Too Many People Quotes

It evolved out of the idea to make a kids TV show. And it actually turned out to be a bit dull and a bit regulated and too many people looking over your shoulder and it wasn’t really.

In my living room – it’s probably going to be moved to my office soon because it freaks too many people out – I have a huge seven foot statue of ‘Seven of Nine’ of ‘Star Trek Voyager.’

I always get told by women that they would love a daughter-in-law like me. That’s big, because not too many people seem to want their son to marry an actress!

People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can’t sustain them.

Not too many people know what they want to do at 3 and then go do it.

There aren’t too many people out there who can start one of my books and not finish it. I don’t think too many writers can say that.

We need to start seeing privacy as a commons – as some kind of a public good that can get depleted as too many people treat it carelessly or abandon it too eagerly. What is privacy for? This question needs an urgent answer.

EDM is, like… Event-Driven Marketing, I think, is the acronym there. It reminds me a lot of disco. That had some hang-time, like, 10, 15, 17 years tops… Not too many people are forward-thinking about electronic music. They’re just kinda like, ‘Now, now, now – do it, do it.’

The players should appreciate how lucky they are with the opportunities they’ve got, and they’ve got to get out there and maximise that. That’s what success is about and unfortunately in British tennis there are too many people over the years who haven’t maximised their potential.

Too many people feel that where you start out dictates where you should end up. I was on welfare and just shy of 19 when my first daughter was born, but I was encouraged to take advantage of my ability and drive and remained in school.

Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn’t do anything-or that it doesn’t do enough.

I have seen too many people in my career think that there is some natural progression to life, with certain career milestones preceding whatever you may want in your personal life. Unfortunately, life doesn’t know it is supposed to follow a schedule.

Our broken immigration system has left too many people uncertain of whether they could be torn away from their homes, forced to leave their families, their communities, and their dreams behind.

The real problem with big issues like Medicare is that both parties have to be brave at the same time. Every pollster will tell you not to do that to get partisan advantage. Too many people here are willing to deliberately harm the country for partisan gain. That is borderline treason.

If I feel like if there’s a few too many people on that path with me, then I want to jump off and find another one.

I think too many people edit themselves way too soon. There’s plenty of time to edit, and it is a crucial part of it all, too.

The fans are the ones that really tell the tale, and I think they speak very loudly about where I stand in pro wrestling. I don’t think that there are too many people who would tell you that I don’t deserve to be there.

Too many people take New York for granted. The primary reason is that history is not taught. That’s outrageous in a city where the past is still visible.

Too many people think life is a yellow brick road. We learned that hardships make you better and that you have to adapt to your surroundings. And then you understand.

I’m accustomed to Internet forums where rudeness and incivility are the rule, where too many people seem to take pride in their insults.

No, it’s not easy as it seems sometimes, but hitting year 10 is definitely special because it’s not too many people that can do it, let alone do it at a high level.

Not too many people know that I sing.

I don’t want to write any more screenplays, I’ll tell you that right now. It’s a waste of time. You’ve got too many people who think they have the answer to a good screenplay and they don’t. No one knows.

Punk rock, to me, was always outsiderness. When I first saw large-group-scene punk rock, I was repelled by it, because there were way too many people who agreed with each other.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

Too many people are making images of war. If I want to see war, I’ll watch the news.

I give Reiki, which is energy, but I don’t tell too many people that.

In India, too many people do not write memoirs, but Natwar Singh and P. C. Alexander did.

Not too many people know what a pentathlon is or what’s involved, which is why visiting schools is good because they can learn about it at a young age and hopefully try it out.

Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it’s the oil of life.

Too many people don’t protect their smartphones with a password or PIN. I anticipate that Apple’s fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.

Our country deserves a party that isn’t afraid to say immigration is a good thing, or to say that Donald Trump is racist, or to admit that we have an economic system that is fundamentally broken for too many people and is breaking our planet too.

You don’t see too many people on a farm. I didn’t grow up dealing with a lot of people.

Faced with stress, too many people feel they have nowhere to turn to, that they don’t have access to the kind of friendships or communities where they can easily and openly share their problems and worries.

Not too many people in cocktail parties are aware of Bioprinting and growing organs, or the coming technological singularity; I’ve seen very little philosophical speculation about how far we can go, how much we could achieve.

