For The People Quotes

Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement.

Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!

I went to Washington to ask for a little residual payment for the people who had written films in the early, early days, people who never got any residuals on tapes or anything at all.

Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.

I learned that lack of budget can be overcome by fan passion if you can get your content to the people who like what you do.

You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.

I want people to judge me on what we have achieved after five years. I will go back to my home in Bermuda, play some golf and live a healthier life.

Before I let myself question my loyalty to my people, I'm quitting music. I didn't do this to be by myself.

I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.

The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?

People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.

Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.

I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.

I don't understand people's obsessions.

I love a lot of people, understand none of them.

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

I don't mind being regarded as perverted and unnatural, but I would die if people thought I was a Democrat.

Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.

The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement.

It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.

What I really like seeing from the stage is people having their own moments, when people are doing some performance of their own.

People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.

I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.

I don't know who my three next opponents will be. A lot of people ask me that. You want to fight me? Earn it.

People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them in high school. No one ever left the neighborhood.

People always say "pop culture." As if we have some high culture to distinguish it from.

If people don't hold grudges, it means they just don't care what people do.

I just can't smile at people for money.

Fear causes people to draw back from situations. It brings on mediocrity, it dulls creativity, it sets one up to be a loser in life.

Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.

I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.

When newspapers are the principal vehicles of the wit and wisdom of a people, the higher graces of composition can hardly be looked for.

The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.

People who are obsessed with Jesus give freely and openly without censure. Obsessed people love those who hate them and who can never love them back.

People who are obsessed with Jesus do not consider service a burden. Obsessed people take joy in loving God by loving His people (Mt 13:44)(Jn 15:8).

The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

History is full of examples of people compromising their beliefs in order to keep themselves alive.

Nothing is sacred. Not even your own mother, not the Jewish martyrs, not even people starving of hunger. Laugh at everything, ferociously, bitterly, to exorcise the old monsters.

The dullness of certain people is sometimes a sufficient security against the attack of an artful man.

Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.

The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers.

People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other.

The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.

There is no more dangerous illusion than the fancies by which people try to avoid illusion.

People fall in love more easily when they are already troubled by another emotion because we know that any intense emotional state greatly increases the risk of falling in love.

Our economy is based upon people wanting more; their happiness on wanting less.

When people ask me about being portrayed onscreen by Leonardo DiCaprio, I always say, 'I love it - no matter how old I get, people are going to think that's what I look like.