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Everything I do on stage, I made up in saloons. I started doing it in front of people, and that became my performance. I never had writers.
Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
Those people who kill women, children, and defenseless civilians are about as Muslim as mass murderer Christopher Columbus was a Christian.
To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.
It is really not the wilderness that needs management (it has been doing quite well, after all, for a couple of billion years), but people.
I have a skeptical and cranky side, and I'm forever puzzled why people believe the, seeming to me, dumb things that they choose to believe.
A society is not 'free' merely because the freedoms the people are doing away with are those they voted at the last election to do without.
People do misinterpret events, especially the meaning of other people’s actions and the motives that lead people to act one way or another.
To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you're there. And you can have that anywhere.
As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.
I was always in the gym. People would look at me crazy because I spent so much time there. But that's what it was about. I'm glad I did it.
What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again.
If you get on the radio, people hear it, they buy the record. If you get on Spotify playlist nowadays, people hear it, they buy the record.
I am interested in power, too, but power for you, the people, not power for bureaucrats and politicians and officeholders and all the like.
Microcredit has shown how you can reach out to people that conventional banking cannot. It has demonstrated that it's a doable proposition.
Environmentalists and clean energy champions should stop telling people that we are working for "sustainability," which nobody understands.
I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don't want to fit in. And now people are buying into that.
People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do.
I'm a Bhakti, meaning I practice devotional yoga and the heart and love, so I say to people, start with your ego and go down to your heart.
The thing about making a documentary in Las Vegas is there isn't much to film apart from other people making documentaries about Las Vegas.
People only get in the afterlife what they have most wanted-either to have God as Savior and Master or to be their own Saviors and Masters.
Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves from it.
Rather than look at a marriage as two people morphing into one thing, you could see two individuals who are choosing to form a partnership.
People think: 'If this photographer's looking like a big jerk-off, maybe it's okay if I do.' I like to catch my subjects off balance a bit.
There are five billion people living on this planet. But you fall in love with one particular person, and you won't swap her for any other.
Today, hundreds of thousands of AIDS patients are under medical treatment, which is a great advancement. But it makes some people reckless.
Any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today.
I beg you, put an end to the occupation. I beg the Italian government and the Italian people to put pressure on the government to pull out.
People sometimes don't like organized situations. Sometimes people need to be left alone more. Sometimes people need environmental support.
Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself.
I'm so lucky to have worked with Burt Lancaster, who I remember was one of the first people I'd heard swearing in a really interesting way.
Christianity isn't meant to simply be believed; it's meant to be lived, shared, eaten, spoken, and enacted in the presence of other people.
When you do business with people you need money. When you do business with God you need faith. Faith is the currency of the Kingdom of God.
I just hope people see that if God can do something beautiful with my broken pieces, then God truly has a plan for each and everyone of us.
If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate.
I've been friends with madonna for ever. In fact she was at my 3rd solo performance in 1990, and there were only 10 people in the audience.
Health care is much the same - the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people - and we must not shrink from the challenge.
The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
Muslims are peace-loving people generally. Among the young, yes, there are some militant attitudes. But a lot of it arises out of chivalry.
I have been fortunate to have a career that has allowed me to travel the world and come in contact with many different cultures and people.
I remember very clearly when I found my first soulmate, it was actually in my late 20s, that wonderful feeling of being accepted by people.
I write and perform for the feeling it gives me, and the experience of being connected with a room full of people to the vibration of music
When my dad toured in '91, I think my first gig properly was the Tokyo Dome, 50,000 people indoors. That was pretty scary. I was 12, or 13.
Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, and are the sweeter for a touch of frost.
When there is in nature no fixed condition, how much less must there be in the life of a people, beings endowed with mobility and movement!
Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally.
My mom taught me a lot. A lot about minding your own business and leaving other people's business alone. And let them think what they want.
My real pleasure is that 4 times a week 1,800 people are standing up and shouting on Broadway for an author who died hundreds of years ago.
The combined efforts of millions of concerned citizens could do wonders to help the impoverished. The American people are ready for action!
People will never set their faces decidedly towards heaven, and live like pilgrims, until they really feel that they are in danger of hell.