For The People Quotes

What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people [why] they hate him?

I do find it bizarre that people find it bizarre that I've grown up.

A lot of people that are always trying to be funny and "on" and performing are just hiding. It's just a cover for what they really are and how they really feel.

I hate politicians. I hate politics. But if I start to go into politics, I think I believe that I can serve more, I can help more people.

Remain dignified, dress well, be good to other people and you’ll be fine.

People need all the good memories they can keep with them in this world; they're a sort of steering apparatus in a life-boat.

I'm not one of these people who thinks everything in the past is great and everything modern is terrible. But I do think cities should be a mix of old things and new things.

Its like if you take acid, it burns out brain cells and they dont regrow. Rock is like that-it has killed beautiful people musically, physically and mentally.

I think there's going to be a very sudden shift in people's perception of the International Space Station, because suddenly it's going to look much, much bigger than it already is.

I don’t throw cell phones. I don’t hurt people, I only hurt myself.

Leaders never have to ask the people to, 'Come follow me.' The people believe just by watching his lead.

It always astounds me that over the course of my career, and having lived in four comedy cities - New York, Boston, San Francisco, and Los Angeles - there's very few people I haven't run into.

I love the people of Venezuela. I want that country to have freedom. I want it to have human rights and to be banned by a dictator like Nicolas Maduro is, to me, a badge of honor.

I believe that there are barriers, educational barriers, cultural barriers, societal barriers, that are keeping people from accessing the promise of a vibrant free enterprise economy.

Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions.

My point is, people really don't change very much.

The world would be a better place if people stopped voting for folksy candidates they could have a beer with and started voting for people smarter than they are.

People are rapidly losing hope and trust. They believe their government has been captured by special interests and no longer cares about them, and they are right.

There are definitely racial problems in this country [the USA]. Comedy is a way we can figure out how to solve it, and how to solve it without making people really angry.

I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down.

If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.

The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.

In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.

Some people think it's naive to think we can make love our new bottom line. What I believe is naive is thinking human civilization as we know it will survive another two hundred years if we do not.

I think God gave talent to different people in different areas.

there are some people who never acknowledge themselves in the wrong; God help them!

Few people ever kill for the right reasons, June. Most do it for the wrong reasons. I just hope you never have to be in either category.

The other thing is surrounding yourself with people that care for you. These are simple things, but they're powerful, and they've completely transformed who I am and how I perceive myself.

I put out a lot of ideas in the lyrics and the way I do my things. There's a lot of ideas floatin' around and people who know what it is. People will pick it up if they know what to pick up.

I get shocked by people smoking cigarettes sometimes. i get shocked by watching talk shows. people's moralities are so far below what i would consider standard.

I refuse to say things behind people's backs.

Things have become devalued to the point where people don't realize the repercussions, that they're devaluing themselves. It could end up bringing about chaos, a lawless situation.

Apart from a very close circle of friends, few people know my true self, and it's normal, I never put it into my music.

I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

I want to say to the people, if I am a star, the people made me a star. No studio, no person, but the people did.

The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.

People respect you because they feel you've survived hard times and endured, and although you've become famous, you haven't become phony.

I had such an intense relationship to every person. I still see people on the street and we lock eyes, and say "Oh my god!" and we just kiss and stay like that and sometimes cry.

People ask me what book politicians should read. They should read the life of Mahatma Gandhi.

People want more real artistes. They want girls who can actually sing and play an instrument and write their own songs - that's not fake and manufactured anymore".

people like to keep their little secrets to themselves. It's like growing mushrooms in the cellar and running down to take a look at them now and then.

Success is about making your life a special version of unique that fits who you are - not what other people want you to be.

I like hanging around people who knit. They are usually in a good mood. People who are staring into their iPhones *and* demanding your attention at the same time are not as much fun to be around.

I'm always asking friends what new music they're into, and I love showing people new talented artists.

I think as long as you're straight with people, as long as you honor ground rules, as long as you serve your readers, you're going to get the door opened for you.

I'm sure people are badmouthing me. I think one of the interesting parts about the criticism has been the tenor of "how dare he." How dare an insider speak critically about other insiders?

People have every right to be offended -- but that doesn't mean they get to take away your right to offend.

We're [Ocean Conservancy group] trying to convince people it's a bad idea to catch fish faster than they can reproduce. That should be a duh, but it's still going on.

I think that I've learned to relax, and trust in and hire very talented people, and trust in their abilities a little more.

I don't understand how people can take a gentle, loving life and treat it with such cruelty.