For The People Quotes

Everyone knows almost everything about me. I make it very clear that I'm cool with people knowing all my personal life through my songs.

Sometimes I think we'd all be better off if the people who mean well would just creep away and die.

Racist people, interestingly, are never as polite as smokers. Have you noticed that? Smokers always go, "Do you mind if I smoke? Oh, you do? Okay, I'll go outside and have a cigarette."

I don't want to get rich. I just want to play my music for the people.

People aren't good or bad. They just do good or bad things. Your only hope is to know which is which.

Whether people grow fat by joking, or whether there is something in fat itself which predisposes to a joke, I have never been quite able to determine.

If a people have no word for something, either it does not matter to them or it matters too much to talk about.

I was seeing people that were older who didn't create any kind of foundation in their lives, and it scared me to death.

I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child.

It's hard to notice things without people noticing me and that takes some getting used to.

The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.

Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.

Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.

About mistakes it's funny. You got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs they get mad.

All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches of other people.

Movie people are possessed by demons, but a very low form of demons.

Sorrow like a ceaseless rain Beats upon my heart. People twist and scream in pain-- Dawn will find them still again; This has neither wax nor wane, Neither stop nor start.

Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.

God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.

If experience has taught me anything, its not to put ANYTHING past people in government.

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.

It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves, either in imagination or practice.

Digital photography and Photoshop have made it very easy for people to take pictures. It's a medium that allows a lot of mediocre stuff to get through.

Yeah, the New York Times is very intellectual and very, very prestigious, but it doesn't reach the market that People magazine does

Philosophy became a gloomy science, in the labyrinth of which people vainly tried to find the exit, called The Truth.

Well, a lot of people don't want to be quoted. But keep in mind that Bob Woodward did all of his Watergate reporting with anonymous sources, and we know how that turned out.

Part of ego is displaying the ego. I've got ego, and I think I'm really good. But maybe I fall down in trying to sell it to people.

We do not live in a revolutionary time. People are not prepared to contest power.

People never remeber happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.

I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant crisis.

I know a good many people, I think, who are bigots, and who know they are bigots, and are sorry for it, but they dare not be anything else.

The young people have read my book. Now I have no chance.

Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.

I liked Bach played the way people expect Chopin to be played, and vice versa.

In our country we must trust the people to hear and see both the good and the bad and to choose the good.

If you take stands in any way and people feel that you have any success in - a following, why those who disagree with you are going to feel very strongly about it.

The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government.

I want to stand out. After my career is over, I want people to say, 'He was different.' It's not to be outrageous. I just want people to know that when I played ball, I was having fun.

There are real people behind the [Bible] stories.

The digital world is developing with such force and such a pace that you simply can't ban or control it. People want to be globally connected.

That's an amazing gift as an actor - to be able to say I have an audience in so many countries in the world and that people know my work.

People love to talk about how the '70s are the only time they made movies about characters, and adult movies, and complicated people. But in the '80s, they got away with some of those too.

People pay all that money to sit in a chair in the theater mainly because it is a respectable way to see and experience things they cannot see and experience in their own lives.

It's pretty easy to hear what people are physically responding to versus what's just flat as a pancake in the room when it comes to jokes.

Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.

The person who takes the first step in a conflict toward the other, those are brave people.

People can be a fine substitute for other dogs. But I think that if they had to choose, dogs by and large would choose the company of other dogs.

I'm so interested in the fact that we really don't know anybody. We think we know the people close to us, but we don't, we really don't.

I look at people like musical instruments. I set people to music.

I like the connection with fans and people who have been supportive of me. And I love the idea of real feedback and a two-way street, which is very, very modern.