With People Quotes

I just love seeing people embrace freedom, faith, and courage in the face of enormous odds.

I love my music and recording people.

I'm an old man now. I can't believe it. I'm listening to all sorts because I'm producing people.

People who make films don't think they have any obligation to help bring (perpetrators) to justice. They are only interested in art, not in justice.

Every prime minister... has the responsibility to provide security for his people.

Political leaders can help change the psychological climate which affects the quality of relationships among people.

People who are mean or unkind or rigid - think about it - cannot laugh at themselves. If we can't laugh at ourselves and the human condition, we're going to be mean.

People love discovering you. The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs, you're their friend.

People loved to talk about how Frank O'Hara didn't really care about getting published. That doesn't jibe with my experience.

All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind.

I'm trying to create artwork that makes people, and myself, think about judgment as a reflex. This is something that must be changed.

I wanted people to know that I was making what I was making just on a sampler, basically.

Maybe my great struggle, and it's probably not anything different from too many other people, but it certainly is what drives the music, is a hugely internal one.

If you ask me what people want from me, they would probably just want me to be true to what I'm doing.

It's amazing how right you can be about a person you don't know; it's only the people you do know who confuse you.

I always expect people to behave much better than I do. When they actually behave worse, I am frankly incredulous.

I’ve never wanted to meet anyone I’ve been introduced to. I want to meet all the other people.

I don't always understand other people's motives. I will repeat that for my own benefit, if you don't mind. I don't always understand other people's motives.

I think the most interesting New Yorkers are the people who were not born here.

I get inspired by the notion of transforming people into extraordinary versions of themselves.

San Francisco is really fun and liberal, and it's my kind of politics. It's like being Jewish in front of Jewish people.

The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.

The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it.

The main thing about the word jazz, is that it's very limiting to what people are doing.

Hearing Oscar Peterson was something that resonated within me. There are so many musicians I've been fortunate to play with. The people that inspire me are the people I play with.

Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to.

I didn't like not having work and not having people return my calls.

I wanted to be an actress. I think it had a lot to do with being a kid and watching how every time my dad would stand up to talk people would applaud... that was pretty cool.

I was trained by my husband. He said, If you want a thing done go. If not send. I belong to that group of people who move the piano themselves.

Government exists for one purpose: to make things better for all people.

We need emotional outlets in this country, and the more artistic people we develop the better it will be for us as a nation.

Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.

The word communist, of course, has become a rallying cry for certain people here just as the word Jew was in Hitler's Germany, a way of arousing emotion without engendering thought.

It is impossible to be a cynic if you live a good deal with young people. Fundamentally, every young person has a feeling that the future is going to hold something of value.

An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the growth of well-being among the people of all nations.

When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.

More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat.

There is a widespread understanding among the people of this nation, and probably among the people of the world, that there is no safety except through the prevention of war.

People can only make you inferior with your consent.

To tell the people in the West not to use their cars means that these people may never see another soul for weeks and weeks nor have a way of getting a sick person to a doctor.

I believe that it is a great mistake not to stand up for people, even when you differ with them, if you feel that they are trying to do things that will help our country.

One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education.

Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people.

We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.

We cannot exist as a little island of well-being in a world where two-thirds of the people go to bed hungry every night.

I do not think I will ever become deadened, because I live in other people's lives, I must admit there are times when it weighs medown because I can't do some of the things I want.

Franklin [D. Roosevelt] had a good way of simplifying things. He made people feel that he had a real understanding of things and they felt they had about the same understanding.

Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action.

I have complete faith in the American people's ability if they know and if they have leadership.

I feel quite sure that what the American people lack is knowledge.