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So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.
Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.
The American people...have a stake in non-conformity. For they know that the American genius is non-conformist.
Tough times never last, but tough people do. You might add, "You're tougher than you give yourself credit for."
Being in L.A. is great because there are so many weird people out there, so you can just blend in. I like that.
The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
To be the people of God without regeneration, is as impossible as to be the children of men without generation.
He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.
Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.
Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
There are so many great artists that are doing interesting things, that I don't want to focus on boring people.
People have alleged that I have inspired many young people over the years, but I say, it was just the opposite.
We're constantly being told what other people think we are, and that's why it is so important to know yourself.
I always was intrigued with writing my own stuff, and I was always really bad at learning other people's stuff.
These people didn't know anything about black people, so the only thing they could imagine was the worst thing.
I often tell young people that as a writer you are very powerful, that you can make absolutely anything happen.
Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.
There are some people in this world that believe being gay is a choice. It's not a choice, we're born this way.
The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become
I can't - and won't - impose my beliefs on others, either verbally or otherwise. I'm not going to judge people.
People little dream of how their affairs react on the body. There is a mental correspondence for every disease.
I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions.
There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
Being engaged with life. One has to develop a poet's eye for perfect moments, moments that most people pass by.
Confronted with a choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
I think people who come from abuse and/or people who have mental illnesses, have terrible self-esteem problems.
Most people can’t stomach silence; it provides too much opportunity to think about things they prefer to avoid.
People who try to predict the future by extrapolating in a line of more of what exists - they are always wrong.
Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.
I hope that people of all faiths will start looking for our too-invisible children who are crying out for help.
On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.
Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.
I think it's just entertainment for people that are interested in the form. To sing along to and be psyched by.
I've borrowed tons of jewelry. Most people [in Hollywood] do. But it's your responsibility to keep track of it.
Half of all people who go bankrupt cite a medical problem as one of the things that drove them into bankruptcy.
I'm embarrassed for us as a free society that we actually want people punished for saying things we don't like.
Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
I have difficulty orienting myself in space, and I'm probably one of the few people who gets lost in Manhattan.
A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days.
I don't know if any of us are mature enough to handle the brutal honesty of what's inside other people's heads.
It is not people who break ethical standards who are regarded as aliens. It is people like me who are isolated.
I thought it was irrelevant to talk about what a wonderful thing poetry was if you didn't teach people to read.
Because in the end, and no matter how hard it is, acceptance helps people move on with the rest of their lives.
To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.
Babies, babies, babies. Why did God make so many babies? But no, God didn't make them. Stupid people made them.
The most common misconception people have had in the past is about my own control and calculation of my career.
I've certainly played those leading man or male juvenile roles, where you're not supposed to make people laugh.
The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.
There is some talk of lowering (the income tax), and they will have to. People are not making enough to pay it.