Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Rickman

Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something.

Alan Moore

It doesn't do you any service to demonize any group of people. It's much better to try and understand from the inside.

Alan Moore

I am not saying people should not be free to join whichever reason they choose but should we be forced to live our lives around a belief system that originated somewhere around the fourth or fifth century BC. I cannot see any more reason to base a belief system around Christianity, Judaism or Islam than I can around Lord of the Rings.

Alan Moore

As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other.

Alan Jackson

If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world - all you hear about on the news is all the bad stuff everyday, but what was refreshing to me was after that, you saw how many good people there are out there. For every one bad one, there's a thousand good ones.

Alan Greenspan

This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets. Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.

Alan Bullock

The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.

Almost all the bars in Southeast Asia are lady bars. The listener and participants who interact and frequent the clubs are exclusively male who become actively involved with the ladies, not the music. Coming to them to listen only to the music is not what people do.

Alan Bradley

Whenever I'm with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.

Alan Bradley

The very best people are like that. They don't entangle you like flypaper.

Alan Bersin

Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.

Alan Ayckbourn

There are very few people on top of life, and the rest of us don't like them very much.

Alain Robert

I make good money: One speech nets me more than what most people make in six months.

Alain Robert

People need to learn to live with more risk.

Alain Robert

There is a percentage of people who want to be a little bit outside their comfort zone and I am one of them, someone who lives on the edge.

Alan Arkin

There's a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me. People want a relationship with you that they haven't earned.

Alan Alda

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

Alan Alda

I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.

Alan Alda

Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

Al Purdy

At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you.

Al Ries

Everyone is interested in what‘s new. Few people are interested in what‘s better.

Al Sharpton

People in the age of [President] Obama don't dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That's for sure.

Al Pacino

I'm always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain't bad. You can meet people on it.

Al Pacino

I didn't go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.

Al Pacino

The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.

Al Pacino

That's the way to live - around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.

Al Jourgensen

I love doing film soundtracks and working with directors on how they want the scene to be portrayed on audio as opposed to visual. I like the collaborative effort of working with people.

Al Hirschfeld

I never know what to tell young people when they come here. It could never happen for anyone they way it happened for me. It was all an accident.

Al Leiter

You put deadlines on people you really don't want, because that's how you feel about them.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

We want all the Palestinians back in their homeland, and then there can be a fair referendum for people to choose the form of state they want. Whoever gets the majority can rule.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

The problem is that the Iraqi people are facing atrocities from both sides - Zarqawi and also the American troops at times. The Zarqawi groups uses car bombs, the Americans use other bombs. You also know what they do in the prisons.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

The important matter is freedom. When the people choose what they want, it is good for them and for us.

Akhmad Kadyrov

The people have already determined Chechnya's status at the referendum - it is a unit of the Russian Federation. Its political status is not to be discussed any more.