„I see lots of people everywhere, one lot going one way and the other lot going in the opposite way, as a rule.“

„Inside all of us is a boss. You just gotta go find her. That’s the truth. Everyone is capable. Everyone has the ability. A lot of it is timing. A lot of it is right place, right time. A lot of it is not giving up. A lot if it is push, dreams, following those [dreams] through, and tenacity. You can do it. It’s going to be hard. People are going to tell you no. But no matter what your goal is in life, there’s always a way. You just have to look for that way. Sometimes you have to make that way. Sometimes you have to go around people. Sometimes you may have to go through people. But there’s always a way to make it happen.“

—  Erika Jayne American singer, actress and television personality 1969

Erika Jayne interview to Refinery29 https://www.refinery29.com/erika-jayne-girardi-real-housewives-of-beverly-hills-interview (2017)

„There was a lot of apologizing going on, but I realized that was how it was with people you cared about. You forgave each other and moved on.“

—  Richelle Mead, Blood Promise

Źródło: Blood Promise

„Our country's really in bad, big trouble. We have a lot of trouble. A lot of problems. And one of the big problems, I talk about, divisiveness. I think that a lot of people will appreciate … I'm not doing it for that reason. I'm doing it because it's time to go in a different direction.“

—  Donald J. Trump 45th President of the United States of America 1946

2010s, 2016, November, New York Times Interview (November 23, 2016)

„In any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like. Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot. I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting.“

—  Donald Judd artist 1928 - 1994

1960s

„Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a bit of difference. All that remains is a desert.“

—  Haruki Murakami, książka Na południe od granicy, na zachód od słońca

Źródło: South of the Border, West of the Sun

„I wanted to be the exception to the other kids, but in the right way. We have a lot of suffering in our part of the world, but that suffering is, in a way, a blessing. Obviously, I could not afford to go to school without a scholarship, so that meant I had to excel in order to get one.“

—  Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Jordanian businesspeople 1938

December 2006, Interview with Jordan Business magazine entitled “The Grass is Greener … On Both Sides”.

„There were lots of celebrities at my fight. I heard through the grapevine Michael Caine was one…and not a lot of people know that!“

—  Ricky Hatton English former professional boxer 1978

Ricky Hatton http://news2.thdo.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/funny_old_game/6275535.stm

„A lot of people ask the question about internet usage, "How much is too much?" Our view is it depends on how that time is spent. One of the things I feel really strongly about is there’s a lot of innovation and there’s a lot of competition, and that’s driving a lot of product improvement and a lot of usefulness and a lot of usage and also a lot of scrutiny.“

—  Mary Meeker American venture capitalist and securities analyst 1959

VentureBeat: "Mary Meeker’s annual valentine to Silicon Valley reminds us tech utopianism is alive and well" https://venturebeat.com/2018/06/15/mary-meekers-annual-valentine-to-silicon-valley-reminds-us-tech-utopianism-is-alive-and-well/ (15 June 2018)

„We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father’s unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.“

—  Robert Charles Wilson, książka Axis

Źródło: Axis (2007), Chapter 19 (p. 235)

„The problems we see today are going to be a hell of a lot worse in 10 years if we're not willing to face up to them. These kids are just not going to be absorbed into the economy, so what are they going to be doing? Well, we know. They're going to be making life pretty miserable for a lot of people.“

—  William Julius Wilson American sociologist 1935

Interview with Mother Jones.

„It's extraordinary what that song has been used for — I think a lot of people who have gotten into trouble, have attached themselves to that song, and I think a lot of it is Kate's wonderful voice is there, in a sort of reassuring and loving way, and it just makes them think that perhaps there is going to be that type of love out there for them.“

—  Peter Gabriel English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian 1950

On his duet with Kate on his song "Don’t Give Up", on his album So
The Kate Bush Story (2014)

„I was asked by thousands of people if I was going to write a book. A lot of them had shared in my story, and in ways I don't quite understand, they had found it helpful.“

—  Lauren Manning American banker 1961

Survivor Lauren Manning finds 'new normal' after 9/11 http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/books/news/story/2011-08-29/Survivor-Lauren-Manning-finds-new-normal-after-911/50182388/1, USA Today, 29 August 2011

„The way I see it, dogs had this big meeting, oh, maybe 20,000 years ago. A huge meeting — an international convention with delegates from everywhere. And that's when they decided that humans were the up-and-coming species and dogs were going to throw their lot in with them. The decision was obviously not unanimous. The wolves and dingoes walked out in protest.“

—  Charles Krauthammer American journalist 1950 - 2018

"Of Dogs and Men", TIME magazine (10 June 2003) http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,457373,00.html
2000s, 2003

„I think a lot of people see food in terms of whether it's going to make them fat or make them skinny. I'm seeing food in terms of how it's going to make me think and will it give me clarity.“

—  David Zabriskie road bicycle racer 1979

"Riding the Tour De Vegetable" https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304314404576414124184873028, interview with The Wall Street Journal (29 June 2011).

„It took a lot of women like that, a lot of women who said "I'm not going to do what you expect me to do, because you have no idea what I'm capable of. I'm going to get dirty and use tools and live the way I want" to move the world forward.“

—  Maureen Johnson writer from the USA 1973

Źródło: The Last Little Blue Envelope

„Audience member: We have a problem in this country, it's called Muslims. Our current President is one. We know he's not even an American. We have training camps growing where they want to kill us. That's my question, when can we get rid of them?
Donald Trump: We're going to be looking at a lot of different things. A lot of people are saying that and a lot of people are saying that bad things are happening out there. We're going to be looking at that and a lot of different things.“

—  Donald J. Trump 45th President of the United States of America 1946

At a town hall meeting in New Hampshire — as quoted in * 2015-09-17
Here's How Donald Trump Responded to a Person Saying President Obama is Muslim
Maya Rhodan
Time
http://time.com/4039658/trump-obama-muslim/
2010s, 2015

„I liked Truffaut a lot, I've felt a lot of admiration for his way to address the audience, and his storytelling…. La nuit américaine is adorable, and another film I like to see is L'enfant sauvage, with its fine humanism.“

—  Ingmar Bergman Swedish filmmaker 1918 - 2007

On the works of filmmaker Francois Truffaut
Variant translation: I liked Truffaut enormously, I admired him. His way of relating with an audience, of telling a story, is both fascinating and tremendously appealing. It's not my style of storytelling, but it works wonderfully well in relation to the film medium.
Jan Aghed interview (2002)

„He was one of those people with lots of intelligence but no brains“

—  Joseph Heller American author 1923 - 1999

„The Mirlitons in the Place Vendôme, opposite the column! What a crush! A lot of people, a lot of women, and a lot of nonsense! It's a crush made up of gloved hands manipulating tortoiseshell or gold lorgnettes; but it's a crush all the same!“

—  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec French painter 1864 - 1901

Lautrec visited in the Spring of 1885 several exhibitions in Paris, he made a note of his impressions. His spontaneous criticisms were irreverent, with a certain irony. 'Le Mirliton', a Paris cabaret, was opened in 1885 by Aristide Bruant
Źródło: 1885-1895, T-Lautrec, by Henri Perruchot, p. 83 - from a note of his impressions