The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like 'you want to do this again'?

Real French people don't bake! At least they don't bake anything complicated, finicky, tricky or unreliable.

And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.

I didn't work very much when they were young, and I had the luxury to be able to do that. Most people can't.

The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.

However formidable a military power you may be, you cannot impose upon a people anything against their will.

I would never complain that Hollywood is racist when I'm one of the people touted as a welcome entity there.

I think people are surprised when I string two sentences together. But I had a fiercely academic upbringing.

I always feel like I don't know how to express myself. I need to be with people that understand my language.

As far as rap goes, I grew up in Hollis, Queens, so early influences were people like Run DMC and LL Cool J.

Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.

Give young people a greater voice. They are the future and they are much wiser than we give them credit for.

One person can't change the world. But Thom Yorke can, because he's two people. Both of them are Thom Yorke.

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

I have found that by trusting people until they prove themselves unworthy of that trust, a lot more happens.

Most people that do play nowadays hit really hard. It was good to get someone that hit really hard early on.

I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

I realize that I will never fully understand the millions of bizarre ways that music brings people together.

I have a handful of people that I have dated that I don't follow, but I will go and see what they are up to.

Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.

Once you've been booked, people in Hollywood say, 'Oh he must be good.' All the while you're the same actor.

The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.

People are going to have their opinions. Whether it's good or bad, I don't really think about it either way.

There is no reason at all why there aren't enough people to guard New Orleans and to help stabilise Baghdad.

We believe it is the duty of the vanguard political movement which brings change to educate people's outlook

I don't see how you could get used to people screaming in your face, and anyone who says different is lying.

If it seems like you can see farther than most people, it is because you're standing on shoulders of giants.

People as old and powerful as he should never be given someone to love. For Anna he would destroy the world.

People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.

When you reach a certain age, suddenly there are lots of people younger than you, which is really startling.

I feel like I've been fortunate enough that I've gotten to meet and work with some really passionate people.

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.

Value is a perception not a calculation. Value is something people feel, not something we tell them they get

Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.

I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.

People get together and go to the movies or on hikes, but everyone maintains their own independent domicile.

The people accusing me of being productive don't know how hard it is for me to just bend my elbow sometimes.

Why are some people born with a fire in the belly, while others need something to get their pilot light lit?

Well, if everything stays the same forever, you stop enjoying what you've got. And stop appreciating people.

You have to challenge people to reconsider what is art, what is taste. Because it's someone's point-of-view.

Dear young people, Christ asks you to be wide awake and alert, to see the things in life that really matter.

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.

People would say to me, “Hey man, you look just like Paul McCartney”, and I'd say: “I wish I had his money!”

I don't make 'issue' films. I like making films about rebels or pioneers or people that are doing something.

People recognize me from everything and as soon as I think I know where they know me from, I'm always wrong.

America has been killing people on this continent since it was started. This country is not worth dying for.

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.

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