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Don't idolize anyone if you can. You know, be inspired by people, certainly, but don't idolize people... Because they'll let you down.
I don't have any interest in going out to clubs. I love people, and I love socializing, I just don't have any interest in being drunk.
It takes a lot of people to create a success. That's why I say that few leaders are successful unless a lot of people want them to be.
When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.
Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.
As an actor, there's very little you can do if people don't want to see you. Just getting yourself into the room to audition is tough.
And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them.
What most people call "chaos" is actually incredibly predictable and maddeningly boring - greed, close-mindedness, warring over power.
Being honest about where you come from and what your story is is the only way to connect to other people, to really connect with them.
I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.
People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up.
Shortly after news of Zarqawi's death reached the media, al-Qaeda stated its intention to continue its oppression of the Iraqi people.
I think sometimes that people are like onions. On the outside smooth and whole and simple but inside ring upon ring, complex and deep.
The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome.
What do you have to do to get people to take an interest? I'm not going to go out and cause a silly sex scandal just to sell a record!
You have to engage with people who are different from you and try to work with their thinking and their mind. That's a real challenge.
The people will always attempt to find the positive aspects of all circumstances, which, in themselves, are not susceptible to danger.
Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.
I represent Brazil all over the world. Wherever I go I have to do my best, to not disappoint the Brazilian people. And that I've done.
A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.
I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not.
Once a year ask the boss, "What do I or my people do that helps you to do your job?" and "What do I or my people do that hampers you?"
To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent.
I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.
I am the luckiest guy in the world. All my dreams came true. I was in a wonderful business, and I met great people all over the world.
People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
I think people have made their minds up about Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. They love them and hate them - love them or hate them.
All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.
Where people really base their principles has nothing to do with the color of someone's skin, it has to do with money and their class.
American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.
Now unless you have billions of dollars, it's impossible to reach tens of millions of American people no matter how hard you campaign.
I'm sure most people have this experience: when you're young you drink, you do drugs, you stay up late, and there are no consequences.
One of my mission statements with all of my art has been to stop the world for people. I want to stop the worrying and stop the world.
... people loved to suffer, as long as the suffering made sense. Everybody suffered. The key was to choose the form of your suffering.
If you do not decide to be happy, very few people can make you happy. If you decide to be happy, very few people can make you unhappy.
Today the earth is populated with billions of people desperately hoping to “get somewhere,” but having no idea of where they’re going.
Don't we have to respond to people who don't seem normal to us? Will my child grow up able to accept that not everyone looks the same?
I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.
Obamacare premiums are of no concern to people in the establishment. Same thing with illegal immigration, same thing with trade deals.
We're just musically and rhythmically retarded. We play so hard that we can't tune our guitars fast enough. People can relate to that.
It's in that convergence of spiritual people becoming active and active people becoming spiritual that the hope of humanity now rests.
There's always this kind of odd idea that people would say, "Oh, do you know the Queen?" But really people are much smarter than that.
I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.
I loved playing a dramatic role. There's a side of me a lot of people don't know, and when I do dramatic roles, it just all comes out.
I know how to tell a story to a thousand people. Sometimes I don't know how to tell a story to a piece of tape on a wall and a camera.
Lots of people make the stage and it can seem very violent and over the top, but it's not really. It's always a kind of gentle ballet.
There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding.
Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.