We The People Quotes

The reason most folksongs are so atrocious is that they were written by the people.

I don't want an epitaph on my gravestone that says, 'He would have pursued some big dreams in his life, but other people wouldn't let him.

And the back of his anorak was leaping up and down, and people were chucking money to him. I said 'Do you earn a living doing that?' He said 'Yes, this my livelihood.'

If you work hard everyday and bust your tail on every play, eventually people will notice and word will get around.

There may not be a great job for [Aboriginal people] but whatever there is, they just have to do it, and if it’s picking up rubbish around the community, it just has to be done.

The people who have sacrificed their view in order to get to the top have very often left no footprints in the sands of time.

I believe the more difficult the circumstances, the more people will be inclined to trust those in charge at the moment.

When I go to see live music I tend to want to really listen to it, so when people get up and dance it's really irritating.

And I am too knowledgeable now to hurt people imprecisely

In the end, money should serve something greater than just money. It should serve you, your family, the people you want to touch.

Most people's lives are a direct reflection of their peer groups.

I think that people who can't believe in fairies aren't worth knowing.

I'm not a hater, I'm not one of those people. I do think it's dope when people get recognized for whatever it is that they do, so more power to everybody who got nominated.

The highly motivated young people who comprise the backbone of our military force truly are taking their place as one of America's greatest generations.

Success is what you envisage it to be. You have to go into any profession knowing what you want because people will place expectations on you and their idea of success could taint yours.

I think people get too comfortable, in just doing what they do every week. And I'm all about challenge and change, and I like to read the audience.

I don't think all people yearn for freedom, actually. I think they yearn for stability.

I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.

Tupac the son of the Black Panther, and Tupac the rider. Those are the two people inside of me. I was raised off those ideals.

I'm very active on Twitter and Instagram. I'm always posting pictures from set, and little clues and teasing people with fun things. It's awesome!

There's always going to be dreams and goals I have, but I never really tell people what they are

I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.

I do not believe in people owning guns. Guns should be owned only by the police and military. I am going to do everything I can to disarm this state.

I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself.

I think there's something really thrilling to having to get people laughing about something and then when you have them in that comfort space, you can drop the weight into the texture of the story.

It's exciting to watch people do and write and say what they feel like doing, writing and saying.

I felt the beginning of a passion, hopeless in the long run, but very nourishing, for identifying myself with people who were not my own, and whose lives were governed by ideas alien to mine.

Also, when I started racing he knew a lot of people and it was more easy for me to find the first bike, so I have a good chance for sure.

To change our laws and culture, the green movement must attract and include the majority of all people, not just the majority of affluent people.

The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.

People are always going to say stuff about you and there are always going to be crazy rumours out there, but as long as you know the truth, you're fine.

The truth has a way of changing people's plans.

I guess because people are more aware of who I am, they're going to wonder about my personal life.

I try to treat people the way I would like to be treated, but I can't worry about what everyone's going to think.

I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.

My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of thinking about people and the world that are different from my own, sometimes radically different.

I don't think I've ever been personally fulfilled performing. It's kind of a challenging thing; it's more of a sacrifice for the people that I love.

It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.

Film is like football - you join a team, get close to one or two people, then never hear from them again. I don't get emotionally involved. Do one, move on.

I'm disappointed in people in general.

The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.

People are able because they think they're able

No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas.

But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.

Why, he wondered, did people who had been asleep always want to make out that they were extremely wide-awake?

It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people's experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by one's own.

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

Nowhere is it written that NATO had to accept certain countries. All that would have been required to refrain from doing so was the political will. But people didn't want to.

All succeeds with people who are sweet and cheerful.

Unconsciously, perhaps, we treasure the power we have over people by their regard for our opinion of them, and we hate those upon whom we have no such influence.