For The People Quotes

When we went into the New England states, people were talking about the new sound of Flatt & Scruggs, but we had been doing that sound for 20 years.

I can't go to the cinema. I go to the bathroom in a petrol station and people come in there for autographs. It's tough but I knew that was going to be the case.

I believe that we have a responsibility to make culture available for all people, not only those who can afford to go to the movies.

If you read the life of great men and women who made important changes in history, there are two common features: One, they were angry at the state of affairs and, two, they were people of faith.

I definitely prefer to be in a band. There's too many solo people, and bands are suffering. There's too many great bands that have split up because somebody's got an ego, and then he goes solo.

I'm operating in the gap between the trajectory of modernity and the trajectory of modernism. So what people think is design is not design, it's my attempt to engage with the trajectory of modernity.

It's interesting, the more successful you become the more people want to give you stuff for nothing.

I believe the test of government is the contentment of the people.

Some people say that they read the first 20 pages, and then decide if they want to do the film or not. But, I have to read the entire thing cause anything can change in a script.

Most people focus on forgiving others, thinking there isn't a need for self-forgiveness, particularly if they see themselves as a victim.

People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.

She never utters a sound even when she's crying, and that makes me a little sad. Doesn't seem right. When you cry, people should hear you. The world should stop.

People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense-words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions-words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History

Aspiration gets stuck in some people. It's difficult to think yes. Or up. When all you feel is fight or run.

People thought once Obama got into office that racism was over with. But, what we ended up learning was that it just came more into the light.

Music is an emotion and it makes you feel a certain way. Some songs make you want to dance, while some make you think. Some songs are positive, while some people see those songs as negative.

The voices of the people are the voices of God.

Finding like-minded people is very important. It's hard to be a happy meal in a room full of sad people.

Exercise is for people who can't handle drugs or alcohol.

The larger picture is really to swing people's awareness of what really is moral.

I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.

When I've had a meltdown, people will say to me, "Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor."

My work cuts through racial, class, geographic, and ethnic separations to directly connect to the heart, mind, and emotion with people.

When you make many films with the same actors you can develop a special understanding with them. I love working with people I know and that I trust.

The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.

To finalize, the purpose of an election is to hear the will of the people, not to fabricate votes.

What I do is called 'fishing.' If it was easy, we would refer to it as 'catching,' and there would be a lot more people doing it.

We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning about the Holocaust, which unhappily, many of them do not know about.

The basic issue is whether the financial elite or the government on behalf of the people should have the profit from creating money.

I want to interact with my fans, and I want to let people know what I'm doing and stuff like that because I'd want to know.

It's so hard for people to even believe that there was a lesson to be learned at all, because they just think I'm wrong.

My goal is to get on the national team. People joke that we'll be able to go to Beijing in 2008, but it's just jokes right now. Hopefully I'll be able to make it a reality.

I can't picture myself being the people I always looked up to.

I'm surprised that I actually pulled off the recording, getting all those people at the same time.

Hmmm, completely a-religious - atheist. I find that people seem to think religion brings morals and appreciation of nature. I actually think it detracts from both.

You can't help but just be aware that things might not always be as good as they are, because people's feelings about others can turn on a dime.

Do you know what they call people who hoard books? Smart.

People who stay in the same town with the same friends for their entire lives never get a chance to find out who they can really be, because they will always be considered as who they were.

Some people can touch your life for a brief moment but will leave an imprint for a lifetime.

What interests me is the way people regard themselves. When we are 15, we all feel as if we are beginning to become somebody else.

The more you get into conversations with people, you find out they've been brainwashed by the news and they don't actually know any better.

People in my hometown seldom called me piao liang, [beautiful] because my smaller eyes were a far cry from the wide irises of the most beloved television actresses.

It seemed to me that people do a rather good job of creating levels of hell all by themselves, and this was something worth writing about.

If I can make something real and it's appreciated and accessible to other people, I'm happy.

People are a lot more open than even they think they are. And I feel like I carry a heavy story about where I come from and those roots, but also what I like as a thinker.

I'm really awkward when people recognize me. I'm not good at it, and for the most part it hadn't happened to me until 'True Blood,' and then, all of a sudden, it started happening all the time.

I'm in a position where - I mean, not a lot of people are in a very fortunate position - where I kind of have the power to choose what I want to do in a way.

I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste,in fear, and had brought about their own destruction

Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?

A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom