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We have this cultural obsession with work and productivity as if we're better people if we don't stop and take some time for ourselves.
I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform.
I do think that there is an almost more old fashioned mentality to the way musical theatre people and actresses especially are treated.
History, in a democratic age, tends to become a series of popular apologies, and is inclined to assume that the people can do no wrong.
Our creative dreams are subject to grudge-holding when we decide that other people somehow have made their dreams real and we have not.
The reason why people give up so fast is because they tend to look at how far they still have to go, instead of how far they have come.
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
When I feel very loved, when I nurture and support people, my experience is deepened. I feel connected to a larger purpose and meaning.
It's very, very hard to hire people, qualified people. And a lot of people didn't want the job because it's a three- or four-month job.
We all, in fact, carry so many people inside us; the only difference is that actors get paid for it, and we sort of spruce it up a bit.
We are who we are, and when you accept people instead of trying to change them to fit your needs, your relationships can fully blossom.
It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former.
Trying to get people to face reality and see the world the way it really is is an absolutely critical aspect of leadership, in my view.
The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
The revolution I was starting where I thought I could yell at 200 people in a bar every night and change the world didn't quite happen.
I'm one of those people that will walk into a bar, and if I wasn't a comic - because some people know who I am - I would just blend in.
The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.
The change doesn't come from Washington ever. Change comes from below. It comes from the pressure building amongst the American people.
The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best done by fiction.
I always practise penalties, but what people don't understand is that you can never recreate that pressure situation that you're under.
That's not true. I did not have sexual intercourse with Lindsay Lohan. ... A lot of people probably did, I don't know, [but I did not].
People who have "their own issues" often don't stand back and look at the big picture- they're too busy orchestrating their own issues.
People in my neighborhood inspired me to sing. Believe in your ability no matter what, but be realistic with yourself and your ability.
One of the ways that people avoid taking responsibility for their role in their own pain is what I call the BPs - blame and projection.
Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible.
A new study found that most people can't go 10 minutes without lying. But since the study took 20 minutes nobody knows what to believe.
I could always make people around me laugh. It was more of a defense mechanism more than anything else, because I was a pretty shy guy.
I cannot count the good people I know who to my mind would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers.
Good brands reflect the histories of the time and the group of people that made them. They can not be copied. They can not be recycled.
I find it funny because people complain about Brooklyn becoming too hip, but would they prefer stock brokers or gunfights or something?
I think people know Steve Jobs the showman. I think people know the guy who stood up and gave the keynotes. The magician. The salesman.
Remember that other people are as real as you.Other people's feelings are as real as yours.In fact, our feelings are what make us real.
When I left the Lampoon, I went west to try that out, and discovered that I hated it.They were awful people turning out awful product .
Even though he was afraid to admit it, when he was with her it seemed it was worth doing all those normal things that normal people do.
I understand people have to go to work and earn money and bring up kids, but I always thought, "Why can't I just do what I want to do?"
Don't be different. Different scares people. People won't spend their money on different. They will, however, pay a premium for unique.
I always tell people that I'll sound exactly like Alanis Morissette after I've had more boyfriends. I'll be just as anguished-sounding.
If the sage wants to stand above people, he must speak to them from below. If he wants to lead people, he must follow them from behind.
Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. All good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. Start your own theater.
On the other hand, it is also undeniable that the Palestinian people - Muslims and Christians - have suffered in pursuit of a homeland.
We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.
I... keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be and what I could be if... if only there were no other people in the world.
Without a vision people and the church become self-centered. People start finding fault with one another and the church self-destructs.
Taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good visual taste and good taste in people and taste in ideas.
Network marketing has come of age. It's undeniable that it has become a way to entrepreneurship and independence for millions of people
Make yourself your role model, because people who do not have qualities depend on the qualities of others to shape their own qualities.
An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.
[Wham!] totally changed my life. It would be very difficult to know how it changed me as a person; you'd have to ask other people that.
You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.