For The People Quotes

I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.

Make the decision to love this day, this place, this moment, this special experience of life with the people around you. And there will be so very much to love.

People have got to show up, showing up at meetings, rallies, marches, City Council, courtrooms. You've got to show up.

You give out the words and then sing them. You give out the words, you know, and the people can hear what you're giving out, and they sing that song or that line and they do the same thing again.

You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.

Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.

All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.

I like people who like Plato.

This is one of the great paradoxes of suffering. Those who don't suffer much think suffering should keep people from God, while many who suffer a great deal turn to God, not from him.

People are more important than things.

I've always admired people who are over-prepared.

Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.

In Africa I discovered what the true purpose of a musician is. We are historians, and it is our purpose to tell the people the true story of our past, and to extend a better vision of the future.

If you really love music, people can tell if you love music. You have to just stick with it.

We live in a new time and a new place, and people have to begin to be ready for the kind of oversight that the public is demanding.

I'm a sponge. I'm obsessed with comedy. I'm obsessed with the idea that you can make somebody laugh, and I love to be around people who can make other people laugh.

Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young.

People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way.

The river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper.

Sighted people, you gotta deal with them.

What matters most is that the people you work with share your values.

Know what your people are like, and make sure they do their jobs excellently.

Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent.

I like to get people fired up, fill them with zeal for McDonald's, and watch the results in their work.

I figured something out. And it is no secret what I figured out. Whatever the majority of people were doing, I found myself doing the opposite. I wanted to chase something great.

You have to be careful of people who like to talk a big game but can't back it up.

I just - you know, some people just have some very full laughter - full of joy - and have no shame or fear of letting that out.

I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I'm good. I think I'm a very poor piano player.

Almost all politicians drive me insane. These people are supposed to be looking after us. What I hate is that we don't speak up enough as a nation and take on the government.

Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with the means at hand, not hand-wrought dueling pistols, curare and tropical fish.

The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.

I cannot understand how sensible people still defend Facebook, YouTube and Twitter

Being a Southern person and a blonde, it's not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you, they think of you as not being smart.

People love to see themselves on screen in a way that makes sense and seems on point.

You always make a film with the hope that all types of people will want to see your work and that it doesn't matter about your color, but unfortunately it still does.

The value of being connected and transparent is so high that the roadbumps of privacy issues are much lower in actual experience than people's fears.

All the pictures in magazines and all of that is fun but in the end it's all about your soul and who you are and have you connected with the people.

I enjoy doing motivational talks with businesses and other organizations. I really enjoy being with people and encouraging them in the work they do.

People who speak up for freedom in regimes that are oppressive are often a threat.

In regards to being female, I don't really think about it in the same way that other people do. I prefer to focus on my job rather than my gender. I'm still amazed that people think it's a big deal.

You must look for the good in people to have more of it appear. As you look only for the good things in a person, you will be amazed at what your new focus reveals.

Hateful people put fear in other people.

Hollywood does not write parts for people like me, an elderly gentleman, and when they find out you're crippled, forget about it. No, I'll never work again.

You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.

People's wardrobes in history are something that society and culture imposed. But sexuality is not about the way you dress.

There's people been friendly But they'd never be your friends Sometimes this has bent me to the ground

Speak to your people as to men that must be awakened, either here or in hell.

If you tell a lie that's big enough, and you tell it often enough, people will believe you're telling the truth, even if what you're saying is total crap.

Please be polite. Nothing in life should erode the habit of saying thank you to people or praising them.

One key to entrepreneurial success is to get a great group of people around you who believe in your idea.