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I think, generally, most people can't maintain anything that's particularly strict for very long. I watch people trying and failing to do that a lot.
People sing each other's songs and they cultivate standards. That's the reason why we have folk music and folk stories. History is told through song.
People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need.
A lot of making a movie is the comfort level of the people. It's just feeling open. We need to get along. We have to know something about each other.
We have to be pretty tough with mortgage companies and say you have got to give people the chance to work out their debts, sort out future mortgages.
To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt the more difficult task of living wisely.
In the criminal justice system you see the worst people on their best behavior, unlike the civil system, where the best people behave at their worst.
So many people think you have to be rich and famous to really create an impact, and it's just not true. Especially when it comes to environmentalism.
Who am I that I have to sing under an umbrella? These people are my fans, and if they can stand in the rain to hear me sing, I can stand in the rain.
I was guided by Allah (God) to give a yardstick to the voting public, particularly Black people as to what will set that candidate apart from others.
People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.
Some people are like Slinkies.They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.
People complain that pro athletes make a lot of money; but what they don't understand is that we need a lot of money because we spend a lot of money.
I try to work with people who you're not used to seeing in scary movies. I think it makes for a more interesting mix, when you're watching the movie.
There's some things there that you just have to draw the line. Some people are just not going to like it. We would hope that everybody would like it.
I guess libertarianism is always considered so weird and fringe that people assume that you're in the closet if you don't go around talking about it.
There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path.
Leadership isn't just legislation, that it's a matter of persuading people and giving them confidence, and bringing them together and setting a tone.
The moment people talk of "implementing" instead of "doing," and of "finalizing" instead of "finishing," the organization is already running a fever.
People are drawn to radical Islam because they feel their traditional ways of life threatened by the influx of KFC and Hollywood movies and the like.
The Wacken festival started more than 20 years ago with just a few hundred people in attendance. Tickets now sell out before the lineup is announced.
People won't buy insurance until they're sick. If you can call on your way to the hospital and get coverage, it's not really insurance at that point.
I have had a few people recognise me in public. But I wouldn't like everybody to recognise me. I can still walk across the street and not be noticed.
If you have the desire, if you really had people with the burning desire to lower taxes, it would be done. We know the Democrats don't want to do it.
By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we'll lead them to damnation and not salvation.
Wikipedia is forcing people to accept the stone-cold bummer that knowledge is produced and constructed by argument rather than by divine inspiration.
The one thing in my films, I only kill people who need to be killed, or killers killing killers. And I believe that the violence is very justifiable.
Tobacco farmers would say, "Look, I'm just trying to make a living and feed my family." Nevertheless, tobacco is incredibly harmful and kills people.
People listen to the beat first. So if that doesn't draw people in especially with the audience I cater to, they're definitely about that production.
Part of living is understanding where the fringes are. Once you know how far people go, you can say, "Well, here's how I choose to represent myself."
Somebody has to be prepared to be the good guy from time to time in order for the human race to prosper, though most people don't want it to be them.
Maintain a sense of humor. People who take themselves too seriously are power-crazy. If they win it will be haircuts for all. Beware of power freaks.
The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.
"Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.
When in all the nations of the world the rule of law is the darling of the leaders and the plague of the people, we ought to begin to recognize this.
Security is a big concern on the social web. People are going to try to destroy social media just like they are trying to breach data in other areas.
Maybe that's why there's an insecurity sometimes in acting, because it's not like there's a correlation between hard work and how people receive you.
There are people with a lot more talent than I have who have been weeded out of the league because they couldn't put their egos aside to fill a role.
There is nothing that you may not get people to believe in if you will only tell it them loud enough and often enough, till the welkin rings with it.
It is very difficult for [people] to accept the idea that someone as inconsequential as Oswald could have killed someone as consequential as Kennedy.
Every now and then, you get people who tend to forget what this country is about, which is a melting pot of races and cultures and freedom of speech.
Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually speak.
Don't forget that in the history of the world, there was a plebiscite, in which Christ and Barabbas were being judged, and the people chose Barabbas.
It's impossible to go through life not offending people. All you have to do is basically have an opinion on anything, and you're gonna offend people.
He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset
People magazine had been around for a short period of time, but nobody had thought about putting entertainment news on a nightly basis on television.
What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.
In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another.
You put faith in people sometimes that can't deliver for you. And those are mistakes and you have to... don't work with them again. It's pretty easy.
Even today, a majority of people surveyed say that they regret the fact that the USSR collapsed. But only 9 percent say that they would want it back.