For The People Quotes

I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience

I always tell people that if you get upset over what someone says, imagine him or her with a clown's nose on and you won't get so angry.

Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? 'Cause he had problems.

The American people in my view will never support a candidate whose major theme is bigotry.

When I was a young boy, I can remember in the community that I grew up in, seeing people in the community who had numbers that were on their arms.

No matter how many times people try to pick my lyrics apart, nobody will really understand what these songs truly mean to me because I would rather not get into it.

People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.

Televison allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone.

Some people would rather die than think.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

I can only say that, while my own opinions as to ethics do not satisfy me, other people's satisfy me still less.

I've liked lots of people 'til I went on a picnic jaunt with them.

God holds his people responsible for righteousness, not for results.

When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty.

People have told me 'Betty, Facebook is a great way to keep in touch with old friends...' .. At my age, if I wanted to keep in touch with old friends, I'd need a Ouija board

I'm just happy as a lark having a good health. People say are you thinking about retiring, I don't have time to think about retiring.

I realized... that the artist is always alone. Early in life I had thought I needed other people to confirm or approve what I was doing.

Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis.

I think fear... tends to hold people back from really pursuing their dreams. Basically: LEAP! And the net will appear.

I met a congressman who claimed that he could introduce me to two people who saw Amelia Earhart.

I feel I can really relate to a lot of young people.

I feel like Im able to relate to all races of people because when you learn to tap into the raw emotion of a person, that goes past color.

I don't call my people fans, I call them believers, because they go above and beyond.

...and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things.

Parents are people who yell and they yell and they yell and they yell. And you already have the point... and they're still yelling.

When a person has a gun, sometimes their mind clicks that this thing ... will win arguments and straighten people out.

People will frighten you about a graduation.... They use words you don't hear often: And we wish you Godspeed." It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices."

I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff.

It's not to give people fish It's not to teach them how to fish It's to build a new and better fishing industry

The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.

Being flooded with information doesn't mean we have the right information or that we're in touch with the right people.

Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company

Well, I don't think there's any need for people to focus on my career.

To get a big company moving fast, especially on a many-headed opportunity like the Internet, you have to have hundreds of people participating and coming up with ideas.

We need to start thinking about the future of food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment.

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.

Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk].

The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of people who see that better ways are available; thanks to technology.

As long as one person lives in darkness then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people.

People are bringing SHOTGUNS to UFO sightings...brings a whole new meaning to that phrase 'You ain't from around here, ar'ya?'

Don't get so addicted to vision that the people feel like equipment

Journalism is the closest thing I have to a religion, because I believe deeply in the role and responsibility the journalists have to the people of a self-governing community.

You can't pray away global warming, and that's the difference between religious people and sane people.

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.

There's hardly a more bitter pill to take than when a President disappoints the people who most believed in him.

There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as "we"; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm.

I’m just one of the people who stands on the Kop. They think the same as I do, and I think the same as they do. It’s a kind of marriage of people who like each other.