For The People Quotes

People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films.

It's frustrating me - that booty is gonna sag at some point. And if you allow enough people to come inside your physical space, they leave traces.

You need to have honest things in the world. Even if people don't understand it, if it's coming from you, that's already important.

Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatness begins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you

Punctuality is for people with nothing better to do

[Eventually the] hoopla will die down [and people will] run the same way we brush our teeth-every day, without a fuss.

Oh. What if we eat a lot with people that annoy the hell out of us?

I think my sense of humor is Jewish. I'm smarter than most white people, which is kind of a Jewish thing, too.

The photograph is kind of a proof - a proof that I actually met these people, that they actually have lives, and that they're worth considering.

A film is not done by one person. It's done by a lot of people. I love this whole collaborative aspect. When it works well, you end up with something better than any of us started out to do.

If you have unskilled people who work poorly together, no amount of process will save your projects.

It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem.

Help people with problems, your problems disappear.

By finding waste and abuse in entitlement programs, and eliminating it, we can ensure that the funds that are put into these programs go to the people that need them the most.

I try to use my music to move these people to act.

All you have to do is be a little bit specific, and all of a sudden, you have your own little niche and people are going to watch.

Precious was one of a large number of people on the street, many of whom appeared to be women; some, like Precious, actually were.

The beautiful people in the magazines, got the normal ones living beyond their means.

Throwing acid is wrong... in some people's eyes.

The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn't care about his people is one who pretends to care. People can spot a phony every time.

I'm known in the trade as Litigiousness because, which means to say I'm willing to pull people into court straight away, no messing, thank you.

A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.

People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community.

I think it's really important to be kind, especially to people whose lives are grim - I try hard to cheer people up in as many ways as I can - if all else fails - I tell 'em a joke!

I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle types, to apathetic, disengaged automatons.

Somebody else does the rigor and then I listen. I have an assistant, and my manager, and other people who hunt and find and send it to me, and then I just figure out which ones I can do justice to.

I have no methods. All I do is accept people as they are.

I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!

I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp.

That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.

Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step?

I'd rather report to four million people as the elected Sheriff than some governor or president, so I like reporting to the people.

I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people.

Once you get into entertaining a quarter of a million people, it's a very weird place to be.

I have sung to large crowds since then, and there is a feeling that once you get over 100,000 people, you kind of lose the control element, you don't know if you are really getting through or not.

Humor is an amazing way to talk people down off a ledge.

The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants.

God made certain people to play football. He was one of them.

I prefer the band aspect of things. I feel comfortable. It feels good to look to my left and right and see three other people on stage with you that love music as much as you.

I think people believe that I give ant aura of someone who has both feet on the ground.

It's all about people. It's all about the subjectivity of what people love.

I never argue with people who say baseball is boring, because baseball is boring. And then, suddenly, it isn't. And that's what makes it great.

People who prefer e-books...think that books merely take up space. This is true, but so do your children and Prague and the Sistine Chapel.

I have finally become my own genre, and now that's what publishers want. I have a wonderful publisher now, Mulholland, very innovated, very fine people working there.

People love to see people fall.

If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time.

You have all these people in the press who are ringing their hands over fake news stories. That actually became the narratives for critics.

People buy from people they know, like or trust

People say I'm a one-note actor, but the way I figure it, those other guys are just looking for that one right note.

I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you're a guy who generates money, people have a vested interest in controlling you.