Far too many people believe that they are owed some kind of ‘safe space’ from opposing ideas, and the fact is, that just isn’t true – and we shouldn’t allow people to say that it is true without correcting them.

The good thing about having a hit record is you don’t need too many people. Because now your record is on fire, and I already have a great team around me, so why run to the labels?

Too many people struggled, suffered, and died to make it possible for every American to exercise their right to vote.

If we were to expand Medicaid, for every uninsured person we would cover, we’d kick more than one person out of private insurance or remove their opportunity to get private insurance. We’re going to have too many people in the cart rather than pulling the cart.

Every party is the same, too many people, too little food, and you have to wait around. I’m extremely bored with parties.

In LA, too many people want to go the quickest route from A to B. Method acting offers them that.

I have never seen a ghost. But yes, I believe because I know too many people who have had experiences. When I lived in Notting Hill, I shared a flat with a mate who was convinced that there was a presence in our house.

I may not be able to outsmart too many people, but I can outwork ’em.

We live in an increasingly sophisticated world that makes it difficult to make simple comments on stuff. There are too many people on both sides of the border who are taking advantage of circumstances and the situation.

Honestly, being a 5’11” quarterback, not too many people think that you can play in the National Football League. And so for me, you know, I knew that my height doesn’t define my skill set, you know? I believed in my talent. I believed in what God gave me. I believed in the knowledge that I have of the game.

If too many people feel excluded from the system and cannot access its benefits, they will ultimately rebel against it.

Too many people go to university.

To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don’t have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention.

I wake up every day and I can’t wait to go to work, and that’s a gift. Not too many people have the opportunity to feel that way.

I worship God. Religion and worship are two different things to me. Religion is by the book. I think too many people rely on the textbook: ‘OK, it says to do this and it says to do that, so if I do this, this, and that, then I still can go out and do wrong because I did this, this, and that.’

Too many people I’ve loved dearly have left this earth. And some I’ve lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption.

Not too many people have my story. And this is my story: A guy goes from unknown to a Heisman Trophy finalist. He gets kicked out of school. He absolutely rebounds himself. He becomes a millionaire. He’s taking care of his family. And then he’s getting injured.

It’s not too many people who play the game harder than me.

I got into writing music when I was, like, 14 or 15. It was a very private thing for me because I used it as an outlet and emotional release. I kept it very close to myself and didn’t tell too many people about it.

Too many people are suffering from severe behavioral health and substance use issues on our streets, which puts a strain on our hospitals and our criminal justice system instead of treating the root cause.

I operated on too many people who could have avoided surgery if they’d simply made healthier choices earlier in life.

That’s the problem in life nowadays – too many people look at what they haven’t got. I just think: ‘I’ve got a beautiful wife, family, good friends, beautiful home. I don’t need anything. I won’t change nothing.’

The Bronx, I remember, was a very poor neighborhood, but that was all that immigrants could afford at that time. Life was tough. I grew up – my father didn’t have a job, but there weren’t too many people who did have jobs.

I’m just gonna keep doing what I do, and hopefully not make too many people mad.

In the area of economic justice, we still have a long way to go. We have too many people who are discriminated against just because they happen to be black or they happen to be a woman or some other minority.

Too many people don’t look at things objectively and try to see the facts; they instead look at them through their partisan lenses and try to figure out how to twist or spin them to fit their own ‘side.’

If you don’t learn constantly, you don’t grow, and you will wither. Too many people wither on the vine. Sure, it gets a little harder as you get older, but new experiences and new challenges keep it fresh.

I enjoyed my stay in the Congress. Most people do not. And too many people who have been elected really don’t understand the nature of government.

Too many people fought too hard to make sure all citizens of all colors, races, ethnicities, genders, and abilities can vote to think that not voting somehow sends a message.

I’ve never commercialized my music. I’ve seen that ruin too many people who think two-minute ditties are the answer.

Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.

I feel like being a 2019 XXL Freshman is just, it’s important for me because not too many women can say they’ve… gotten anything like this, not too many people from where I come from can say that they’ve gotten anything like this.

Yes, I’ve seen Louis CK. I wouldn’t in any way make a degrading remark about Louis CK, but the question is do I think anyone is funny? And the answer is not too many people. He might fit right in there.

