For The People Quotes
Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.
In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons.
I don't want to expose the intricacies of my work so people can understand how I did it.
As a comic, I've heard gunshots while I'm trying to get to sleep. I've performed where people wanted to do you harm after the show because of something you said.
The crowds themselves are meaningless. The thing that counts is what happens to the hearts of the people.
If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.
There was a time when my whole life was in chaos, really, and I didn't help myself sort it out. But one day I came to my senses, and I think I was lucky because a lot of people don't.
The thing that is making jazz healthy today is that people are coming out of other backgrounds - from rock, folk, from ethnic music. It's changing the music, and for the better.
People are concerned, here again, about life, and haven't given a whole lot of attention to how you make fathers responsible for the lives they bring into the world.
One of the big challenges for our party is to demonstrate to people that we have an agenda for economic prosperity and that we can be trusted with their money.
I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself.
Its really a luck of the draw or fate or destiny, whatever you want to call it, but you dont know if youre going to resonate with people or not.
People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men.
The most attractive thing that I've seen in the creative realm is the enthusiasm in people that does not seem to burn out. That's what I'm after.
I am not normally a betting person, but I say that putting your money on the American people is about as close to a sure bet as you are going to get.
You live long enough, you lose enough people, you learn to appreciate the memories you have and stop begrudging the ones you never got to make.
I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can.
You have a lot of people on the run and really don't have time to sit down and eat a balanced meal.
If you think Barkley was mad before the fight, wait until he sees how many people are taking part of his purse
In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.
Position yourself as a center of influence, the one who knows the movers and shakers. People will respond to that, and you'll soon become what you project.
We don't see the people that vice destroys. We just see the glamour of it - everywhere we look, from billboard signs to movies, to newspapers, to magazines. We see the destruction of human life.
The government's not going to create jobs. It doesn't have to. People have to create jobs.
You know what they say about bein' nice to the right people on the way up Sooner or later you gonna meet them comin' down
All these people that I used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives.
Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that's going on right now in a big way.
Thoughtful people of different political philosophies can disagree, but in a very agreeable manner.
Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.
I used to think life could be shared with anyone, but now I know choosing the right people is pretty important.
It's amazing how many people you see on TV. I did my first television show a month ago, and the next day five million television sets were sold. The people who couldn't sell theirs threw them away.
Golf is a funny game. It's done much for health, and at the same time has ruined people by robbing them of their peace of mind. Look at me, I'm the healthiest idiot in the world.
There's a powerful sense of reality to our concepts, ... These are vehicles we think people would purchase and drive today.
It may not necessarily be the way I would like to see it happen, but the reality is we could still bring millions of people out of the darkness into the light.
How do you build a successful organization or culture? It's the people. The people part, in business and basketball, is huge.
More and more, as I get older, people come up to me and say, 'Thank you for all the laughter.' And my standard answer is, 'It was my pleasure.' But that's the truth.
We are imperfect beings in a very imperfect world, and the one thing we can count on is that things will go wrong, and that each and every one of us will have problems.
