People Quotes
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There are so many bright people who just need an opportunity to help others and pay it forward.
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I ask you to join in a re-United States. We need to empower our people so they can take more responsibility for their own lives in a world that is ever smaller, where everyone counts.... We need a new spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together, or the American Dream will continue to wither. Our destiny is bound up with the destiny of every other American.
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Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
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In an age of enormities, the emotions are naturally weakened. We are continually called upon to have feelings - about genocide, for instance, or about famine or the blowing up of passenger planes - and we are all aware that we are incapable of reacting appropriately. A guilty consciousness of emotional inadequacy or impotence makes people doubt their own human weight.
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Ten people who are into our music is better than three hundred people who are just standing there.
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Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
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The people who loved me when I was seven years old love my books, and the people who didn't like me when I was seven years old don't like my books.
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My professional acting life, stage and screen, has brought me public support, emotional fulfillment and material comfort. It has brought me together with fine people, good companions with whom I've shared the inevitable lot of all actors: flops and hits.
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Hope works in these ways: it looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst; it discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot; it regards problems, large or small, as opportunities; it pushes ahead when it would be easy to quit; it lights the candle instead of cursing the darkness.
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People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me.
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We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.
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Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it.
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I'm one of those people who does a lot of things. I'm lucky. I get up and I have a lot of energy. I have a great work ethic.
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Fear is not a motivating factor. You might be able to get a little bit more out of someone in the short term, but you will completely erode your business and your culture in the long term. You're going to lose all your good people. You're not going to have people tell you the truth, and it becomes the tradition.
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As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy.
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The only people without problems are in cemeteries. If you don't have problems, get on your knees and pray.
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There are a lot of people who are unable to take a break to clear their minds. I imagine they are the ones who need it the most.
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I wouldn't say design has become strictly functional. A lot of cars these days look downright comic book to me, and the info-gadgets with which late industrial people spend the most time - phones, music players, etc. - are blobjects.
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Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men and women, parents and children, people and animals, human institutions and the land all were in dynamic balance and not in any primitive sense at all. Language was fully developed, poetry may have been at its climax, dance, magic, poetics, altruism, philosophy. There's no reason to think that these things were not practiced as adroitly as we practice them today and it was under the boundary dissolving influence of psilocybin.
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People change. I wouldn't like to be accountable for the interviews I've done, or the person I was when I was 20, 21.
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The best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe.
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Part of me worries about upsetting people, because we all have perceptions about Olympic champions.
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Pregnancy is a uniquely intimate relationship between two people. All of us luxuriate in this relationship once, and half of us are lucky enough to be able to do it all over again a second time, from the other side as it were. Never again outside of pregnancy can we be so truly intwined with someone else, no matter how hard we try.
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Change terrifies people. They like new, but they don't like new with change.
