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For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.
Nationalism is a central ideology for people who are trying to establish their own states in which they can play a dominant role.
Yes. Do you know people who are really nice, but when they get together with somebody in particular, they become obnoxious jerks?
I like his consistency, because Bernie Sanders talk - it boils down to the American people. His one thing is the American people.
My photography has really always been about what I feel I'm getting out of it. What people on the outside get doesn't concern me.
Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.
People live by example. I can't tell you, "You can be anything," if I shot my own dreams down or was too afraid to go after them.
All the most successful people nowadays who are truly successful and innovative in their field are not people motivated by money.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
People like it when they understand something that they previously thought they couldn't understand. It's a sense of empowerment.
It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
People struggle most with seeing new ways of doing things and often need help in breaking through their tradition-bound mindsets.
I want to serve desserts and pastries that people recognize and love to eat, but sometimes, with an unexpected twist of surprise.
They say that the average lifespan of an SVU detective is 4 years. People can't do it longer than that because it's so difficult.
I have met a great many people on their way towards God and I wonder why they have chosen to look for him rather than themselves.
Some people even think I wear a wig. Do they think I went into a salon one day and said, Can you please screw this up really bad?
It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it's also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.
It's a character that I always found really likable. I'm fond of Zorro because he was a popular figure who worked for the people.
It always cracks me up when people try to impress God, because people don't have to impress God. He's already knocked out by you.
Those who have most at stake in the old culture, or are most rigid in their beliefs, try to summon people back to the old ideas.'
I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You can't. It's against the law of nature.
I use social media not to ask new people to like my stuff. I use social media to connect with that one reader who likes my stuff.
People keep asking me, 'What evil lurks in you to play such bad characters?' There is no evil in me, I just wear tight underwear.
I have lifelong friends. My oldest friend, Herbie, has been a friend since I was 9. I've had bonds for over 50 years with people.
Some people as a result of adversity are sadder, wiser, kinder, more human. Most of us are better, though, when things go better.
We want everyone to prepare themselves for the reality that we are not going to be able to recover significant numbers of people.
Some people just derive great joy from making other people laugh. And I do, but I don't feel like I need to do it 24 hours a day.
I do believe that it is quite necessary for us as a people to reach back, over and down to help the less fortunate of our number.
The Rotary Club will do the work, because business people are busy. But the impact and the value of this will be to the business.
To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.
I just liked stand-up comedy so much. I used to memorize Bill Cosby albums and other people's albums, George Carlin, Flip Wilson.
My company survives because I've learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.
I'm pretty happy. I obviously have complaints about things, but for the most part, I'm on the above-average side of happy people.
Congress in the immigration law gives the president the power to restrict or suspend the entry of people he may deem appropriate.
Do not trust anybody but yourself. If people want to help you, fine. Put it on paper and understand exactly what every word says.
I think people when they think of comedic actors they forget that they are people with a point of view and experiences and depth.
My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfies us both. They are to do what they please, and I am to do what I please.
People who are kind of at the cutting edge of life and survival, and being near the nitty-gritty, like my films, and I like that.
The underlying problem remains the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and the continuing Israeli assaults against our people.
The way Bernard Shaw believes in himself is very refreshing in these atheistic days when so many people believe in no God at all.
I am a storyteller from a personal viewpoint. When I run out of people I invent ghosts. I don't believe in ghosts. Never saw one.
These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.
The problem with people who say monsters don't really exist is that they're almost never saying it to the monsters." —Alice Healy
What goes on when people overfetishize safety is that they're relapsing into that old frame of mind that what we're doing is bad.
There are 5,000 great people for every jerk on Usenet. But that still is a lot of jerks. Proceed with caution and eyes wide open.
People know that pursuing a mission without achieving results is dispiriting; achieving results without a mission is meaningless.
I think, you know, a lot of the business of comedy is taking your personal experiences and making them relatable to other people.
It could be a stupid thing to say, but people should realize that it is easy to get concerned about yourself and to lose contact.