I think what’s wrong with too many people is they’re too reserved. They’re miserable, but they don’t want to talk about it.

I haven’t met too many people that don’t intend to have a fulfilling life. High-achievers, however, end up allocating their resources in a way that seriously undermines their intended strategy.

For me, a big part of anxiety and depression was not knowing how to say ‘no’ and wanting to please too many people… part of this process is learning to draw the line and slow down.

It has to be about more than punishment. We need to rehabilitate people. We lock up far too many people in America today. We lock them up as if locking them up is gonna solve the problem. And locking them up does not solve the problem. Did locking me up make me better? No, it did not. It made my struggle harder.

I think too many people are offended by stuff that doesn’t matter.

People don’t contest that I’m British as a black man, but they do contest that I’m English. Too many people are going back to an ethnocentric idea of what being English means.

Arsenal showed the door to too many people. Why did they let Thierry Henry go? When I found out about his move I realised the Arsenal I played for were finished.

I don’t try to get all the meat off the bone. When I get a good figure, I just move something. Too many people try to hit the peak price, and they hold on until it is too late.

I can play every position in the secondary. And I can do everything – help run support, traveling, covering whoever is out there, small guy, big guy. I can play any type of coverage – blitz if I need to. There aren’t too many people who can do all of that.

There are too many people that depend on me. I’m too obligated. I’m in too far to get out.

I’ve taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren’t too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can.

The biggest problem in our government is that even those people who are there that are good and well-intended, there’s too many people in positions to write legislation who have never experienced the challenges of regular people.

When you mix a record that someone else is on, you’ve got to send it to them. They’ve got to like the mix, you got to like the mix, the producer’s got to like the mix. Too many people are involved!

I’m distraught as I look at my boys – two are African American and one is Caucasian – because too many people see them differently. None of them should have to think about how law enforcement will treat them if pulled over for rolling through a stop sign.

Don’t think because I’m a positive dude, I’m going to always say something nice. If you come at me crooked, one too many times or if too many people came at me crooked too many times in a row, then they’re going to get it. I don’t always exercise that self control and I don’t regret it either.

I think too many people take life too seriously. I’m having a ball!

Not too many people draw black people as well as I do.

Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.

I like L.A., but it’s just too many people in the same business everywhere you go. You lose perspective.

This is the real problem feminism faces. Too many people are willfully ignorant about what the word means and what the movement aims to achieve.

If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything in recent history, it is the unpredictability of war and that these things are easier to get into than to get out of, and, frankly, the facile way in which too many people talk about, ‘Well, let’s just go attack them.’

It’s crucial we make the case for institutions like Nato and the E.U. as foundations for the peace and prosperity we have enjoyed for decades – and which too many people appear to take for granted.

I’m not sure there are too many people who write what I write.

There aren’t too many people like me.

The simple truth is that America is locking up too many people, for too long, and spending too much money on them.

I’ve got my own philosophy. People who write books have different philosophies. You read too many people and you get screwed up.

Despite being commonplace, too many people with mental health problems still face stigma, prejudice and discrimination.

It’s good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know.

There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I’m my own person.

I missed a lot of family weddings and funerals because we were out on the road and had these big gigs, and you can’t pull out of these gigs at the last minute because too many people are counting on it. It got to the point where I was consumed with that.

At a time when too many people want to separate us by building walls, we here in Michigan are going to get back to building bridges together.

There’s no doubt that prog rock has an image problem: many musicians hate the label, and too many people associate it with 10-minute drum solos and the weirder bits of JRR Tolkien.

Ain’t nobody gonna come from where I come from, keep it real as I did and make it with the local Detroit sound that has never made it in the industry before. Where I’m going, I don’t feel like too many people from my city are going to blaze this trail.

If you’re lucky enough to have a pretty girl love you and share herself and sleep with you, make that your secret. The best way to spoil love is by talking to too many people about it.

You do get to a certain point in life where you have to realistically, I think, understand that the days are getting shorter, and you can’t put things off thinking you’ll get to them someday. If you really want to do them, you better do them. There are simply too many people getting sick, and sooner or later you will.

If you ask me what I think about going to work every day, it’s 9/11 and preventing another 9/11. There were too many people I knew.

The world’s problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom.

