Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom of speech.
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
People are losing jobs, people need to be entertained, and I want to make movies that parents and children can look forward to seeing, that can become a kind of family ritual.
For some people, home is family and their mom's house or their girl or whatever, and I have those experiences as well, but the biggest thing for me is Chicago.
'Family Guy' has this weird thing of attracting people. People either hate it or can't get enough of it. There's really no one in between.
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
You have to keep the business side together as well as the creative side. We have constantly surprised people and stayed with bands until they have grown on people.
When I started working on Southwest Airlines, I kid you not, only people flying on business and very wealthy people ever flew.
If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic.
There's a real cowardice in the movie business. If you don't meet the right crazy people, you can't do it.
People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
I'm all for sharing music, but when people can download a whole record and pay nothing for it and then they share it with 100,000 other people, it's breaking down the whole business.
I've been married to the same man - even after the separation - longer than most people in this business. I'm sick to death of people mentioning it.
What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'
There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.
In the military, they give medals for people who are willing to sacrifice themselves so that others may survive. In business, we give bonuses to people who sacrifice others.
The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.
There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it.
