For The People Quotes

Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.

No matter what the Constitution says, it won't endure if the people don't closely read it and demand that it be followed.

Eccentricity is like having an accent. It's what "other" people have.

With television, the image has been degenerated, no question. With the internet, commercials... people are much too cynical about image. It's stale. And all over the world, not just America.

Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds and foundations of all rational decisions.

Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.

Let's redefine scandal. Scandal is not who's dating who. Scandal is 1.2 million people living in tents in Haiti.

When I kiss a girl for a part, people think it's sexy. But if two guys kiss, suddenly there's a backlash. It's a double standard.

When you're a foreigner, at the beginning you are far away from the culture. Then, little by little, you start to interact with people, have friends, have a life, and then you feel more comfortable.

Follow your heart, your instincts. People might try to dissuade you from your passion, but no one can live your life but you.

People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas

You teach people how to treat you.

I set out to really build this universe of interfaith connectedness, where people could see that other people in different parts of the world are very much like them.

Your gut is your inner compass. Whenever you have to consult with other people for an answer, you're headed in the wrong direction.

Self-confidence carries conviction; it makes other people believe in us.

Many people surrender what is possible for what is comfortable.

The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.

A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.

There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.

As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.

I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.

It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

Many people begin coming to God once they stop being religious.There's only one master of the heart-Jesus, not religion.

Never water down or minimise the mighty Gospel of God by considering that people may be misled by certain statements. Present the Gospel in all its fullness and God will guard His own truth.

Fancy tortures more people than does reality

We live in an age where in politics, people can't disagree with each other without good faith being questioned, there is always an ulterior motive - in it for the money, advance a career.

We live in a country where there is a lot of animosity. If your politics is radical it antagonises. People might think I am overconfident. I look petulant when I stand my ground.

I love Fidel Castro...I respect Fidel Castro. You know why? A lot of people have wanted to kill Fidel Castro for the last 60 years, but that motherfucker is still here.

The only difference between me and the fans is I can't eat or drink during the game and you guys can't make moves. Besides that, we are pretty much the same people.

The power of people, when they focus on something positive, never fails to amaze me.

The holiness of God is traumatic to unholy people.

US policy toward Cuba [at the time] had two tracks. Track 1 was to assassinate Fidel Castro. Track 2 was to subvert the regime through people-to-people contact.

I think the art world will continue to be a place where people have a certain freedom and creativity to think about what's happening in Cuba.

When people, women included, hear that you are writing, they assume that it is simply a hobby to fill in the time between doing the washing-up and the ironing. It couldn't possibly be a profession.

Shut up!" Eve yelled from somewhere upstairs. "Jackass!" "You know, when people say that, I just hear the word awesome.

You're kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn't that the international language for smart people?"-Shane (Glass Houses)

Those policies [of Jean-Marie Le Pen ]I find repellent. I believe many people right across consist the world do. There is no future in that type of narrow minded racism and nationalism.

If you have to hire paid actors to impersonate people who politically support you, people don't actually natively politically support you. You are not a political animal that exists in nature.

When it starts to seem like you have popped into bed with a specific party, it makes it difficult for people to believe you are not doing someone else's bidding for them.

People have the natural capacity to affirm and embrace life in the most difficult of circumstances.

When people are blessed they discover that their lives matter, that there is something in them worthy of blessing.

I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.

You can spend the rest of your life being afraid of people rejecting you. You have to start by not rejecting yourself. You don’t deserve it.

I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got.

People can think whatever they think, but that's my strength to go forward.

Only disciplined people become free, but their discipline is not obedience to others: their discipline is obedience to their own inner voice. And they are ready to risk anything for it.

All your seriousness is about sandcastles. And you yourself will leave them one day, trampling them down, and you will not look back. The people who take it seriously miss the beauty of playfulness.

It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory.