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The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.
Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear
It's fine to pretend that people are one-dimensional, like in body size; the problem comes when you forget that you are just pretending.
One effect of an individualistic culture that's poor at instilling mutual respect is that people jump more quickly to anger or violence.
It seems to me that it's better to allow people to have more spendable income.That helps 'LO stimulate the economy and create more jobs.
I think I can only help to expose percussion to all sorts of people. The balance between the lighter and more serious side is important.
Friend, there's no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.
A friend from India told me that a countryman of his said: "I want to go to America. I want to see a country where poor people are fat."
The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest to make them happy.
The road to revolution involves openness to the people, not imperviousness to them; it involves communion with the people, not mistrust.
Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society.
One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are. You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be.
Everyone knows almost everything about me. I make it very clear that I'm cool with people knowing all my personal life through my songs.
People who do not worship are swept into a vast restlessness, epidemic in the world, with no steady direction and no sustaining purpose.
There are people who can achieve huge success in life, while adding a bit of fun and a splash of colour to this increasingly grey world.
Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.
The Adobe flash plug-in is non-free software, and people should not install it, or suggest installing it, or even tell people it exists.
Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.
A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important.
Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.
The word 'snooze fest' comes to mind when talking about Hopkins' fighting style, that's what a lot of people say. He's a boring fighter.
There is no technical reason why we could not feed a world of nine billion people. Hunger is a matter of buying power, not of shortages.
We thought of ourselves as musical terrorists at shows - were weren't biting heads off bats, but we wanted to annoy and confront people.
The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.
I write about everything, but I just - how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of other people and life and all that.
Ninety percent of people support background checks. Which means even people who can't pass a background check support background checks.
One day we're going to watch people fight to the death, like Roman times. Instead of being in a coliseum, we're going to watch it on TV.
Even if it's a sequel, lots of people have to give their all to make a game, but some people think the sequel process happens naturally.
I don't like to condemn people because what that means is that you're only condemning yourself about a part of you that you can't stand.
We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human.
People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.
Construction is an important front for solidifying the foundations of a thriving country and creating bases for the people's happy life.
Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.
Freedom is an eternal principle. Heaven disapproves of force, coercion and intimidation. Only a free people can be truly a happy people.
Over the last 10 years, there have been so many incredible albums created in bedrooms by people who never would've gotten an album deal.
You know, the people who do indie film and decide who gets those little budgets? They're mean, man. They're cold and very cool-oriented.
What kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work - and masses of unemployed?
I don't want people to be inspired or offended by what I do. If you determine your behavior by what [other people] want, you're screwed.
Who are these people?" my mother asked. "Guess," replied Abe flatly. "Who would be foolish enough to break into court after escaping it?
There are only two qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency; and only two sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient.
Just because people tell you it can't be done, that doesn't necessarily mean that it can't be done. It just means that they can't do it.
Some people are stuck in tedious things, like their jobs, and they are bored. Other people experience one stressful thing after another.
The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors. It is through this that they suffer famine.
You sit or stand in the subway, and you look around - I do, because I don't have a phone so I'm not playing a game - and you see people.
I was an incredibly misanthrope. I couldn't relate to people my age, and I'm not sure why, as I wasn't particularly smart or interesting
I have always wanted to write in such a way that will make people think, Why, I've always thought that but never found the words for it.
The good man does not grieve that other people do not recognize his merits. His only anxiety is lest he should fail to recognize theirs.
Perhaps the most dehumanizing thing in Gaza is people there don't have the time to properly mourn the dead before strikes kill even more
Marriage to me means unity, it means strength because I believe that both people can be stronger in their calling because of each other.
I really didn't want to be a part of the world because I found that the world was filled with unkindness. People didn't love each other.