David Maraniss
Related Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON JACK WELCH Some people are [jerks]. They have to work at it. I was just born that way. DALE LINDSEY DEYTH BANGER MILLIE BOBBY BROWN ARUNDHATI ROY Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU I hope it's not all I'll ever do, but I know I've played enigmatic characters. For me, t... AIDAN GILLEN DEYTH BANGER Special teams is a man's game. Not that offense and defense isn't, but you've got to work and you've... DANNY SMITH It could be that people just want to be connected to something that's bigger than they are that ... DWIGHT SCHULTZ WILL ARNETT I like playing characters that are complex, that are intriguing, that come from left field, that do ... PETE POSTLETHWAITE Talk radio around Boston is brutal, and I think that's part of what goes on is that people as th... TOM HEINSOHN JACK WELCH RUSSELL SIMMONS HENRY ROLLINS You know how when people lose their grandma or grandpa, people they say they're sorry? They do m... AMAURY NOLASCO CECELIA AHERN There are so few roles out there. And even if it is a film that could be led by a black actress, how... OCTAVIA SPENCER VIDAL SASSOON WILLIAM J. CLINTON What's positive is moving from a place of growing in faith to really feeling more grounded in fa... DAVID GREGORY JOAN DIDION AL FRANKEN We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD MIKE NICHOLS BRYSON TILLER KEVIN HART MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY If you know people who are suicidal, or if you know people who are bipolar, depressed, have panic at... ERIC MILLEGAN GILLIAN FLYNN The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever... DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE It's a hard thing to do, to be given a script, and know that you've got to turn up on the fi... EMILY MORTIMER ZOSIA MAMET CHUCK PALAHNIUK JAY-Z CHARLIE KAUFMAN I know that some people shy away from what I say. They think it is too blunt, but when you don't... MISSY ELLIOTT In this job, you're going to make decisions. You'll say things that some people are going to... ALBERTO GONZALES DEYTH BANGER MICHAEL BLOOMBERG Mysterious can be cool, if you're in Hollywood and everyone's happy. But it can be really ba... LLOYD BLANKFEIN DALAI LAMA DEYTH BANGER It's a joyful, humbling feeling to be in different places around the planet, and people have see... SCOTT BAKULA I think people are just haters. When they see people doing well, some people, if there's somethi... ALANA BLANCHARD TOM BRADY It's surreal working with people you admire. I don't think it ever goes away, no matter how ... MAX MINGHELLA I think the most challenging part of being a performer is just making sure that people know that whe... KATE VOEGELE J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Some of my fans don't really like it when I respond to people who say things that are trying to ... RICKIE FOWLER RAINBOW ROWELL ELON MUSK CHRISTOPHER LEE I don't write a whole lot about one person that exists in reality; it's usually characterist... JASON ISBELL DAVID BRIN DEYTH BANGER These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive pla... CATHERINE KEENER I believe that there is an important part of every human being that is defined in terms of their sig... ANGELES MASTRETTA I always thought there were some people who were just destined to be disengaged in their jobs becaus... TOM RATH I think it's definitely beneficial for these characters to have good acting voices behind them a... TARA STRONG I think it's definitely beneficial for these characters to have good acting voices behind them and i... TARA STRONG AVA DELLAIRA JULIA ROBERTS People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth t... HAL SPARKS Between the natural way and the path of grace there is a deep abyss. It is in that gap that we live ... HAIM SHAPIRA DORIS LESSING The characters in my stories all have quite loud lives in my head. It's a relief to get them on ... RACHEL JOYCE Some of the faces that remain are those that Jon felt could do that job best. He wasn't going to rep... IVETTE MENDEZ ROBERT GRIFFIN III SAM ROCKWELL MAC MILLER BOBBY BOWDEN Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people wil... WAYNE NEWTON It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that the... ZELJKO IVANEK This story could be about how hard this is. I don't think people know what kind of work this takes, ... JAMES FERGUSON Some people think that there aren't many Aboriginal actors around, and if there are, they're... DEBORAH MAILMAN ALEX STEFFEN What I've been surprised by is not how different people are, but how similar they are. There are... BRIAN CHESKY There are a lot of things that people go through, and maybe they don't know how to get through i... SABRINA CARPENTER Gaming has been a great way to get to know people. That's part of what I love about games, that ... RICH SOMMER And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how the... LAURA INNES It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never conside... RYAN PHILLIPPE I can take all the negative energy and turn it into a positive simply by purging my soul through mus... BOW WOW NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON RUSH LIMBAUGH 28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems. JAMES C. DOBSON MIA FARROW I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system... LEE TERGESEN CAITLYN JENNER On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss ... ZE FRANK I think the joy of any soap opera is it is always there. You are allowed into this world for a littl... AMANDA DONOHOE Some stresses are unavoidable - it's just part of life. One of the things I do to avoid stress i... DAN HILL VIN DIESEL People are fans of Dunkin' Donuts. They have a relationship with the company, they go there ever... EVAN WILLIAMS I know there are people, if I go into a market or a city for the first time, there are people that a... JEFF DANIELS SHAHID KHAN KATHERINE BOO
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CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They co... 
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A lot of people say to me, 'Stay grounded; be humble.' David Schwimmer was just like, 'Y... 
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...So to be fast to don't be long and to try to be short... If you want to play the best game, creat... 
It's very rare that people are exactly who they appear to be. 
Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thous... 
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I always take a story that's kind of out there, like an urban myth. I take some possibility that... 
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If you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of change is how many... 
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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lesson... 
Stand-up comedy is a very hard thing on the spirit. There are people who transcend it, like Jack Ben... 
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Some people are jerks, and some people aren't. 
There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, 'Oh, you're playing yourself.' I gues... 
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I treat people based on who they really are, not the name. Everyone has to be respectful and be a hu... 
I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fiction... 
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When I came into office, people said, 'Billionaire? How do they live? What do they eat? How do t... 
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It’s just... everything. There are too many people. And I don’t fit in. I don’t know how to be... 
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Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable. 
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