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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
Understand the "Pygmalion Effect": Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.
Few people will turn to themselves to take responsibility for their results until they have exhausted all opportunities to blame someone else.
There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.
And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker.
I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.
The digital world is developing with such force and such a pace that you simply can't ban or control it. People want to be globally connected.
I think I have a very detailed sense of observation. I am interested in the details of people's lives and what information these details give.
Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.
I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become historical the next day.
We are the shadow cast by real people. And that shadow changes shape as the news cycle changes shape, so you always have fresh dirt to dig in.
The reason I love Luis Palau is because this is a guy who is completely all about evangelism and reaching people and the lost with the gospel.
[W]hen a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality binds and blinds.
I've met a lot of famous people that I just thought were so unbelievable. For me, meeting Julie Andrews was probably the highlight of my life.
If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the work of the moment.
It is my conviction that the fundamental trouble with the people of the United States is that they have gotten too far away from Almighty God.
If you're in a theater, people are texting, all around you. You have the little glowing screens everywhere. Think of how annoying that can be.
We do not know how we'd behave. But a lot of people facing fascism didn't become fascists. I don't happen to believe that we are all monsters.
Blank-slate friendships were thin and temperamental. She knew that. There was no history there to cement people together, for better or worse.
We're more Christian than the Pope. And, I mean, that's not our religion. We pray to the Gods of our conquerors... all black and brown people.
When I sit down to interview people, I don't hold questions and I don't know the answers. They're more like conversations that become lessons.
People never heard bells in Western music sounding really cataclysmic. You hear that more in Russian music or in Asian, Indonesian traditions.
There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
I want my words and actions to be the quantification of my love. To make tangible the passions in my heart for the world and the people in it.
Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, reconciliation and international cooperation.
I felt as I hadn't felt for ages. I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. for the first time I'd realized how all these people loathed me.
I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way through a song that I don't really know anymore.
The Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly obligatory upon all.
But what's the good of freedom? What can you do with it? What one wants is to live well and have a beautiful house and be respected by people.
One of the problems that Hillary Clinton had, and one of the problems that Democrats still have is people don't really know what we stand for.
Othello' is the most domestic of Shakespeare's tragedies and the one that's likely to strike a personal note with a lot of people watching it.
If the Czar will not accord our people these desired liberties, then a revolution will bring about a republic which will assure us our rights.
My heroes among filmmakers would be people like Buñuel and Pasolini, who were of very high cinematic intelligence, but tread on a lot of toes.
There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought; it is the hardest work in the world
It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying isolated things like, "Well, isn't this nice.
The wiping out of millions of homes took away Black and Brown wealth. It drove poverty, it drove unemployment, it drove people to food stamps.
You are the Protector of the Small. You see real people in the humans and animals overlooked by your peers. There will always be work for you.
Any social or cultural change has to be made openly and with people agreeing. You don't get there by just pushing an outsider's point of view.
People are interested in science, but they don't always know they're interested in science, and so I try to find a way to get them interested.
To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a particular people.
Listen to people from your heart, as if your life depended on it, and you will find that in turn people will listen to you with all of theirs.
It is a ludicrous statistic plucked out of the air and used to justify a quite appalling attack on many of the poorest people in this country.
Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
It's very important to make the man believable so that you can stretch the fantasy. Whether people like this kind of Bond is another question.
People go through three conversions: The conversion of their head, their heart, and their pocketbook. Unfortunately, not all at the same time.
I want to be sure that if people are coming to a show and paying $100 that I want to give them their money's worth. I try to give 100 percent.
Maybe people are not able to define their fears. But they have them, and it shows from their behavior. There is so much frustration and anger.
I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that we wouldn't have access to.
Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.