People Quotes
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The attacks inside Israel are operations we carry out in response to Israeli crimes against our people.
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People don't work in factories, they aren't big muscular guys. The working class is flabby because they're sitting in front of a computer all day, but it's still their labor being extracted.
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People, you can never change the way they feel. Better let them do what they will. For they will, if you let them, steal your heart.
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Music is my religion. Music is the only thing that has never failed me. People let you down, music won't.
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The almost erotic pleasure of spending money that others have earned and saved is one reason people put up with the tiresome aspects of political life.
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Australians are a fantastic bunch of people but the attention can be overwhelming for someone like me.
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Anytime you start doing a comic book with mythology attached, people are like, "Are you going to get it right? It's important to me."
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People used to call me for donations, and I couldn't relate to that because I have spent most of my life trying to support myself.
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People can tell you what to do, but ultimately, we're all going to die, so how do you want to live?
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Sometimes when my mom finds a fun article and really wants me to read it, I will. But I prefer to just kind of focus on what I want to do and not really what other people are saying, because I don't want that to affect me too much.
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I never drove a car. I'm hopeless that way. I press the wrong buttons on the tape recorder. But if the person I'm interviewing helps me out, that person feels needed. People need to feel needed.
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One problem with people is that as soon as they fill a space it's them you see and not the space. Large, desolate landscapes stop being large, desolate landscapes once they have people in them. They define what the eye sees. And the human eye is almost always directed at other humans. In this way an illusion is created that humans are more important than those things on earth which are not human. It's a sick illusion.
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Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen.
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I think people only have so much interest in anybody, and if you barrage them in between the times you have something to offer them you become a personality rather than an actor - much more short-lived. I only work once a year. And that's enough.
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People need to see signs of equal treatment across society.
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People forget already how much utility they get out of the Internet - how much utility they get out of e-mail, how much utility they get out of even simple things like brochureware online.
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Few things are as stimulating as other people's calamities observed from a safe distance.
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Kathryn Bigelow is a really good example of somebody that has maintained her truth and she makes the films she wants to make and she hasn't let other people affect her too much. Her last film is to me so inspiring and the way she sees war, the way she set up those really intimate relationships in and amongst this carnage.
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We live in a world in which it's harder to talk about the American in the singular, so we're a multi. We have several different people who represent the United States, so in that sense whiteness, the salience, the importance of whiteness is kind of tamping down some.
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I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren't funny.
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I'd say it's that most people think that very wealthy people take huge risks and that's why they have huge rewards. But the very best on earth are completely obsessed with not losing money. That sounds overly simplistic, but they know that if you lost 50 percent, it takes 100 percent to get even. Most people don't make that math in their head, so it takes years and years. They are obsessed with not losing money.
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A powerful connection between two people is a potent psychic factor that exists regardless of either person's opinion about the relationship.
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I'll tell you what's funny about it [NSA wiretapping]: They tell us we got to cut the budget; we have to have budget rollback. We're going to cut the budget on air traffic control, and every once in a while your plane is going to be delayed for three hours. But we do have the money laying around to hire people to read your emails and listen to your phone conversations. That just doesn't make any friggin' sense at all.
