ernie Harwell

  Fans, Michigan, Affection

  Ernie Harwell (1986). “Tuned to Baseball”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• Also I'm a part of the people that I've worked with in baseball that have been so great to me, Mr. Earl Mann of Atlanta, who gave me my first baseball broadcasting job.

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Jobs, Atlanta

  Ernie Harwell (1986). “Tuned to Baseball”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• Celebrity means that I can affect people in a positive way.

  David Hasselhoff

  Mean, Way, I Can

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• I think people know that I've got a good heart.

  David Hasselhoff

  Heart, Thinking, Knows

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• I let people down easy with inspiration.

  David Hasselhoff

  Inspiration, Easy

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• Image is what people perceive my life to be. It's nothing like the truth.

  David Hasselhoff

  Perceive

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• I love it when people are able to interpret thoughts and feelings on fabric or some kind of material.

  Anne Hathaway

  Feelings, Fabric, Able

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• If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

  Vaclav Havel

  Jobs, Honesty, Hero

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• I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them.

  Zahi Hawass

  Running, Egypt, Media

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• Right now the only people I can really fall in love with are people who don't really, truly want me around. Now why do I do that?

  Ethan Hawke

  Falling In Love, Want, Right Now

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• I think having nature be a part of people's lives helps all of us see ourselves as part of something larger.

  Ethan Hawke

  Thinking, Helping

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