People Quotes
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There's a huge shift in the way we connect with people as humans in the technology age versus right before that, when we still had a little bit of mystery.
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We must again carry the burden of our people and shoulder our commitment to leading them to the promised land.
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More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world.
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There are no one dimensional people.
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There is simply too much unnecessary suffering in our world. And we should see that as a national security risk, by the way. Given enough time, desperate people will tend to do desperate things. At a certain point you won't be able to build enough prisons or enough bombs to eradicate the effects of all that violence inside so many hearts.
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Some people might say my coming out after just winning the MVP award is heroic, and I understand that.
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Under my plan, the state will be there to carry out the will of the people, not to dictate to them or to force them to do its will.
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The best way to conduct research on a larger scale is to make sure everyone knows what everyone else is doing... The sooner the better - start talking to other people about what you're doing. Because that's what will stimulate things the fastest.
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People resemble still more the time in which they live, than they resemble their fathers.
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Every individual taste, every natural appetite, was bridled by caution. The people asleep in those houses, I thought, tried to live like the mice in their own kitchens; to make no noise, to leave no trace, to slip over the surface of things in the dark.
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If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned.
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I was snorting a lot of cocaine and I had lost myself to a great degree. A lot of people, everybody was starting to realize what the coke was all about and they were all starting to get lost.
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To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.
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I know my fan base is a smart group of people.
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I've seen stand up comedy, and after a while you start to notice that a lot of people are doing things that are like a lot of other people. There can be a bit of a herd mentality, and that's obviously less interesting because there's less going on. I'm just being totally frank with you.
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People don't realize, or maybe they've forgotten, that there was a time in history when standup comedy wasn't something that you had to hide your kids' ears from.
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The truth is that, to me, a likeable character is a character that is really flawed, so I don't know what people mean when they say 'likable.'
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I'm interested in people who are very close to the people who commit crimes.
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In many ways, everything about my upbringing decreed that I wouldn't write a memoir because in the world where I grew up, in Chicago in the Fifties and Sixties, one key way of protesting ourselves - 'we' meaning black people - against racism, against its stereotypes and its insults, was to curate and narrate very carefully the story of the people.
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There's a larger conversation we need to have about the role of police officers, their relationship to the people as enemy or executioner, when they're not supposed to be either.
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There was a point in the '80s when I looked out at my audience and I saw people that - were I not on the stage - they'd sooner slug me as they walked by me on the sidewalk. And I realized that I was way beyond the choir.
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Studying acting has been personally enriching because it has taught me to take the time to imagine what someone else's life experience might be like. To look deeply at how our pasts and the circumstances of our early childhoods mold us as people.
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I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.
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To be able to walk down the street and have people stop you, not just because they recognize you, but because you somehow personally touched them, it's amazing.
