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The time for arguing about the powers the people want is over. It's time now to use the powers that we have.
The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.
The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.
Cults make people sing so hard for so long - because it over-oxygenates the blood and sets them up to faint.
We need more people to go into business and fewer wasting our lives becoming bureaucrats and civil servants.
In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.
The people who are the best in the world specialize at getting really good at the questions they don't know.
Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance.
I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the broken skin.
People like Chris Nolan are shooting isolated sequences in IMAX. Those cameras are the size of a Volkswagen.
There are people who have let the problems of today lead them to conclude that for them life is not the way.
Finding the leaders of the future is a question of recognizing those people who give leadership in a crisis.
I really want people to understand that nobody is perfect and that things happen in life beyond our control.
Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.
People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth.
There are a lot of wankers, and a lot of people who think they are really hardcore and cool but they're not.
I just want to give people something to dance to, and something to cry to, and laugh to and fall in love to.
I'm a director and a writer, and I'm used to having my way. I'm not used to being a vessel for other people.
And as an afterthought, this too must be told: Some people have taken pure bullshit and turned it into gold.
A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
I know all too well that people only see what they want to see and remember only what they want to remember.
Hopefully, that people could see a progression in my performances because that's how it's always felt to me.
Mind over matter. Weak minded people are easily influenced. Strong minded people you can't break their will.
People always assume that things are just handed to me, but I've had to prove myself, every inch of the way.
The Age of Reason was responsible for making more people into infidels than any other book except the Bible.
I don't want people to say, 'Something is true because Tyson says it is true.' That's not critical thinking.
Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not.
I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.
No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.
We meet no ordinary people in our lives. If you give them a chance, everyone has something amazing to offer.
I like lecturing and going around the world and giving talks and I like doing consulting and helping people.
We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.
If I can learn a couple of phrases in Italian but do mostly weird, absurd music things, people will like it.
I used to be the kind of person who needed to have a lot of people around. That's where I found my serenity.
Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol.
There are so many people who write really interesting work and try super hard and still don't get published.
Someday you'll find someone special again. People who've been in love once usually do. It's in their nature.
Whether I scare some people or not, I don't give a hoot. If you're not scared by now, nothing can scare you.
People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.
You see guys getting in trouble, but you also see the good in people. It's just a matter of always learning.
If people see me in some sort of niche, then that's fine. As long as it's not "The Naked Guy." I don't care.
Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust.
People used to believe only a professional could do tiling or install track lighting. That's utter nonsense.
The people on this planet who end up doing nothing are those who never realized they couldn't do everything.
The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so.
Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.
Mitt Romney said he's not concerned about the very poor. What he means is people making less than a million.
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
The only people who should use the possessive 'we' are kings, newspaper editors, and persons with tapeworms.