For The People Quotes
Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry.
I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, I was told to have another audition, but I didn't want to go there again.
I don't kind of want to be known as a one-trick pony who just does the adult-alternative song once a year that makes it onto the radio and people sort of think it's nice.
A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.
I think what happens is when something becomes successful, then a lot of people take credit for it in such ways that it takes credit away from you.
If people don't like what I'm doing I really don't have time to hear it. I'm doing something good with my life and I challenge them to do the same.
I'm not ready to be that guy who can meet with world leaders and all that. It's tremendous what Bono does. I don't know if I could do it, not the way he does. I don't think many people could.
I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.
Amsterdam is not Holland. It is a city that attracts people from all over Holland. And lots of international tourists and party people.
To all those who won't listen to my music because I don't smoke ganga, I say the hell with those people
People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.
It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.
I don't have examples in my life of people who are all good or bad; I have deeply loved many people who are both, and I relate to those kinds of people on a far greater level.
...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
The process is intense and the producers, who are intelligent men, are bringing in new people for a fresh look at a complicated project that has been in the making for 10 years
Production speed is severely slowed down if one works with half-time people who have other obligations as well. This is at least a factor of four; probably it is worse.
Remember that, lad, if you never remember anything else. We all touch each other's lives, for better or for worse. So say the things you have to say to people while you still have the chance.
The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.
I only knew a few people, literally a handful of people, al of whom had been in the Party long before I was, all of whom were known by the FBI and were known to the Committee.
Many people have believed that they were Chosen, but none more baldly than the Texans.
Young people know how to use these social networking tools, and they know how to use them effectively.
Ironically, many of people, including Osama bin Laden and the mujahedeen, were, in fact, nourished by the United States in the early eighties in its efforts to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan.
I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them.
I think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I don't know."
People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I don't think that's limited to Haiti.
Think what you like. There are people who die by remaining alive and others who gain life by dying.
In Fleet Street, in Fleet Street, the People are so fleet, They barely touch the cobble-stones with their nimble feet!
I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.
'Hostel' is that's how I feel about what's going on in Iraq. There's people that just want money and people are being sacrificed for it.
The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it.
If people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit on the head with a baseball bat was a good thing.
Not every change is an improvement but every improvement is a change; you can't do anything BETTER unless you can manage to do it DIFFERENTLY, you've got to let yourself do better than other people!
Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food.
I'm not particularly keen on pity. Pity takes something away from grief. People think they're sharing it, but really they're just taking some. I prefer to keep my grief intact.
People are like vines ... We are born and we grow. Like vines, people also need a tree to cling to, to give them support.
