For The People Quotes

It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'

Ive worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. Im past the point where I worry about people liking me.

You never know how people are going to respond.

My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you,' but that's part of my charm.

I don't care about people who don't care about me. If people are negative or mean, then that's their issue. Screw them.

The hearings are just like a snake about to devour people.

God has virtually been made an illegal subject in that state institution most devoted to the shaping of the minds and values of our people - the public schools.

People crave laughter as if it were an essential amino acid.

We have to end the capitalist system. We have to make love our value. You are rich when you love and you are rich when you are giving away your time and what you have to help other people.

I am a Doctor, but above all else I consider myself an activist for peace, justice and care for all people.

Maybe I should go back to teaching school about crazy people instead of being one. (Jim Alvin)

Artists make worlds for people to walk through.

This is one of the reasons we need to transition: people can't validate an identity they can't see.

I can't control what people say or anything like that. I have to focus on what I can control and that's what I'm going to do.

I didn't know there was so many people in this world that knew of me.

I'm more interested in writing about the personal stories of people. Sometimes I don't agree with them.

people have a way of laughing at our deams until we make them come true.

Through my mind, is just the horror of these people. I had been held by them, I knew how violent they were.

Facebook and other social networking sites are bringing together spheres that used to be separate. People no longer have private and public lives; the line between the two is becoming blurred.

I don't think you can get an idea of what Israel is like until you get here. People don't realize what a great place it is.

Advertising gets such a bashing from the world. At parties you are always asked, 'Aren't you just selling people things they don't want?

Artists are the people for whom the world is not enough.

The effects of Twitter and Facebook and all those things on people's psychologies is a really interesting question to which nobody knows the answer.

My theory with the auctions has been to try to make them like a party, like a social event. If people are having a good time, talking with their friends, they're much more likely to bid.

To block the construction of centralized power projects, as not being 'appropriate' or 'sustainable' is to condemn billions of people to continued poverty and disease-and millions to premature death.

I like being around people who are good conversationalists.

A gentleman is one who is too brave to lie, too generous to cheat, and who takes his share othe world and lets other people have theirs.

Nail up some indecency in plain sight over your door; from that time forward you will be rid of all respectable people,the most insupportable folk God has created.

You know, in the suburbs, most people believe in gravity, but they don't have much of a sense of humor.

If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.

If I find a great idea, I work on it at the beginning, then bring in other people to make things work. Actually, I've always been good at getting out of work.

There is a big problem. The problem is the country borrowed too much. We went on a borrowing binge, there was a housing boom. You want to help people de-leverage and deal with those debts over time.

I think that bias is not a fixed thing. It's not as though some people are biased and others are not. It ebbs and flows. It can be manipulated. It changes according to a person's circumstances.

The large majority of faith-based people are decent, fair-minded people. We should not characterize people of faith as the adversaries of GLBT equality.

I can't tell you what it's like to be in Europe, for example, to be talking about the greatness of America. But the true greatness of America are the people.

I can't imagine what it would be to be president when the United States at war with yourself. People killing each other here in America on a massive basis. Just can't imagine what it would be.

I dare say the men would fight very well if properly officered, although they are an exceedingly dirty and nasty people.

Few things are as stimulating as other people's calamities observed from a safe distance.

There's this whole idea of perfection. What young girls don't realize is that these girls do have problems. It's good for people to realize everyone is human.

What people don't understand, they laugh at.

Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion.

I don't like to write a script unless I know who the artist is. A lot of people can do it without that, and that's cool, but I like to look at the art.

Some people are naturally thin and some people are naturally heavier. It doesn't mean that bigger is healthier, or much thinner is healthier, it's on an individual basis.

I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

When people say, Your music was the music of the Seventies, I say, So was discoteque. The Seventies was also the highest peak of heavy metal. Pick a genre - they were all alive.

In any nation in which people's rights have been subordinated to the rights of the few, in any totalitarian nation, the first institution to be dismantled is the jury. I was, I am, afraid.

I always say to people that working full time and being a mom is probably the hardest job, because as a mom you think about your child 24/7.

I think a whole lot of stuff gets by people - I could name half a dozen groups that do songs that are openly supportive of experimentation with drugs, nobody ever said anything to them.

It sucks the way the world works. You can do a hundred things for people, but you do one bad mistake and everyone crucifies you and that's all they want to remember.

I think a lot of people have too much time on their hands.