For The People Quotes

Small scale is critical to local life, to the ability of local people to control what happens where they live.

I taught writing classes at the University of Pennsylvania for a number of years and I realized that all you can do is encourage people and give them assignments and hope they will write them.

The truth came slowly like a story told by people interrupting each other.

We may be reaching the end of the era in which individual movies meant something to people. In the new era, movies may just mean a barrage of images.

The celebrity syndrome. When people forget who they are and start to believe what other people say about them.

Intelligent people discuss ideas. Fools discuss how people should behave.

People destroy what they love.

You want to know if the heart of a man or a woman can contain enough love for more than one person? ... I think it's perfectly possible as long as one of those people doesn't turn into ... a Zahir.

We must at all costs avoid saying no because people prefer those who say yes, and this allows us to survive in hostile territory.

In reality things reveal nothing to us. It is people who, by looking into at things, discover a way of penetrating the Soul of the World.

In Europe people don't worry about the body.

I never want to fake it. That's my whole thing.

People have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves. Finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered.

People should just be aware of how they are eating... yesterday I had a McDonald's breakfast and pizza too - but that's bad.

You can't predict what's gonna happen, you can't predict if people are going to participate, you can't predict if there'll be interference.

Some people started to call me "the King of No" because with Daft Punk we were saying "no" to everything.

Cheese for dessert is rather like Paradise Lost in that everyone thinks he ought to like it, but still you don't notice too many people actually curling up with it.

We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be.

I have seen water availability change drastically in my own lifetime. Around the world, millions of people are already living in a true water crisis.

People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean.

What does sharing music mean? It means playing it for people.

Liverpool was an industrial town, a poor town. The people fought hard for what they wanted to achieve and there was a hunger there, and that hunger has remained with the musicians.

I feel much more respected in Europe than I do in the States from the press and from the people. Americans expect me to win every match I play.

I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think.

Work in nightclubs was interesting. There were interesting people and places, but by and large, the commercial music experience.

Guns arent the problem; sick people are.

You should be able to grab people with ideas.

It's always funny to me how your movie becomes no longer yours and people interpret it how they want and react how they want to react to it, and it's fun to kind of watch that happen.

It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.

In post modern culture, people not only have their own views, they think they are entitled to their own facts.

The world is divided into two kinds of people, those who spend a great deal of time saving money, and those who spend a great deal of money saving time.

Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage.

I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far.

The trouble with treating people as equals is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to you.

I'm better about things than about people. I'm more interested in people, but I'm better at ideas.

When it rains manna from heaven, some people put up an umbrella. Others reach for a big spoon.

People are usually pretty hungry after a funeral. I guess it's because we all realize that time is running out and we better eat all we can. Please don't mention that to my mother.

To people in my industry I'm usually a guy that tries to generate his own projects and I remain very elusive when people try and attach me to big projects.

People who achieve access to the deepest roots of their freedom can completely change.

I'm very wary of large groups of people getting together and trying to believe the same thing. It never seems to end well, whether it's political or religious or whatever.

The prospect of getting rich is highly motivating, and few people get rich without taking a gamble.

There are people who say, 'Oh, he's a crook.' But I'm not a crook.

I'm putting my consciousness towards trying to teach people through pictures and sculptures that there's something better in the world. That's what the world needs more of.

It's quite an unfair thought that Microsoft are trying to control our gaming, they're trying to force us to be online all the time. [People] didn't really think that through.

My belief is that PowerPoint doesn't kill meetings. People kill meetings.

The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.

People should have an escape valve for their money, their assets. If you have substantial financial assets, the government is going to confiscate the purchasing power of those assets and spend it.

When placed in the same system, people, however different, tend to produce similar results.

Grain that is used to feed animals that end up on our tables as turkeys and hams could have gone to feed starving people.

As an investor-entrepreneur, I’ve always tried to be contrarian, to go against the crowd, to identify opportunities in places where people are not looking.