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My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.
I love the idea that more people would read short fiction. I think it's such a humanizing form. It softens the boundaries between people.
The idea of taking what people call the 'entertainment culture' as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad idea.
You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.
Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
You hope you impact people on the deepest level you are capable of at the time. Sometimes you hit it, sometimes you don't. You're trying.
We're very concerned with language and how language works. We're trying to engage people rather than dictate how they should be thinking.
Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question.
I helped you because you're new, and because when there's two people in a cell then there's only a fifty percent chance they'll take you.
I think people are happier when they have structure, you know? You realize that as you get older. You have to have rituals and structure.
What is the biggest thing that stops people from living their lives in the present moment? Fear - and we must learn how to overcome fear.
I get cold really quickly, but I don't care. I like weather. I never understand why people move someplace so that they can avoid weather.
We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable.
For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.
Forasmuch as many people study more to have knowledge than to live well therefore ofttimes they err and bring forth little fruit or none.
People are starving in the world, not because we don't have enough food, but because we're not organized. And computers are part of that.
The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another.
I see people - they won't be negative toward other people, but inside they're negative toward themselves, and I think that holds us back.
Did Anthony Hopkins really have to be a serial killer to be in 'Silence of the Lambs?,' I don't think so, no. It's called acting, people.
Everyone wants to be financially secure, the problem is most people focus on "getting by" when they need to be focused on "getting rich."
I'm fed up with the idiots... the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies.
At university I had a big coloured scarf and people would often say, 'All right, Doctor Who?' And, I thought, I rather liked that notion.
I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published.
There can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not discuss a cause until their attention is drawn to it.
You people sometimes are like those serial killers you see in films who cut out the words 'I am going to get you' or 'your wife is next'.
Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted to hear.
The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people.
The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
Few people seem to realize that the resurrection of Jesus is the cornerstone to a worldview that provides the perspective to all of life.
Appearing on the front page of the New York Times even given the state of papers today is still something that's seen by a lot of people.
I know NBC pays my salary but I have never doubted who I work for. I think about the people who watch. They're the ones who matter to me.
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. You know what makes you stronger? When people treat you & your art with dignity.
It's important to be a global citizen at the same time and appreciate different cultures and different people and different ways of life.
There is one thing we can do, and the happiest of people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present.
I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds. That's really about it - I don't gravitate towards it, I try to move away from it.
The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.
The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.
Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.
The people are the foundation of the nation. Our only chance for a lasting peace on earth: the release of the strength of the common man.
So many people mentioned this at these rallies. You go to these things and it's kind of like an oldies concert. I mean, it's not hostile.
Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more
People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing - but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.
If you cast really funny, talented people and let them do what they need to do, they're going to hit a home run for you without a script.
People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.
People can't really place me. They're not really sure who I am. Sometimes they think I'm Helen Hunt. Sometimes they think I'm Laura Dern.
If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well.
But remember, this power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. When people stop obeying, they have no power.
Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.