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Typically, in Westerns, people who are in a Western feel like they're in a Western. It's almost like they know they do all these Western things.
Oppressed people are treacherous for the simple reason that treachery is both a means of survival and a way to curry favor with one's oppressor.
I'm very bubbly, so when people meet me, they sometimes think I'm fake. I'm excited to meet new people, but I guess I sound I'm being sarcastic.
Rich people take advice from people who are richer than they are. Poor people take advice from their friends, who are just as broke as they are.
How do you explain the bond between man and wife? Well, for one thing, it's private. What people do in their own marriage is their own business.
Some people try to say I'm British by the way I'm speaking. But I think I'm more Canadian, because I speak really slow. Midwestern and Canadian.
The consummate gentleman on the planet today is George Clooney, who never fails to go the extra mile for people. Every person matters to George.
If you can create an environment where people are invited to do their best work and the best ideas always win, then the project itself will win.
I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
On MySpace ... the whole demographic of the stand-up comedy fan has changed. It's like an indie band thing. People think they've discovered you.
Some people could say, "I'd like something that's super dramatic and miserable and made me cry and made me sad forever" but that's not my taste.
It's undeserved success that people are so terribly afraid of losing; they know they haven't any way, themselves, of ever getting it back again.
Smoking is a shocking thing - blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes, and noses, and having the same thing done to us.
I think it's alarming that people believe that success enables one to forget how life felt before. As if one could simply exchange one's values.
[Donald] Trump doesn't give up and let [the Democrats] have what they want. But people around Trump and some others in the world of politics do.
When you deejay a party, a good DJ's job is to take care of the crowd. If people want to hear Britney Spears, that's what you're supposed to do.
Police officers and firemen are so visible in their daily work, there's no mistaking they're there - and that presence makes people feel secure.
I don't really care if people like a character ornot; I think in life we don't always like everybody. But you haveto be able to understand them.
Many times I can see a solution to something differently and quicker than other people. I see the end zone and say 'This is where I want to go.'
I don't think I've changed anything, but I hope that by my talks I have encouraged people in their practice. That's as much as any of us can do.
People always come up to me and say, 'you should do standup.' It's nice to discover things about yourself. That keeps everything lively and fun.
The people who are the worst at news, who kind of engage in what I call the World Wrestling of news, have kind of set the bar for where news is.
Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.
Some people think about sex all the time; some people think of sex some of the time; and some people never think about sex: they become lawyers.
The public has yet to see TV as TV. Broadcasters have no awareness of its potential. The movie people are just beginning to get a grasp on film.
When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.
I love the way art moves people emotionally. I love the fact that when someone purchases art it is the one thing that will last for generations.
The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.
My most cryptic, strange songs might be my most personal, but that isn't how people are going to receive them, because they don't know the code.
Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is it the other way.
I don't do the L.A. scene. I stay focused and very myopic. I don't feel I need to prove myself or be in people's faces, especially in this town.
God is a peaceful ground of being. He is the energy of nonviolence. To ask Him to help is to ask Him to turn us into profoundly peaceful people.
I can't establish the veracity of what people say because only they know whether they are telling the truth. I can't look into your mind, can I?
In general, costumes are the first thing in life that let other people know who we are. They indicate who the person is without saying anything.
Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people beat the odds; it changes the odds.
There are only so many ways to get people to go see stand-up, that it really is about the product; it's not so much about the theme of the show.
The important thing here to understand is that the people that are at Guantanamo are bad people. I mean, these are terrorists for the most part.
It's a very tempting thing to try and relive your glory days when you get a little older and you worry that people have forgotten all about you.
It is of the essence of the demand for equality before the law that people should be treated alike in spite of the fact that they are different.
The 80/20 principle - that 80 percent of result flow from just 20 per cent of the causes - is the one true principle of highly effective people.
I stay connected in my head. I'm spiritually and psychologically connected to African-Americans. They are my people, and that will never change.
How can you have a reasonable debate with people who are constantly changing the panic? They are moving the panic to a greater wave of hysteria?
I left parts of myself everywhere, The way absent-minded people leave Gloves and umbrellas Whose colors are sad from dispensing so much bad luck
People sometimes hold themselves back because they want to use racism as an excuse for them not being able to achieve what they want to achieve.
We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own turf in order to create this common ground.
People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
You young people with your twittering and your creating of content. Or what is it - queefing? I don't know what you young people are calling it.
Generally in New York, people just walk over you with no problem about that. Other countries, people want to resuscitate you, like, after a bit.
The photograph is kind of a proof - a proof that I actually met these people, that they actually have lives, and that they're worth considering.
There are these important things in some people's lives that can make you laugh even when you're going through a tough time or a stressful week.