Their diet is basically boiled vegetables, fish and rice. No fat, no sugar. You notice when you live there that there are no fat people.

You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.

I don't like to say, "Oh, I don't like this kind of music." I like to listen to it and try to see what people who like it get out of it.

I have no idea why people want to watch puppets be the slightly meaner version of the weirdo holding them. It's beyond my comprehension.

It's always a shock to the people who run studios when a movie that is for women is a hit. They have an infinite capacity to be shocked.

I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.

I wanted to say what wasn't being said. I wanted to give people a real story. I wanted people to know people like me exist in the world.

I was raised with pretty thick skin. And I think people are hungry for politicians who aren't afraid to say what they think and mean it.

[As a child] I was very interested in books that detailed injustice and how people who are underdogs were mistreated throughout history.

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone.

Particularly as a Jew, I don't like missionary work. I've had it focused on me, and I don't like it. Let people be what they want to be.

What people have got to remember is that Sept. 11 happened in 2001 and not in 2003. It was planned under the presidency of Bill Clinton.

We all know that the people we love are mortal, we all know we’re mortal, we know it’s going to end; you cannot prepare yourself for it.

People expect black women to be angry, irrationally so, without reason. They think we are animals and we go around like the Wild Things.

I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.

Most of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers, because they were not able to become the unique people they were born to be.

I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.

To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a dog of having a bark!

I'd like people to remember that I really tried everything within my range of reality. And that whatever I did, I did with all my heart.

I really think that people must understand that what you really think and feel and believe is what you're going to create in your world.

A lot of people didn't realize that with the carpet being pulled out from under me in such a short time frame I got to such a bad place.

If people were possessed by reason, running marathons would never work. But we are not creatures of reason. We are creatures of passion.

A nation that encourages its people to spend more and save less promotes economic backwardness, social decay and its own financial doom.

Most people seem to take pleasure in feeling superior to someone. I'm not like that, which pleases me because it makes me feel superior.

As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?

I think there's always something about design that is going to be very difficult for more than a small fraction of people to really get.

The only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party attended only by two vastly, deeply uninteresting people.

I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.

Curiously enough, it is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.

I realized that I was really tired of people popping on and off of my property like it was a train station on the supernatural railroad.

Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.

The old question still remains: Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?

All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.

[Donald Trump] is trying to be elected president of the United States and he's doing that with or without certain people's endorsements.

If people don't actively knock the scenery over and they get the words out in something approximating the right order, you're moving on.

There's a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me. People want a relationship with you that they haven't earned.

I'm disappearing from twitter for a while. Need a break from the bile. Local prejudice just seems to bring out the worst in some people.

The truth of the matter is that when you write about religion like I do, you're writing about something that people take very seriously.

When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people who makes ballon animals, I think of their relatives and how disappointed they must be.

I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up 'incredibly beautiful' in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.

My last sort of crisis was about overcoming the people who were more interested in what I had done than what I was doing in the present.

The Holocaust would never have happened if black people lived in Germany in the 1930s and 40s … well, it wouldn't have happened to Jews.

Cage the People, Free the Money. The only thing that is allowed to move freely - unimpeded - around the world today is money... capital.

society ... is tolerant of crimes, and long suffering with dullness, but it shows no mercy to those who are different from other people.

You're blinded by lights and you see all these people who come out, and it's exciting. It's scary and it's exciting all rolled into one.

The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.

I know that the fantastic amount of profit that people want to make on anything is damaging. And that none of us seem able to resist it.

I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will.

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