People Quotes

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

A lot of people say, 'Why do health-care reform when the deficits are so big?' But that is when we've got to do it.

It is very clear that the people in Afghanistan do not want the Taliban back.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

People say that to me and I think what unites all my characters is that they are hurt; it's most accurate to say I play characters that are hurt but are responding to their environment.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we."

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

People say I stole a lot of bases. I stole the bases for a reason. I crossed the plate.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.

I think people change, but the media, they never allowed me to change. They never allowed me to be a better person.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

I don't argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus' message was simple.

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

I am not thinking that because people say I am great that I really am great. I am just doing a job, just like everybody else. The only difference is that a lot more people see what I do.

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

When people say 'You're so beautiful' it makes me want to kill myself! As an actress you want to be seen for what you do, for the characters you can play, otherwise I'd be a model.