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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
Not every corporation is a great bunch of people. Like in any group of people, you're gonna have bad apples, bad actors here and there.
Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written in it?
You have to be real with yourself. No one is doing that. People are too concerned with making everything look nice and calm and pretty.
The carrot and the stick are prevasive and persuasive motivators. But if you treat people like donkeys, they will perform like donkeys.
Reading is another thing that has made me more human by exposing me to worlds I might never have entered and people I might never meet.
I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
Almost everything I do is related to my ability to hire good people. I don't take much of the credit myself. I think I have a good eye.
Death is the most misunderstood phenomenon. People have thought of death as the end of life. That is the first, basic misunderstanding.
Only cowards push a button from thousands of miles away, or tens of thousands of feet up, to kill people who can't possibly fight back.
I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.
There are many people out there who don't even think of themselves as being averse to facts, but the truth is, they are not getting it.
I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.
President Trump is going to keep the promises he made to the American people through decisive executive action and through legislation.
A culture exists within the [Ted] Cruz camp that would allow people to take advantage of a situation like this in a very dishonest way.
I'm the leadoff hitter, it's my job to lead this team. I know people say the way I go is how the Mets go, so I'll do whatever it takes.
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
I always had the desire to entertain people, whether it was to make 'em laugh or to scare 'em or stir things up just to cause problems.
...most people in the world don't really use their brains to think. And people who don't think are the ones who don't listen to others.
Amsterdam is not Holland. It is a city that attracts people from all over Holland. And lots of international tourists and party people.
People can get crazier as they get older. I can just be weird whenever I want, and there's the freedom of not caring what people think.
At USC, if you're running back there, and you do gain you over 1,500 yards, people see you as a candidate, but not one of the top ones.
People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.
It isn't effective or productive to force your employees to do anything. Choice empowers people and makes for a more content workforce.
I've known people who have not mastered their tools who are good programmers, but not a tool master who remained a mediocre programmer.
I push myself to be the best I can be. I don't worry about what other people are doing, and I don't think about things I can't control.
People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I'm finding that I get inspired a lot more these days before I'm happy.
On stage I'm basically spiritually feeding all of these people in the audience, and making sure they're encouraged to connect with God.
...you could be the best team or the best player in different generations and people respect each other. Nobody cares who was the best.
If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That's ridiculous. If I have a gun, what in the hell do I have to be paranoid about?
You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.
When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the word for it.
I have faith in all mankind. Well,not faith really, more like hopeful suspicion. And not "all" but 5 people. Mankind meaning computers.
I've always had a way with the little people, making it a point to humor them without looking down my nose at their wasted empty lives.
I knew most of my radio listeners were lefty political people, and I decided definitively not to be that guy - not to address politics.
I can't imagine anything worse than trying to impress a girl with dinner. To be honest, I'm always impressing myself, not other people.
Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper - it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do.
Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity.
I always remind people from outside our state that there’s plenty of room for all Alaska’s animals — right next to the mashed potatoes.
Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people.
No Kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave.
Hard to remember who is more dangerous: the people who are attacking our liberties overseas, or those who are suppressing them at home.
Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law.
I think in American culture, we put value on economic success but tell people you don't have to be economically successful to be happy.
[Gays and lesbians should be] Punished, in fact, killed. The people involved should be killed in the worst, most severe way of killing.
It is necessary that I should die for my people; but my spirit will rise from the grave and the whole world will know that I was right.
If there are older black people in the audience that I can see I will not say the n-word. I know they grew up with a different meaning.
I do like to dress up and look nice, and I'm inspired by people who do the same - people who express themselves through how they dress.
As far as all of our identities are dependent on how other people imagine us we are all making ourselves and each other up all the time
Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print.