Too many people in the world associate democracy with their ability to go and buy more and more every year. I come from a country where it’s much more popular to remind people that democracy is available at every income level, and this is something which you need to protect.

I have no desire to be president of the United States. Zero desire. I don’t think that I would be electable. And there are far too many people that are far smarter than me to be president. I’d like to find one with some honor and integrity. I haven’t seen them yet, but they’ll show up.

I’m a yes person. I’m too concerned with trying to make too many people happy.

But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.

There’s too many people in the world.

I didn’t know too many people in life, not just in sports but in life, that were vegan, so it was something that I had to educate myself on fully before I could, one, do it myself, and, two, talk to others about it.

If I did everything, I probably wouldn’t be here talking to you. There aren’t too many people who can actually double me, so I do most of my stunts though.

I don’t get inspired by too many people because I like uniqueness. I’m a unique dude.

Too many people start their day like a five-alarm fire. Instead, I teach people to start their day a little earlier than they usually do, and urge them to take the time to prepare, to practise, so when you get to work, it’s show time and you’re at your best.

I feel like too many people on the West Coast, they’re too needy. They feel they need Snoop or Game. I never did any tracks with any West Coast artists. Not because I didn’t want to, but because I didn’t feel like that’s what I had to do in order to get on. I just did music.

Too many people are afraid to talk about the issue of race. We should be willing to address it, and more importantly, when it rears its ugly head, we should be willing to take a stand and try to stomp it out, whatever the action may be at a particular time.

I don’t know too many people who, when the TV announcer says, ‘Viewer discretion is advised’, then turn the TV off. Those are code words for, ‘Turn the sound up; this is gonna be really good.’

If it’s nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it’s very private and not too many people use it.

I love doing stand-up. It’s so self-contained – you go there, you do it, you go home – but with telly, there are too many people involved with it with opinions. You have a product, and everyone wants to change it.

Health care is much the same – the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people – and we must not shrink from the challenge.

I fell for my own hype. I had too many people saying I couldn’t be beat, and I actually fell for it.

Not too many people can afford for the wife to stay home and raise the kids.

There are far too many people who get up early in the morning, and work hard, who cannot make ends meet.

Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change.

For far too many people, the stigma around addiction prevents them from stepping forward for help.

Too many people feel stuck in the middle – not wealthy by any measure, but doing just well enough that the social safety net isn’t there for them. They feel left behind by a system that isn’t listening to them and an economy that isn’t rewarding them for their hard work.

I just see too many people retire and say, ‘I’m going to take off, travel, spend time with my family’ and they are just miserable. They end up dying. People who work and stay active, and like what they are doing, live longer.

I used to get a sort of sociophobia, and I still get it sometimes these days when I’m in a confined space with too many people. It’s not like I freak out or anything, it’s just that I’m far more comfortable in my own company sometimes than being surrounded by one thousand strangers.

I think that 20 years ago, not too many people would imagine a meeting – interesting meeting, a substantive meeting between the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam and the President of the United States.

Not too many people are – were as good as Bob Hope. George Burns was great at thinking, you know, on the spot. Steve Allen was marvelous, and so was George Burns. But Bob may be the king of them all, you know.

I write better in Cape Breton… too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don’t bother me, and I don’t feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.

Goodness is something people take advantage of, and if you want to remain a good person for long, you should make sure that too many people don’t take advantage of you because then you turn bitter.

Far too many people, many of them white men, are losing healthcare insurance as they lose their manufacturing jobs. This is commerce by most real world definitions.

We are more dependent on science and engineering than at any other time in history. However, there is plenty of evidence that far too many people are scientifically illiterate, often having been put off science at school.

Way too many people believe Republicans are anti-immigrant, anti-woman, anti-science, anti-gay, anti-worker.

Too many people are waiting for Jesus to come along and cut your grass. And Jesus isn’t going to come along and cut your grass.

Nigel Farage has persuaded too many people that we have lost control of our borders.

Too many people don’t do things for fear of falling. You’ll never get good unless you fall. Experiences and new accomplishments are feelings we should never lose.

Too many people get lost in the game of having a good time and being naive about things.

Too many people asking too many questions in tennis. Golf is better.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

I remember my first time in the studio, I wasted like six hours. There were too many people in there. I was kind of shy.

