For The People Quotes

Barbie is my fashion icon. People think I'm Paris Barbie - and it's a compliment.

I'm totally normal. I think it's obnoxious when people demand limos or bodyguards. I eat at McDonald's or Taco Bell. My parents always taught us to be humble. We're not spoiled.

All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.

Actors are professionals who deal with people's emotions and their thoughts.

I think people are inherently self-aggrandizing, pleasureseeking, unempathetic, self-serving, greedy and lustful.

I will never forget the will of the people who believed in me wherever I went during the election campaign.

Authority is granted to people who are perceived as authoring their own words, their own actions, their own lives, rather than playing a scripted role at great remove from their own hearts.

I think the church needs to be much more countercultural than that and invite people into slowing down, into a "Be-still-and-know-that-I-am-God" mindset.

The bottom line is that there is a lot more that could and should be done to help people with nutrition and exercise.

I've always wanted to stay involved with young people. I never bought into the idea that entertainers owe nothing to their audience except a good performance.

Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.

If a country forgets where it came from, how will its people know who they are?

People who stand up against wars aren't necessarily always wrong.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Especially being around young people, ... It helps put things in the proper perspective as you return back to the chaos of politics.

I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.

People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'

And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.

You do not have to be in a church to be saved, but to continue in the things of God, you must be in some type of fellowship with other Christian people.

Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level. . . . A writer is someone who writes.

But like Mrs. Ford, I think that the more people realize what a difficult and what an insidious disease it is, the sooner people will start to correct that situation.

I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books.

If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies

There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.

Oral history interviews allow us to document and chronicle people's stories; stories that might otherwise not be included in the historical record.

Cats of great personality are always found in association with sensitive, cat-conscious people; it is a two-way process of immense mutual benefit.

Our tax code encourages people to raise thoroughbred horses, not children.

We must act together, as a united people... For the birth of a new world. Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

The phrase "work-life balance" tells us that people think that work is the opposite of life. We should be talking about life-life balance.

People think that just because you're a center, you're not as smart as the guards or the smaller guys.

What right do they have to say "we the people" rather than we the States?

Facts are, insurance ratings are really dependent on the notion that some people are higher risk than others.

We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.

All things to all people is nothing to everyone.

People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.

The truth is I've worked a lot of things people would consider shitty jobs but I've never really hated any of them.

A writer, or any artist, can’t expect to be embraced by the people [but] you just keep doing your work - because you have to, because it’s your calling.

There are times when I have to take, I call it a “silence bath,” where I shut off all of the external gadgets. I go walk around, talk to people, and just live life for a while.

I think it's going to be great if people can buy a ticket to fly up and see black sky and the stars. I'd like to do it myself-but probably after it has flown a serious number of times first!

Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more.

Have you noticed that the cleverest people at school are often not the ones who succeed in life?

People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc.

This gets back to the fundamental lesson of political survival that Bill Clinton taught me, which is if you make it about the American people's lives instead of your life, you're going to be okay.

A lot of people relate me to the blues but I don't think it's a hindrance at this point. I've been doing it long enough that I can do different things and be accepted.

To live passionately, we ought to be able to look once again at the people we once cared for deeply and painfully.

lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights.

Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects.

The mountain represents your purpose in life. You and your people will enjoy the greatest success and satisfaction if you relentlessly pursue your purpose.

You learn, right, a lot of people's problems - why they get upset, why they get down, why they turn to drink - is because they can't say one word and it's N-O, no.

It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans.