For The People Quotes

But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.

I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.

In his 4 years in the White House, President Carter worked to make the Federal Government more competent and compassionate and more responsive to the American people.

I agree that someone falling down is really funny, and I can go on YouTube and watch people falling. It makes me laugh.

Fearing servility, people become servile.

People get way too much credit at funerals.

One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's been there - but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it.

People are always looking for something to hate on. If this is something for them to target and hate on, that's their thing. I look at it as satire.

If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away

When you deejay a party, a good DJ's job is to take care of the crowd. If people want to hear Britney Spears, that's what you're supposed to do.

Italy valued cathedrals while Spain valued explorers. So worldwide, five times as many people speak Spanish than Italian.

People think about life from day-to-day rather than thinking about life as something that invents a new kind of tomorrow.

When NASA dreams big America dreams big. People...kids say, 'I want to do that when I grow up'. Because you want to do what's visible to you.

You people always hold onto old identities, old faces and masks, long after they've served their purpose. But you've got to learn to throw things away eventually.

I don't just randomly kill people... I kill people when it's funny.

"Some things may change," said Wednesday, abruptly. "People, however... People stay the same."

. . . Americans are the best entertained and quite likely the least well-informed people in the Western world.

People in the world can never imagine the length of days to those in asylums. They seemed never ending, and we welcomed any event that might give us something to think about as well as talk of.

I am impressed when music matters, when genres are broken, when spirits are lifted, when people make a difference, and when people are true to themselves.

I sometimes use some personality traits to fashion part of a character. Most of my characters are composites of either people I know or people in the public eye.

Where people of goodwill get together and transcend their differences for the common good, peaceful and just solutions can be found even for those problems which seem most intractable.

To truly lead one's people, one must also truly know them.

I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.

Violence must be inflicted once for all; people will then forget what it tastes like and so be less resentful. Benefits must be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

To know well the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to know well the nature of princes one must be of the people.

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.

You always have a choice. It's just that some people make the wrong one.

I think that setting a novel in a small town taps into a sense of nostalgia among readers. People tend to believe life is different in small towns, and frankly, it is different.

We [people] spend so much time feeling so small and less than and insignificant and diminished because we see ourselves through our own lens.

I never really followed the traditional route when it comes to what people probably expect as a solo artist goes, but that's just me. It's my own creative output and it's my expression.

I got to sing with the Boss, Sting, Pink and John Legend and all of those people. It felt like the pinnacle, and then I got the call. I cried, actually and I called my dad, it was really cool.

A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure.

As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious.

Each time there is a news story, sometimes that gives ideas to people who then turn into criminals.

Nothing is more destructive than the gap between people's perceptions of their own day-to-day economic well-being and what politicians and statisticians are telling them about the economy

I also believe on a practical level, if you're taking time away from people, besides entertaining them, I think it's important that there's something to react to.

It is important not to copy other people's careers but set the tone of who you want to be. My father's always encouraged me to do that.

Musicians are like politicians. They're the last people who should be making music, just like politicians are the last people who should be running things.

People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.

I'm one of those people who always tries to overachieve. I want to do more. I want to do bigger things.

I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

When all of a sudden, people say, 'Wow, you look nice,' and carry on, it's shocking. Really awkward.

No one's too big for a compliment. A lot of times, people think with celebrities, 'Oh, she knows she's great in that!' Meryl Streep still likes a compliment. I guarantee you, it touches her heart.

My life and work are not separate. I just have more roles than other people. And I have photographs.

Formats are going to change because this is what the people want. It's not what the labels want.

I am a curious person and, believe it or not, I really do like to sit back and listen to people's stories.

I try not to read best-dressed lists or anything like that. For every good thing, there will often be a not-so-nice thing people would say.

We wouldn't think of going to our doctor and saying 'Treat me the way doctors treated people in the 19th Century', and yet that's what we're demanding in food production.

Like most people, I've grown a lot more sophisticated in my style choices. I know myself and what suits me better now than I did when I was much younger and feel more comfortable in my own skin.

When you are realized, you can start feeling your own chakras and the chakras of other people. This is enlightenment.