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You know, when you need drugs and you don't have a lot of money, what you'll do is you'll hang out with people who will give you drugs. Right?
I hate wasting time or money and that happens all the time for no good reason, and then people save money by skimping on the important things.
I don't want to pay good money to hear ordinary people's lunatic views. Most of the people who phone in are [lunatics] - certainly in Britain.
You want attention, you want support, you want to be treated properly, and I don't wanna have to go anywhere and teach people how to treat me.
Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.
Part of my job is to try and seduce people. It's what I get paid for, and if people get in the way of me doing my job I can be very difficult.
Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.
Whenever Hollywood makes films about us, it's 12 Years a Slave or The Butler or The Help. That is not the sum total of who we are as a people.
Live life on your own path. Everybody's got something different. You can't keep up with all those people, so you better keep up with yourself.
A lot of people don't have near the amount of success as I've been blessed to have, and it's all about working hard and hoping that continues.
I'm drawn again and again to relationships between people who really, really want to connect and just can't get out of their own way to do it.
Don't give in to all the cliques and popularity. It means nothing. I know super popular guys, and guess what? They're just normal people, too.
I hate stand-up comics; I think funny is something you are, not something you desperately try to be in front of a roomful of obnoxious people.
Pop is an easy way for evil business people to make a lot of money. But I find myself humming a Christina Aguilera song every once in a while.
I am not pushy. You want it, you buy it. Most people hit the customer over the head. But if you're too self-important, it's kind of repellent.
There's a lot of idiots in Hollywood, a lot of people with no imagination, so as an actor you have to constantly re-show them what you can do.
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
Wands are only as powerful as the wizards who use them. Some wizards just like to boast that theirs are bigger and better than other people's.
I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.
I meet people every single day who have heard the music and incorporated it into their lives. I feel like I have a tribe all around the world.
I have this weird obsession with kids and old people falling. Like, funny falls. It is awful, but it's the thing that makes me laugh the most.
The state itself becomes more and more identified with the interests of those who run things than with the interests of the people in general.
I really don't care what people say. It's amazing that feminism continues to exist at all, considering how much counter-feminism is out there.
Juggling is very, very straightforward; very, very black and white; you're manipulating objects, not people. And that's always appealed to me.
The best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and synthesizing of knowledge for oneself.
The population of earth has reached 7 billion people, every single one of whom send you irritating emails to join something called "LinkedIn."
People think about, when you sell a million records, "Oh. You must be buying Ferrari's and living in mansions." It was never really like that.
The loving person makes other people feel good, and he is usually a happy person himself. He is able to form strong, long-lasting friendships.
Whatever the fighting is - boxing, fighting, Judo, Thai boxing, it's how much you know doing that. Some people just know how some people move.
I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm interested in what they say and how they say it.
Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty.
Why do people complain that there's no time to get their work done? Because there is more work to do than the work they think they have to do.
I think my confidence offends a lot of people, but I think people should learn from it and be inspired by it, instead of finding it offensive.
People who had been treated inhumanly, not given a chance to secure any foot on any ladder - and all the social mores were suddenly abandoned.
All creative people have to have vulnerability because those nuances are what move people. So I'm deeply insecure - but I'm good at hiding it.
When creative people do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge, they're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut yelling wheee.
People would say, "You know, Rich, it's nature. Birds of a feather flock together." I have to point out to them that, no, that's not the case.
Our manifesto, whatever it will be called, will come from the people who are really in charge of this country, and that's the American people.
The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.
I'm just really tiny. People hate me, because I just sit. I'm eating, I'm eating, I'm eating and then I just... sit. And I don't gain a thing.
Being busy and being productive are not necessarily the same. Many people keep busy to avoid taking action on things they're afraid to pursue.
People don't get drafted into being housewives. It's a voluntary experience, so people are putting themselves into this situation voluntarily.
The amount of people that I feel like... I'm not being self-demeaning, but I actually feel like I'm not as cool as them, you know what I mean?
I am grateful to the motherland and the people. I feel honored to fly into space on behalf of hundreds of millions of female Chinese citizens.
We rely too much on the people we share our lives with. We hold them responsible for things they are not even aware of. We start blaming them.
I realize that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before we ask someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing.
You do not need to look or be anorexic to be successful in Hollywood. The range of what's acceptable is a lot larger than what people believe.
People who are most interested in telling the truth about others are generally the least interested in having the truth told about themselves.
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
If you have only been around people who use power in cruel and petty ways, then when you hear the very word, you may have a negative reaction.