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If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people.
Become one of those people who work hard, invest and build, and at the same time create employment and opportunities for others.
People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do right because the world doesn't make sense if you don't.
I have so much respect for people that can do it [tredmill running], I wish I could because it looks really cool and really fun.
You cannot underestimate the sharpness of people’s BS radar. They can spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away.
A strong nation is one that is loved by its people and, as Edmund Burke put it, for a country to be loved it ought to be lovely.
You have to solve a problem that people actually have. But it's not always a problem that they know they have, so that's tricky.
Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality.
I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance.
It's the coolest feeling signing your record. And it's great when people come to your shows and know the words to the new songs.
People don't normally change when things are going well. But I want to see what's next and keep moving. That keeps things fresh.
If people are going to judge me without fully understanding the content of my character, then their opinion just isn't worth it.
It's always nice when people appreciate your work because it means you've affected them, which is great. And so that feels good.
There are still people who believe in that and wake up every day believing it's possible, and invest their whole selves in that.
Here's what I would want for humanity, because this is what I have come to see is true: it's so simple when we listen to people.
Don't follow those who can talk a big game about their amazing faith in Christ. Follow people who are actually following Christ.
A lot of people are doing something about their weight, but by their own reckoning, it isn't enough to get the results they want
The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to... bare the secrets of government and inform the people.
I always look up to people like Michael Gambon and Tommy Lee Jones, and I hope that as I mature I will become as craggy as them.
I like roses best. But they bloom in all four seasons. I wonder if people who like roses best have to die four times over again.
Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.
In the old patrician world there was a custom once a week you had to eat a meal with your slaves and get to know them as people.
To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.
I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.
No one has actually gone further than The Sex Pistols, I don't think, in that cultural music arena. They still challenge people.
[The Persian Empire] left a dream of the Middle East as a unit, and a unit where people of different faiths could live together.
I want people to know their palate is a snowflake. We all like different things. Why should we all have the same taste in wines?
If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places.
If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
People who sit back and wait for somebody to take care of them are the people that if shown a way, can be useful to our society.
People keep asking me when I'm going to start singing instead of speaking. I can't sing! I'm rubbish! Why don't they believe me?
Being an artist, it's always tempting to measure success through other people's eyes, be they critics, journalists or audiences.
I try not to take things too personally, because most of the time, people aren't even thinking about anyone else but themselves.
The real "opium of the people", distracting men's minds from their essential task, is the communist myth of an earthly paradise.
It's hard to be taken seriously if you're a young, female artist making pop music; you never know how people are going to react.
I do not look at the world in terms of black and white - and I find people who do rather scary. I think it's all shades of grey.
One of the things that drives Trump's popularity is that he sticks it to these people in the media. And people love seeing that.
I do love writing prose interspersed with the poetry of other people. Their rhythms break into my prose and create a connection.
The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.
The fact that people are embracing me so well as a new artist and being taken so seriously is something I'm really surprised by.
When it's a sharing and improvisational meeting, where you're riffing off other people's ideas, that actually can be productive.
History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.
No Ponzi schemer tells anyone exactly how it works. The purpose of a Ponzi scheme is to trick people, to take the money and run.
Let's focus on the funny. ... That's what I'm focused on... This is the gift God gave me. That's what I want to touch in people.
The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.' That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.
The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.
What families have in common the world around is that they are the place where people learn who they are and how to be that way.
Hillary Clinton's campaign slogan is, "I'm with her." You know what my response is to that? "I'm with you, the American people."
People love the way they're capable of loving-but that's not always how you want them to love or how you think they should love.
You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they're ready to get it.