When people see you're happy doing what you're doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it.

Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.

Simply being with other people who are also seekers and who are involved in the same quest you are is very meaningful.

CNTRL is about letting people know that not everyone fits under the 'EDM' umbrella; not creatively or even personally.

It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.

Blind is not the situation when people cannot see others but when people fail to feel or sense the existence of others

True healing, of deep connective tissue, takes place in community. Where is God when it hurts? Where God's people are.

I have no desire to go anywhere near drugs. People say, "Aren't you tempted?" No, because of the ridiculousness of it.

I think Hillary Clinton deserves to have people vouch for her other than members of the Democratic National Committee.

How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.

I guess the optimistic thing is that those people in Congress who are climate deniers, I think their time has run out.

People would be surprised at how much of an electronic dude I am, and I like new wave, post-punk and proto-punk stuff.

What is success anyway? Is success about making the most money? No. Money, for the most part, turns people into jerks.

Most people I work with are older than me and the main thing I've learnt is that everyone is a dumb as an 18-year-old.

Today, people are more into the glitz and the glamour of everything. We don't even read the inside of records anymore.

Once your writing is out there, you can't control how other people perceive it. All you can do is stand in your truth.

It is my belief that people who speak of high school with a sugary fondness are bluffing away early-onset Alzheimer's.

The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.

I know of no power, indeed, of which a free people ought to be more jealous, than of that of levying taxes and duties.

I'm done living for other people. I'm done being a people pleaser. I'm done thinking about what people think about me.

What I enjoy most about performing is making people happy. Just to make a person smile means more to me than anything.

The wonderful thing about films is how they can be understood by so many different people on so many different levels.

I'm not really a strange person or anything, so if there's music I like, usually there's other people who like it too.

I cannot understand how people can still call themselves Christians and not be furious adversaries of Hitler's regime.

A state that privatizes most of its functions will inevitably defend itself by employing its own people as mercenaries

When we're born. . . All of us. . . Are free. People who reject that, no matter how strong they are. . . Don't matter.

I pray that when people hear my music, they say at the very least 'man I'm glad that someone else feels that way too.'

Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.

We have people who were actually CSIs on set [CSI: Miami], so definitely I have learned a lot just having them around.

How many people in the United States do you think will be willing to go to war to free Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania?

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

When people are alive they love, when they die, they keep loving. If love ends when person dies, that is not real love

Many, many people hereabouts are not becoming Christians for one reason only: there is nobody to make them Christians.

Teens today rule the world. The whole culture - movies, music - is pointed at young people. They have so 'much' power.

If a plane crashes and 99 people die while 1 survives, it is called a miracle. Should the families of the 99 think so?

I can cook to please people, but it's quite conventional. I make a good sponge cake. I find it hard to follow recipes.

It doesn't do you any service to demonize any group of people. It's much better to try and understand from the inside.

When a person has a gun, sometimes their mind clicks that this thing ... will win arguments and straighten people out.

People always say 'They [teens] need a good talking to.' I've never agreed with that. A kid needs a good listening to.

I've got this horrible feeling that I'm one of those people who'll always have to flog their guts out to get anywhere.

Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.

I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.

If you go to shows today, you have 16 celebrities sitting there, all these people who have nothing to do with fashion.

Comedy is a medicine - a healing process that can help people get through difficult times and understand things better

I'm not interested in how people dress. Of course, I recognize if somebody's elegant. But fashion doesn't interest me.

People who claw their way to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that enabled them to rise.

I am primarily a writer of books, and I enjoy that. But I come to realize that a lot of people prefer a visual medium.

People always have an opinion. Doesn't mean it's right, doesn't mean it's wrong, but we have to respect their opinion.

I am so glad people have started making films n martial arts and self-defense, which is actually the need of the hour.

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