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People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever dare avow her.
If people like to see me with my shirt off, it's enormously flattering. But that doesn't mean I'm going to take my shirt off all the time.
I'm a militant fundamentalist atheist. I'm going to get on a crowded train, unbutton my coat and say rational things. People will be hurt.
Nonviolence which to me is the glory of Hinduism, has been sought to be explained away by our people as being meant for the sanyasis only.
Well, I've cleaned bathrooms in a warehouse. That was pretty terrible. But I can't complain because I'm sure other people have done worse.
Even though people like to say Destroyer [albom] is gibberish and all that, I usually know exactly what I'm saying at every single moment.
If I have stepped on some people at times because I am at the top, it couldn't be helped. What should I do if someone gets hurt... retire?
Sometimes, the simple messages are the best thing music can do, really. Sometimes, songs can stir people up, motivate them to make change.
Why do they call it losing your virginity, anyway? It's Not Like I don't know where I left it." "You'd be surprised how many people don't.
My show is not just a cop hosting a talk show - the two are completely different. My show is about helping people stand up to the bad guy.
I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant crisis.
In the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don’t care about them or don’t like them.
I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.
Now, I do come from a part of the country where the people say that the only thing in the middle of the road is a yellow line or roadkill.
Anytime there's an actual grassroots movement that isn't funded by people trying to create a grassroots movement, I find that interesting.
I'm not sure that people want to go back to the womb. People want to go back to the teats of your mother and hear your mother's heartbeat.
Everybody says not enough people vote. Now, I don't know nothing, but after the midterms, pretty obvious to me, that too many people vote.
I went to Istanbul. I spoke to blind people, most of whom had lost their sight suddenly. I asked them to describe the last thing they saw.
Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks.
What kind of influence do you want to have? What kind of effect do you want to have on other people? Never mistake the power of influence.
For you maybe I'm a fool but it's fun. People say you rule me with one wave of your hand. Darling, it's grand, they just don't understand.
I just want to touch people's ears. I want to touch people's lives. I want to give them something they can release to towards their anger.
[George Bush] has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better.
It doesnt hurt to repeat here the statement, still rejected by many people in spite of its obviousness, that education is a political act.
I hear so many of the young people today sing and I think they have a good voice, yet I wonder if they'll ever know that they sound alike.
I think people are tired of being slammed with foul language and sexual content that really has nothing to do with (telling a good story).
There was a good moment in Islam when people were actually challenging authority at every level. Very different from the world we live in.
I can do the equivalent of 150 miles per hour and not get stopped. I could quite happily pursue people down the motorway in my helicopter.
I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
We don't move on in the stunt unless it looks like a hit. So when I see it on TV, I'm generally satisfied that people are going to buy it.
A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.
Be grateful even for hardship, setbacks, and bad people. Dealing with such obstacles is an essential part of training in the Art of Peace.
Aim at perfection and nothing less. Need the best. Deserve the best. Those who say it's not possible are the people who decided to settle.
I didn't realize how much people liked to bash SNL until I was on. I've always just liked it, and I've always watched it and been into it.
With respect to the Internet and emails, this does not apply to U.S. citizens and it does not apply to people living in the United States.
People were very protective of me. Overly so. I was in the industry for a long time before I had any idea of what drugs people were doing.
Bands will always need studios. The more people there are recording at home, the more people there will be who are going to need a studio.
When there are starving people in the world, it seems wrong that so many of us Americans eat as much for entertainment as for nourishment.
Jury - A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their health, hearing, and business engagements, have failed to fool him.
I cannot resist making the observation that some people use statistics as a drunk uses a lamppost - more to lean on than for illumination.
Every day I wake up determined to deliver a better life for the people all across America that have been ignored, neglected and abandoned.
Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people.
Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven't been as well taught.
I grew up in the South with guns everywhere and we never shot anyone. This [shooting] is about people who aren't taught the value of life.
All the inane, meaningless noises people make that pass for intelligent conversation. They might as well be pigs grunting in the pen. (92)
We can't control everything in life, that's for sure, but we can reach out to the people we love to tell them we love and care about them.
People are not considerate of others. They tend not to consider themselves as all living together, but see themselves only as individuals.
There's beauty in people who reinvent themselves. Actors live a thousand lives, as do hackers ... the personality can play around forever.
The question is not how to get good people to rule; THE QUESTION IS: HOW TO STOP THE POWERFUL from doing as much damage as they can to us.