Poor is the new black. So on this film [The Land], there are poor black people, but there are also poor Latinos, and poor white people as well.

There are very few of us, who reach my advanced age, who are still working in the business, as writers. As artists, people can hang out longer.

Everyone has seen people dancing all night. But take a man and make him dance for a quarter of an hour without music and see if he can bear it.

When you're running for president you have to take some risks and you've got to show people something fresh and you've got to stay interesting.

For healthy adult people, the really big thing we can foresee are ways of intervening in the ageing process, either by slowing or reversing it.

The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.

I don't go to the cool, trendy restaurants. I go to either the holes in the wall or the super-fancy restaurants where there are no cool people.

I, George Bush, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the decade beginning January 1, 1990, as the Decade of the Brain.

I think a lot of people get into stand-up to be the center of attention, which is perfectly legitimate. But I think I got in there to be heard.

The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it.

I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.

We are two different people, Ethan. Just because you could never decide which one of us you were in love with does not make us interchangeable.

Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts itself off from its youth severs its lifeline; it is condemned to bleed to death.

I've been told by people I respect that flashbacks only work if they have their own narrative, but they can't be part of the present narrative.

The world would become better off If people tried to become better. And people would become better If they stopped trying to become better off.

Your spiritual gifts were not given for your own benefit but for the benefit of others, just as other people were given gifts for your benefit.

All the privileged can travel, see different worlds, not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.

People follow my movies for a reason, and that's because I believe in them, and I don't want to just make movies for the sake of making movies.

People always talk about good, fresh country air, but I kept getting wiffs of something that was neither good nor fresh but definitely country.

Educated people can make their own choices about their governments. And certainly for women, an education allows you to understand your rights.

At one point, people thought that Eddie Murphy would only reach one sector of the audience, but now everyone sees everything Eddie Murphy does.

I thought it was very humanitarian of Sean Penn and Madonna to marry each other. That way, they make only two people miserable instead of four.

What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they're great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they engage with people.

People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.

I'm very little drawn to photographing people that are known or even subjects that are known. They fascinate me when I've barely heard of them.

I don't think we live in a place where we don't want people to be able to say when they disagree with the president or incoming administration.

In a world where profit is consistently put before both people and the planet, climate economics has everything to do with ethics and morality.

It's interesting to watch people go through it in something like this. I mean, what other then Melancholia films do they portray depression in?

People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them.

We might all be so afraid to be who we are, but in the end, it's really you're individual, unique qualities that make you attractive to people.

Not many people do at the age of 21 or younger even, know how to act nor could be concerned with anything other than fighting, women and money.

I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.

But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.

What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.

When permitted to listen to alternative opinions and engage in substantive debate, people have been known to change their minds. It can happen.

I am not generous about telling people who I am and what I like to do because it's my life and it only belongs to me and my friends and family.

But in the end our government usually - not unfailingly - is responsive to the people; and usually - not always - will try to do what is right.

I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as such they are valid.

There's a perception that British pies suffer from mediocrity, and historically they have. We're trying to re-educate people about what pie is.

People always say that Californian women are obsessed with their appearance but I think you've got to take good care of yourself, for yourself.

And God said 'Let there be Satan, so people don't blame everything on me. And let there be lawyers, so people don't blame everything on Satan.'

Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.

In 2000 the majority of people wanted me and Buchanan on the debates in two thousand. And me on the debates in 2004. have there been any polls?

I worked on a number of projects that were used by millions of people and that also served as inspiration to what we now call "crowd-sourcing."

In Hawaii, they're happy to hear that you're filming a show. They love it that people actually come and make use of their beautiful landscapes.

Maybe the word welfare should be changed to something of, 'a transitional living fund.' For that is what it is - for people to be able to live.

I think I've inspired a lot of people, and I'm one, if I get a letter and someone's in serious shape, I'll call them. I relate to these people.

Leadership defines what the future should look like, aligns people with that vision, and inspires them to make it happen despite the obstacles.

As an actor to watch an audience of people howl together in a single mind as a result of work you've done together with friends is a privilege.

I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.

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