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Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people.
When I got back from the war in 1946 people didn't want the Mr. Smith kind of movie any more, and I refused to make war pictures.
As I watched my grandfather work with people who were impoverished, I began to understand that to be truly human, one must serve.
I am so anti-people's opinions when I'm making a record, but when it's finished and I put it out there, I hope somebody likes it.
I feel like I know a lot of music stuff that most people my age don't know, because people that were slightly older were into it.
The people who were really important are the ones whose names are forgotten. And that's true of every movement that ever existed.
Later in life, suddenly, if you're an outsider, it's something to be celebrated, I think, rather than getting on people's nerves.
Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.
Happiness today, I think, is for most people the satisfaction of the eternal suckling: to drink in more this, that, or the other.
Start finding future clients before you have anything to sell them. Get to know these people as friends, not potential customers.
People need to have the incentive that if they invest and succeed, they can make a fair profit. Otherwise they'll stop investing.
Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith.
A curious reversal in the locus of moral concern has taken place: people feel responsible for everything except for what they do.
What's great about art is that if you can reach people, if they hear or see what you do and it moves them, there's a commonality.
You were born with the power to change others. You change people by the way you treat them. That is what changes the human heart.
My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.
It's easier to list Hollywood and TV people who don't have a radio show now, take less time to do that than to list those who do.
There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.
Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.
I sit around too much, waiting for other people to do stuff and angsting about stuff they've done, without doing anything myself.
Staying together is a challenge. We all have to accept qualities in other people that aren't always exactly what we want or need.
Religious experiences are real and common, whether or not God exists, and these experiences often make people whole and at peace.
Life is like Facebook. People will like and coments your problems, but no one will solve them because they're busy updating them.
Throughout history there have been black people who have played mammies, all sorts of offensive images, who didn't mind doing it.
Let us not mince words about what this would be: a deportation force designed to break up families and deport millions of people.
The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.
There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.
There are none so blind as those who will not see. The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know.
Men often prove the violence of their own prejudices, even by the violence with which they attack the prejudices of other people.
Our goal is to defend the American people, and to eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, and to liberate the Iraqi people.
Some people know Rosa Parks, they know Daisy Bates in Arkansas, but every... Ruby Doris Smith, Diane Nash, countless individuals.
History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.
This, I think, is how people survive: Even when horrible things have been done to us, we can still find gratitude in one another.
I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern experience.
The hardest part has been maintaining a small head and remaining down to earth. So many people try to make you more than you are.
Humor is a great defense, and an offense too. Usually the recipient isn't too happy about it, but the people around are laughing.
I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.
The American people want their government to act, and not merely to talk, whenever and wherever there is a threat to world peace.
Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.
It may sound corny, but what's wrong with wanting to fight for your country. Why are people reluctant to use the word patriotism?
There are a lot of things that can be done within the framework of existing institutions which would be very valuable for people.
One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn't as individuals.
A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people's heads. Books are good that way.
It is increasingly hard for young white people to find jobs, and I can understand why white parents are worried about the future.
Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you're supporting everything they do.
The judgment of God against this nation will not be turned by a more conservative President, but by the repentance of its people.
In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want.
When it comes to kids, it's just not hard to get them healthy. I don't find it hard and don't understand why people find it hard.
You know who sang at Rush Limbaugh's wedding? Elton John! According to Rush, gay people can sing at weddings. Just not their own.
I don't actually like people. I'm a loner and if I had my way I'd just walk my dogs every day, never talk to anyone and then die.