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Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them.
People always say a script will be 'brought to life in a magical way,' but for me that has been proven wrong time and time again.
I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.
I'm moderately optimistic. We Americans are an enormous country with more than 300 million people so there's reason for optimism.
It’s not manly to hurt others or belittle them. Respect and kindness require more courage because people take advantage of those.
All ethical people strive to choose "right" over "easy" when confronted by situations that force them to choose one or the other.
When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
I always say to people if you want to see what Britain looks like, watch Gogglebox. It's brilliant and funny and warm and clever.
It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part.
In the future, search engines should be as useful as HAL in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey-but hopefully they won't kill people.
When we get jealous, we tell stories to ourselves about other people. Jealousy makes you look for intensity rather than accuracy.
There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.
Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.
Particularly on social media, there is that level of detachment, some people feel like they can say whatever pops in their head .
If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.
People who try to create a musical revolution do not have a chance, but those who turn their back to music can sometimes find it.
I want to tell people that I had post-natal depression because there is so much stigma around the subject and there shouldn't be.
I don't think there's a problem. First of all, I don't think music turns people into social liabilities. Because you hear a lyric
People getting rich in a free society in general - with some scammy exceptions, which are rare - makes everyone else richer, too.
The etiquette question that troubles so many fastidious people New Year's Day is: How am I ever going to face those people again?
When some one reminded him that the people of Sinope had sentenced him to exile, he said, "And I sentenced them to stay at home."
I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.
Most people have two emergency modes. Fight and Flight. But Conner always knew he had three. Fight, Flight, and Screw Up Royally.
Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.
We're going to hear an earful, but it's going to be an earful of wonderment and happiness that people waited for for a long time.
People keep pushing me to be the center of attention... I would prefer to be on the sidelines, because that's where you see more.
What kind of wonderful God is this who reaches down into the lives of people, picks them up, grants them faith, and changes them!
What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom!
Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.
... the first step in understanding a people is to know the extent of their mortality, the things from which they suffer and die.
I think wanting to write is a fundamental sign of disease and discomfort. I don't think people who are comfortable want to write.
There is nothing more frightening than the faces of people whom one does not know but who seem to know one, and be amused by one.
I steal things from people, characteristics, and I just stock them in my head like a library to use for characters in the future.
Most people aren't happy about being consistent and staying at the same place for years. People want forward progress and motion.
People marry through a variety of other reasons, and with varying results: but to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.
There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as "we"; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm.
We are not at war with the Afghani people, and we are not at war with Islam, which most Americans respect as a religion of peace.
When I perform I'm very extroverted and I wear my heart on my sleeve and some people don't like that. They're embarrassed for me.
The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.
People often think of Haiti as a place where you're not supposed to have any joy. I wanted to show that this is a place with joy.
Three-fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them, and they will love you.
I've never trained as an actor. I've always thought I'm not a good actor. I've been told I'm not a good actor by a lot of people.
Some people prefer the passenger role, because it imposes no real pressure to decide or stand accountable for their life results.
I love to talk about people I've met being an entertainer. All my encounters in life - I roll it all into an hour and 30 minutes.
When we love people but don't make it about us, we're exchanging currency we can use for a while for currency we can use forever.
All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story.
Some people fast, some people go on a cruise or visit a day spa. I get out in the woods with a rifle or a bow. That's my release.
"Do you know that nothing you do in this life will ever matter, unless it is about loving God and loving the people he has made?
I'm fascinated by the possibilities of human behavior, of how two people raised the same way can end up at such different places.