Everybody’s scared for their ass. There aren’t too many people ready to die for racism. They’ll kill for racism but they won’t die for racism.

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.

I don’t like going out. I hate clubs. I hate being around too many people. I love my home and staying in bed and watching ‘Dancing With the Stars’ or reading a Danielle Steel novel.

Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that’s right is to get by, and the only thing that’s wrong is to get caught.

I had a great acting teacher in high school. But I didn’t like acting because it took too many people to get the job done. You have to talk to too many people and listen to others’ opinions. With music, you get a few friends together and just make it.

During a game, it comes down to your mind – the pressure. There are loads of other aspects, too. Many people say taking penalties is easy, but when you’re stood over one, that’s not the case. It’s in no way easy. The goal really does become a lot smaller.

I have a knack – and still do – where I can look at a guy and tell you if he’s going to draw you money or not. That’s very difficult to do. I haven’t met too many people who can do that.

There are too many people coming out of school and heading into a life of nothing. They go straight on the dole or into crime.

I have spent too long with too many people who have lost loved ones to healthcare-associated infections not to be determined to act on this. There is no tolerable level of preventable infections. The only acceptable strategy is a zero-tolerance strategy.

Too many people have already lost their lives to HIV and AIDS, and the more celebrities who can bring attention to the issue, the better.

I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it’s all make-believe.

Not too many people present a good ground game from the bottom. They survive a little bit, and it’s kind of boring. But not too many people are attacking from the bottom, hurting with elbows. They don’t bring that kind of game because it takes a long time to develop.

I’m not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.

I fell for my own hype. I had too many people saying I couldn’t be beat, and I actually fell for it.

The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.

I live in a dumb house. Which is not to say that I don’t love its quirky charm, its drafty windows and leaky fireplaces and an electrical system that protests when too many people are trying to vacuum and microwave at the same time. But charm is not always user-friendly.

The worst job I ever had was as a telemarketer for, oh, I don’t know, I think I made it about 90 minutes. I quit before lunch. I went in around 10:30 or 11 and said, ‘I can’t do this.’ It was horrific. I had too many people yell at me within that 90 minutes to be able to continue.

I’ve certainly been very blessed. I can only say that I worked very hard in class and on set doing the best that I can at the moment. I was incredibly blessed with ‘Battlestar’… I tried to work my little butt off just to keep up with everybody else and not too many people kicked me.

I think too many people in Hollywood perhaps fail to make a distinction between the political side of Israel and the notion of the country. And they can be separate things.

Too many people in Washington care about power institutions, not caring about changing the lives of everyday Americans.

Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.

Too many people dwell on the past: the thing is to get on with life.

The smug complacency of technology adverts disguises a pretty mixed picture, with too many people not connected, too many passive users of technologies designed for interactive, and far too much talk about empowerment but far too little action to make it happen.

I’m listening to the audience. Too many people in Hollywood make what they want to see and not what we want to see. I’m about us. Not about me.

All I can say is that I’ve had too many people in the hip-hop industry really like what I’m doing. I know where I’m coming from, and the album speaks for itself.

I don’t know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store.

Obviously there are not too many people who get a chance to play in the Olympics in their hometown. That would be something special, but going into the summer you have to be realistic with yourself, and health-wise and motivation-wise you have to be willing to do what it takes.

I’ve seen too many people who have been artists for a long time, on that cycle of record-promote-tour, and you look up and 10 years of your life is gone. I didn’t want that to happen to me.

There are still too many people out there who are claustrophobic. On easyCruise, we are going to open up as many cabins as we can.

I think that Batman loses his efficacy and mythology if he’s got too many people around him. That’s what the Justice League is for, you know what I mean?

Too many people have lost their lives, particularly in the African-American community, for the right to vote. I stand in their shadows and I am standing on their shoulders.

Obviously I’m not the greatest scorer in the world or the greatest shooter in the world, but I’m tough and rebounding is something that not too many people want to put the effort into doing.

There’s nothing that irritates Americans more than the fact that some members of Congress think they are entitled to their own set of rules. And it’s true – too many people in Washington live in an alternate reality.

We live and die by Lions Only because not too many people can go through the struggle of life the way my brother and I have and still be on top and make it as far as we are making it right now.