For The People Quotes

I believe in the Democratic party, and their philosophy and what they stand for - for the poor people.

For many people, the reluctance to embrace Christianity is as practical as it is intellectual. They want to know what the benefits of Christianity are, or what's in it for them.

Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust.

People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death.

Cities collect people, stray and lost and deliberate arrivants.

There is a deliberate and quite outspoken attack on the whole idea of people owning private property.

I always was intrigued with writing my own stuff, and I was always really bad at learning other people's stuff.

Once you start losing reality, when you start losing reality with yourself, sometimes people just get dizzy.

I'm not ashamed to say I fear something. Besides me having a fear to fly, I also don't want to scare other people. When I'm on a plane, I don't want to freak out everyone else, too.

Frequently, when I'm compared to someone, I'm like, "Is that really what people think I sound like?"

One thing that people don't really understand is that as celebrity you rarely get fair treatment. You either get love or hate. It's never really fair.

I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, 'Dang, she looks good for her age!'

Those people who wake up and they're just beautiful, they're just born that way. Well that ain't me. I gotta work for everything I've got.

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I'll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you're not on time.

A lot of people think I'm a comedian.

All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

Going door to door and talking to people, convincing them to vote - this is what I call Organizing 101.

Karate has helped me lots, otherwise I might have got lost in substance abuse or something like the things a lot of other people do.

Mel is nuts. He puts on a suit and a tie and acts like a normal person so people think he's okay. He's definitely out in left field. He's got the ambition of a boy.

My thing is when people say Dom Kennedy's music reminds them of L.A., I wanna do that 100 percent because at the end of the day that's all I am.

There is this old thing that a lot of people say - that the worst experiences make the best films. I don't subscribe to it. But I've seen it happen.

Uncle Junior is a criminal, which makes him a villain, so it makes people want to watch him. My whole life as an actor has been preparing for something like this.

I'm only stopped by people in uniform, whether it's customs people, janitors, or the FBI - they all watch The Wire. Sadly, beautiful, glamorous women don't know anything about it.

Sometimes I think I might insult people by being openly flirtatious, then snatching it back.

Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.

But I've been surprised over the years. I mean, someone told me the other day that maybe 360 million people have played this game in the world. That's a lot of people.

It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.

Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death.

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

No shame, no solution, no remorse, no retribution, just people selling t-shirts.

My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life.

Mainstream Canadians, what some might call the dominant culture, like to think this racism doesn't happen. It's important to remind people that it does and that we have work to do to end it.

I don't promote boxing, I promote people. Boxing is a catalyst to bring people together.

Most of the people living in New York have come here from the far to try to make enough money to go back to the farm

People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.

I still think funny, and people young and old still come and see me. That's flattering. The day comes that they stop coming, then I'll know that it's time to retire to the Jewish ranch.

I was nice to the people in the Philippines for the two and a half years I was there, because I knew even­tually I'd have to kiss up to them so my grandchildren could have toys.

People think being in your seventies means sitting around in a chair with a blanket over your legs, drooling.

But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.

The great ones realize that what you did yesterday guarantees you nothing today. The challenge is too many people are busy celebrating yesterday's success.

Having the best product means nothing if the people won't buy it.

I'm not a fan of technology . I'm a fan of pedagogy, of understanding how people learn and the most effective learning methods. But technology enables some exciting changes.

I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing

I've been looking at the iPod- the Apple iPod. One of the interesting things about the iPod, one of the things that people love most about it is not the technology; it's the box it comes in

People are usually afraid to say what's on their mind.

I don't think I'm good, I don't think I'm a good rapper. I think a lot of people always want me to battle somebody and stuff like that which is cool, but I don't see myself as a rapper.

Rapper, just puts so much connotation on who you are and what is exposed. Even if a lot of it is out-dated, people still bring a lot to it.

There really isn't any limit to the number of people who want a piece of you, and it's all important stuff.

It's certainly going to be different from what people have seen before.

If you don't feel free and be yourself, you can't connect. Find people who accept your quirks. They'll heal your soul.