With People Quotes

I don't only long for the thrill of being in the middle of a war, I must understand it; I must make other people understand.

I doubt most people could survive being defined by the least advisable sexual encounter they've engaged in.

To those people (who criticize me), get off your a** and make a record.

You never know how things are going to go. I think you hope that people are going to dig what you do and that you're going to get the chance to do it on a really comfortable level.

In the age of social media and dating apps, so many people are able to hide behind their Instagram page or their Raya page or Facebook.

I want to be happy. i want to make people happy. i do not need to be rich to do that.

It is terrifying to people when women step up and start owning the story that they have not owned. And I'm seeing so much of this, and it is a seismic shift.

I remember being a teenager and being really impressed by "let's sit around and b*tch" people, and I have so little time for those people nowadays.

When you connect with people, they want to help you.

I think a good role model has to be sexy. Real, empowered, self-possessed women are sexy. When you're really in control of your choices, your mood, your body, and your opinions, people find you sexy.

How do we let people pay for music?

I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.

Bands like Nirvana had theatrical sensibilities, playing with image, challenging assumptions people were making about them, the apex being Kurt Cobain in a dress to make a point.

I am a huge animal lover. Growing up, my mother and I rescued countless animals - dogs, cats, birds, rabbits, even a turtle. I have been accused of caring more about animals than I do about people.

I think people don't often realize how much goes into being a male dancer. It's athletic and it's hard. It's not just men wearing tights, or wanting to be around women.

I would remind people on the planet that this is the only one we have, and we need to take care of it.

You never want to be pigeonholed into something and have people think, "Oh, that's the guy we call for this particular thing."

I left home at 14 and I have friends who joined the navy and the army performing troops at 9. I know people [like that]. It's a very straightforward character.

Love for me is comfort. I feel most loved and most capable of giving love when I am around people or in places that make me comfortable.

I have different routines for different types of chaos. When I find myself swamped with work and surrounded by people, I try to carve out time to walk my dog alone so I can organize my thoughts.

I don't want to be in magazines everyday, because I don't want people to get used to one thing.

The market economy succeeds not because some people's interests are suppressed and other people are kept out of the market, but because people gain individual advantage from it.

It doesn't matter who you sleep with, it's how you treat other people in this world.

I think people are starting to think of me less as an actor and more as a writer.

It's a silly thing, but I like to understand people through their obsessions.

Many states have laws against cousin marriage, which I think are ridiculous - people should be allowed to make that choice.

I'm fighting for the right to get married. For other people.

I think that white people are not seen as people with racial histories.

If you can't do anything but fight, so every single solitary thing, every single solitary day, then the privilege of dreaming becomes something that only a few people have.

When people ask me what I do for a living, I always say, "I get rejected for a living." And that's true.

And a lot of times in slam poetry I feel like people are so worried about the performance that the words might not be as strong.

People who have seen me read usually come up afterwards and invite me to be a part of something.

People in real life cuss God out when they're angry. That's all real.

Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends.

I guess if you go around with famous people you are assured of some reflected (or deflected) glory.

A popular writer writes about what people think. A wise writer offers them something to think about.

San Francisco is the place where most people were last seen

Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors.

Half of all people who go bankrupt cite a medical problem as one of the things that drove them into bankruptcy.

All the people that still believed in me, after seven years - it's a long time.

An order to fire on people that do not fire on you is a completely illegal order.

The ingredients for another Palestinian uprising are always there because as long as there is so much violence it is bound to explode. How, I cannot tell. But people will not accept it forever.

I think these questions about what will happen are questions for activists and about the agency of people in the course of events. This is not a question for a journalist, but for activists.

I write poems like some people sing in the bathroom.

As people of color, we're left out of history. History is sort of told around us. We're bystanders, we're passive, we're observers. We're never the center of our history.

People assume thoughts and processes about you that may have nothing to do with you whatsoever, but they make political assumptions and assertions about who you are based on your choice of partner.

Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.

I'm always flattered and honored when people cover my music or sing my songs, no matter where it is.

People love music, they're always going to love music, it's our job to consistently push ourselves as artists to keep delivering stuff for people to stay engaged with.

I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies.