For The People Quotes
I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas.
Self-esteem does not come from surrounding yourself with people and things that seem to increase your value. Real self-esteem is an integration of an inner-value with things in the world around you.
People sometimes pay with their lives for saying aloud what they think. In fact, one can even get killed for giving me information. I am not the only one in danger. I have examples that prove it.
People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homage to their servile and salivating roots own dogs.
Making films is - or should be - a very personal experience. You shouldn't listen to anybody, other than the people you choose to listen to.
People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things.
If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.
People seem always actually to know, with a degree of pain that has required the comfort of fairy tales, that when you are dressed in any particular way at all, you are revealed rather than hidden.
These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw, poster children for the human condition.
What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here.
What if you wake up some day, and you're 65... and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life?
Why do people always think they will be happier in the future, rather than embracing the thought for that hour, that day?
It is very disturbing to see people use Christianity and the Bible to support a certain political agenda, especially when one cannot connect that agenda with the authentic teachings of Christ.
I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find myself writing about them over and over again.
It always seemed to me that white people were judged as individuals. But if a Negro did something stupid or wrong, it was held against all of us.
I'm pretty used to people not liking having their picture taken. I mean, if you do like to have your picture taken, I worry about you.
Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.
I don't take myself as seriously as some people think, and I'd hate anyone to think I was preaching. That's the last thing I want.
People in the East Conference are starting to see how good the twins are. They make my job easy. I just go to the net and look for holes and they keep finding me.
I admire people who do things that are interesting to them, who don't have a strategy or a master plan or have a brand - I don't care about any of those things.
I listen a lot to how people speak. I've read a great many good books in my life. I had some excellent English teachers. Surely, those things were helpful.
The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth ... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed.
You can never have 'equality' between two things that are not equal by definition. And so, for example, you can have equality among 'people', but not between 'men' and 'women'.
People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg
Sinners often speak the truth. And saints have led people astray. Examine what is said, not the one who says it.
People looked to Kurt Cobain because his songs captured what they felt before they knew they felt it.
People are going to bash you while you're alive, and they're going to bash you when you're gone.
People ask me how did you choose the part and how did you prepare for this work? I just learned the lines and showed up; I don't know what else to say because that's all I know how to do.
I guess I prefer the laughs. I couldn't do a whole set of just shocks, but I like throwing a fastball inside every now and then to keep people on their toes.
We'll have these people hang out with us while we're doing our touring, and talk to them and let them speak their piece to the world.
It is an indescribable experience knowing that what you are doing will have an impact on the lives... of millions of people.
Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read - my own or other people's works - it all seems to me not short enough.
If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work.
If you want to make movies you need to think on a micro-micro level and figure out how to make them for nothing with people who really care about your movie and really want to make it.
It's great to express yourself and tell other people's stories and get into the minds of people who aren't like you.
One can criticize the Israeli government, but it is not fair to judge the people of Israel.
You can't just trot out a brown face or a Spanish surname and expect people are going to vote for your party or your candidate.
I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time.
Marriage is when two people are joined together to become one desperately boring person.