People Quotes
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I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!
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Is it too much to ask, to live in a world where our human gifts go toward the benefit of all? Where our daily activities contribute to the healing of the biosphere and the well-being of other people?
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There are some loony people in this world!
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It's not fun to keep secrets, but sometimes you have to do it to protect yourself. And to protect people around you.
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It's very common to think that we're always evolving, that we've changed so much from our younger selves, that within decades we've transformed into these different people. We like to think that. I feel in some ways that I am still so much my younger self. There are ways that I'm different: I feel like I'm wiser and kinder. But I think a lot of the impulses are still the same. I learned that.
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A lot of wonderful people love their country and hate the military.
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I really believe people should be paid for the work that they do.
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When After Forever stopped, I didn't want to first find a band, then see if I could write with them, figure that whole thing out, then record an album. Instead, I worked with people I knew would be good songwriters out of an idea how I thought it would sound like.
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People who like what I do come in all shapes and sizes. Not sure what the common denominator is per se. Oh, it's meeee! But to be embraced by a progressive community means something to me and this one feels like home.
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People always ask me how long it takes to do my hair. I don’t know, I’m never there.
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Success, to me, is helping one person or many people counter the isolation and pseudoconnectivity of our lives by boosting their ability to connect to themselves and to others.
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For some people, the better route for finding like-minded parents is just to get out of your house with your baby and frequent baby-friendly places.
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Why should we be letting people smoke their cigars in their comfortable chairs in Raqqa?
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The people who say,"What guarantee do I have?" I walk away. I'll get you later.
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People do that sometimes. Change.
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People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible; and they who feel one thing acutely, will so feel another.
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Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world.
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I think closing-off is the most detrimental thing we can do as people. Also, the idea of not judging oneself.
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We don't know anything about people, even those with whom we share everything.
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I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work.
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Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it.
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The sudden death of a partner while expecting a child is so universally understood as awful that I don't think anyone with any other weight to carry is going to get to same kind of sympathy - except perhaps people who lose a child.
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But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.
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... the estranged self, hidden with its inexhaustible potential, lies undiscovered by many people who die without even knowing that it exists.
