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Where are people going? I wonder what they hope will happen and what they are afraid of? For me it's the same thing and has to do with being loved.
It is bizarre that some people can't understand how a serious poet could work at a finance firm. Goethe was a bureaucrat. Eliot worked as a banker.
I grew up in a crazy, gypsy-like household of actors, dancers and loony Broadway people. It was their way of life, and I didn't know anything else.
What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.
Terrorism is an example of that extreme madness. People blow themselves up just to kill others. Unconscious reaction to terrorism is equal madness.
The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility.
She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.
I'm not very good at multi-tasking. Most people aren't, but they think they are. The mind is really better when you're really focused on one thing.
[People] have a fear of the, the Muslim movement and the Muslim religion because it has a tendency to make the people who accept it stick together.
Jesus measured greatness in terms of service not status. God determines your greatness by how many people you serve, not how many people serve you.
I think what happens is when something becomes successful, then a lot of people take credit for it in such ways that it takes credit away from you.
The more things you do outside of your norm, the more ideas you get exposed to, the more people you get exposed to, and I think that's interesting.
As soon as I gave birth, it was as if you understand them. They become people, not kids. You start to identify with them. You see yourself in them.
Much of what we see in America, what most people feel has been progress and good things, have been brought about by the existence of third parties.
So I got off the plane and I forget to take off my seat-belt and I'm dragging the plane through the terminal... The wings are knocking people over.
It's better to look for the people that look like you and do something with them, create something new - the mainstream isn't that special anyways.
In America, the most important thing is that people have freedom. In restricted countries, the most important thing is what people do with freedom.
The Bible just said ‘Thou shalt not kill’, then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming heroes, like David with Goliath.
I think the biggest problem in the world is that we have a generation of young people, and maybe two, who don't think it's going to get any better.
I'm overwhelmed by shame that the people who had the responsibility to take care of the tender ones violated that trust and caused them great pain.
In India, we kind of concentrate only on weight loss. I want to teach people that it is very important to be strong and fit, rather than just thin.
People do complain about the way I act on stage... They think on stage I act too arrogant, too self-obsessed, solecistic, self-contained, synonyms.
When we judge, we are pushing people away; we are creating a wall, a barrier. When we forgive we are destroying barriers, we come closer to others.
It's unnatural and unhealthy for a nation to be engaged in global crusades for some principle or idea while neglecting the needs of its own people.
I'm reasonably headstrong about what I believe in, and what I go for, and I've got fantastic people around me who give me great support and advice.
People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them.
It’s almost just a difference of mood as to whether I would describe myself one way or the other. I think I share that experience with most people.
I love the DJ scene out in the clubs. It is a great way to party and make people happy, the atmosphere is one that I use as an escape from reality.
The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human element]
I always like being surprised and sort of caught off guard by other people's work. So it doesn't cause me any anxiety to explore different avenues.
You've got to love people, places, ideas; you've got to live with mind, body, soul; you've got to be committed; there is no life on the side-lines.
It is only by questioning what people take for granted, what people hold to be true, that we can break through the hypnosis of social conditioning.
Don't waste your love on stupid people. Anyone stupid enough to deny or reject it-in the midst of the Love Depression we're in-does not deserve it.
Fidel Castro had universal health care for all Cubans, and universal education for all the Cuban people, no money required. This was his challenge.
I like the cinema of people like Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton. I am not keen on trying to reproduce reality - for that you should do documentaries.
Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it.
When I turned 40 I thought, 'I have to really make sure I have time to myself,' because it's very overwhelming to be taking care of so many people.
When you're the lead and on most of the call sheets, some people have expectations of you and whether you like it or not, you kind of set the tone.
Even the kinds of ingredients you can find in your own kitchen can be used to make bombs. So the problem is with the people and not with the tools.
If you don't live by priorities, you'll live by pressures. Either you determine what's important in life or other people will determine it for you.
People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner.
I remember thinking cocaine was subtle until I noticed I'd been awake for three weeks and didn't know any of the naked people passed out around me.
I get a huge kick out of training people, out of helping people, out of just being a part of a process that I get to see people's dreams come true.
I'm really happy to be me, and I'd like to think people like me more because I'm happy with myself and not because I refuse to conform to anything.
Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?
...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.
Rivers of living water are to be poured out over the whole world, to ensure that people, like fishes caught in a net, can be restored to wholeness.
I'm not interested in writing for adults. I like them as people! I don't like the way they publish books in that world. Nothing ever gets a chance.
I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.
Music is 99% of my life. But I know I need a break. Besides, if you give people too much, they start to not want it. We need to restrain ourselves.