For The People Quotes

Young people can be annoying, let's face it. But they can also be really refreshing to be around and full of enthusiasm.

There is a level of fame that is really unmanageable. But most of the people who experience that level of fame are compensated in other ways. Private villas and chauffeured boats.

Actors in general are pretty good bullshit artists; we're good at just chewing the fat, interacting with people. So we're good ambassadors for movies.

The less people know about me in reality, the more they can accept of me as a character.

It's a mystery why certain people find certain things funny.

My family are all storytellers, and I think I inherited a lot more of that gene than other people in my family. I guess I was fun to have around.

I like when people know exactly, have a good sense of themselves, and know exactly what's good for them, I admire that, but I don't have anywhere near that kind of perspective on my own.

I had [at school] my own little posse of people that all felt weird together so it wasn't so lonely.

I'm alienated from this world because its weird and I don't want to be a part of it. I want to be part of the people that are more imaginative and crazy.

Why people pick me for the roles that they do is a bit of a mystery.

The more money you give to people the better; and the less advice.

I think a lot of people take a scholarly approach where they feel like you're supposed to study things that depress you.

In a capitalist system, things are valued by what people will pay for them.

There's nothing worse than people talking about theories and humor.

I don't walk around talking about my life and spouting my philosophy to people I don't know. I mean, if I get to know them, I'll talk for hours. I guess I like a lower-key scene.

A lot of powerful people in Washington may think it's a crazy-leftist-fringe position to think the intellectual authors of a torture regime should be investigated and prosecuted.

Satire is meant to have teeth; satire is meant to be dangerous. But it also happens to be fun because subversion and telling the right kind of people to go to hell is supposed to feel good.

The people who say they're for democracy want nothing to do with democracy.

People say friends don't destroy one another. What do they know about friends?

I just started writing stuff to kill time on summer evenings. This is why I'm always telling people who ask me what they need to do to succeed to give up, do something else.

In some aspects of alternative medicine we are fighting an almost medieval belief in magic but debunking such beliefs is like telling people that the tooth fairy is sniffing glue.

The first lecture of each new year renews for most people a light stage fright.

Every man carries a wound. I have never met a man without one. No matter how good your life may have seemed to you, you live in a broken world full of broken people.

If you really want to break from the pack, you have to risk being perceived to be as eccentric as these people. You have to think exceptionally-a LOT!

Strange, he thought, how seldom people tend to look up" - Will

We've been a band longer than most of the people reading this have been alive.

I think you get people taking things to excess in all fields, doctors, lawyers - -it happens to all kinds of people.

The people of the Southern States now own near five millions of these negroes, and they are worth to them near three millions of dollars.

I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of regard for other people and their prejudices.

It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater.

This may seem simple, but you need to give customers what they want, not what you think they want. And, if you do this, people will keep coming back.

People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.

People regard art too highly, and history not enough

There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.

Not many people realise this, but you don't actually learn anything at art college any more; however, you do have to go there to find that out.

It's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving.

It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts.

Only by trying on other people's clothes do we find what size we are.

If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.

Expert victimologists estimate that 91.2 percent of people in North America and Europe now qualify as victims, at least in their own minds.

The last thing we want is a monolithic viewpoint where six people are standing before a president saying the same thing over and over again.

Don't treat people as you think they are, treat them as you think they are capable of becoming.

I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain.

People want the truth, even if they disagree.

I'm looking for trouble. A lot of people get to be a certain age and they just kind of lose interest or they give up. But I'm looking for trouble.

I want to sell to people my own age, because that's the way I write songs.

People have the right to say what they want to.

Our thoughts are unseen hands shaping the people we meet. Whatever we truly think them to be, that's what they'll become for us.

People will go to endless trouble to divorce one person and then marry someone who is exactly the same, except probably a bit poorer and a bit nastier. I don't think anybody learns anything.