For The People Quotes

I enjoyed [Celebrity Ghost Stories]. I never thought in a million years that I would tell people that I saw a ghost. And I've seen a lot of ghosts.

Music can be the bridge to understanding, but people have to get some knowledge.

And therefore only the enlightened sovereign and the worthy general who are able to use the most intelligent people as agents are certain to achieve great things.

Where the army is, prices are high; when prices rise the wealth of the people is exhausted.

Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like they are out of step with what's expected of them.

I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they're good talkers, but they don't have good ideas.

I think there's a huge difference between describing norms in a vivid way and singling out individual people.

Some people can only be happy being a star. What happens if and when the work dries up?

I believe in small government and people taking care of themselves.

Change doesn't happen with people sitting on their behinds, getting lazy.

The only thing I can talk about is just forgiving yourself, because I do not have everything together. And so I tell people: No, you should see my house, it's a mess.

The writer must be four people: 1) The nut, the obsede 2) The moron 3) The stylist 4) The critic. 1 supplies the material; 2 lets it come out; 3 is taste; 4 is intelligence.

Taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good visual taste and good taste in people and taste in ideas.

I was fascinated by quotations and lists. And then I noticed that other people were fascinated by quotations and lists: people as different as Borges and Walter Benjamin, Novalis and Godard.

I would love to direct a play. But I think when people look at me they see music and dancing and singing.

If two people love the same thing, she reasoned, then they must love each other, at least a little, even if they never say it.

Well, I suppose one ought not to employ a magician and then complain that he does not behave like other people.

It is these black clothes," said Strange. "I am like a leftover piece of funeral, condemned to walk about the Town, frightening people into thinking of their own mortality.

It is significant that people who refuse to tell their children fairytales do not fear that the children will believe in princes and princesses, but that they will believe in witches and bogeys.

I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if their name was associated with me

Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word "human."

People never move towards revolution; they are pushed towards it by intolerable injustices in the economic and social order under which they live.

When we place more value on what other people think of us than on what we think of ourselves, it’s a formula for misery.

Those who have no prejudices in themselves do not reject people, and therefore people do not reject them.

Humanity is lost because people have abandoned using their conscience as their compass.

When I first met Jack, I was terrified of him. I wasn't expecting a fun, laughing, enjoyable, exciting guy. I walked into his office like most people, with my knees knocking together. I was scared.

People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.

Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.

Many people feel "guilty" about things they shouldn't feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about.

The dance that happens, between actor and director, is a very delicate thing...it's why people tend to work together on many films over and over.

I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality.

People in New York pay attention to national issues - a huge percentage of people.

Every time I've failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.

All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.

I wanted to show I had balls at age 60. Just because society says I'm old, doesn't mean that I am. I'm pursuing happiness, even if it makes the people around me unhappy.

Everyone dreams, but not everybody remembers their dreams because some people go into delta; they go too low.

When you give the American people the tools to make the right choices for themselves, they're going to do that.

We have one asset, and that's people.

You walked in, laughing, tears welling confused, mingling in your throat. How can you be so many women to so many people, oh you strange girl?

People that watch Adult Swim don't watch the Oscars.

There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don't have the means.

I know what people say, that water's a lot like air. Do you charge for air? Well, of course not. Well, you shouldn't charge for water. Okay, watch what happens you won't have any water

People commit suicide through weakness, not through strength.

I have found that the richest people I know are also the nicest.

I think big! I choose to help thousands and thousands of people!

Get really rich and then help the people who didn't have the opportunity you did.

Rich people are almost always excellent promoters. They can are willing to promote their products, their services, and their ideas with passion and enthusiasm.

Resenting promotion is one of the greatest obstacles to success. People who have issues with selling and promotion are usually broke.

When you ask me who I look up to and who I can admire for their style right now, I have to choose from people that represent what I represent stylistically.

I don't think there's anything wrong with sitting down with people as long as you understand that there are needs to be met and purposes to be served.