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It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people, had assets.
You would not believe the amount of feedback I've gotten over people binge-watching The West Wing. Most of them have binge-watched it countless times.
I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do.
I hire people that are good, and aren't crazy. Or assholes. Because that takes up too much time. There are just as many good people who are not crazy.
People need to stand up hold hands, talk about alternatives. Alternatives, alternatives, alternatives. And people united will never, ever be defeated.
It always takes a group of people working together with a common purpose in an atmosphere of trust and collaboration to get extraordinary things done.
I never thought of myself as a king. People really want you to be their deity. They forget the fact that you are a person who has feelings and doubts.
If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined.
Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.
He didn't think he belonged here, so she was making him face some uncomfortable facts. People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted.
Many people don't realise until they are on their deathbed and everything external falls away that no thing ever had anything to do with who they are.
Almost all the people who’ve had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though I couldn’t but have met them.
People often ask me if I know the secret of success and if I could tell others how to make their dreams come true. My answer is, you do it by working.
Developing a compiler was a logical move; but in matters like this, you don't run against logic - you run against people who can't change their minds.
I think there are a lot of books about thin, attractive people having thin, attractive people's problems. I'm better set up to tell a different story.
It's even hard for people to imagine today that telephones were wired, and they certainly were and you went to the end of a wire to make a phone call.
The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much, because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.
New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember being led by God
Technology is an incredible tool - it connects people to each other, creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans.
I'm a sensitive guy, and I'm already one of my harshest critics, so if other people are hard on me, it just amplifies how hard I already am on myself.
What's so exciting is to be able to just take something and polish it so much that hopefully in the future people will start borrowing things from it.
Changing behavior is less a matter of giving people analysis to influence their thoughts than helping them to see a truth to influence their feelings.
Eat where the people eat, not the hotels and touristy restaurants. If a local teacher makes $50 a month and they're living decently, see what they do.
Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.
I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States.
What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don't intend to be one of them.
Every time I think that it’s not worth it – that the people in it deserve the misery of their lives – I come across someone who makes me rethink that.
It is a tribute to the American people that our leaders perceived that they had to lie to us, it is not a tribute to us that we were so easily misled.
I think that humanity is at an all-time low in how we value life, especially among young Black people. We just don't really value each other's lives .
I now, more and more, appreciate when I'm in a group of good people and get to work in good movies and projects. I'm wildly grateful and appreciative.
I've still kind of maintained a low profile but people still kind of recognize you and will come up to you, and that's taken a bit of getting used to.
I like doing radio because it's so intimate. The moment people hear your voice, you're inside there heads, not only that, you're in there laying eggs.
People looking up at her--at her smooth pretty vivacious face--had no way of knowing about the painfully articulated resolves formulating in her mind.
You've seen what you've seen; you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world.
Some people who love boxing might love Mike Tyson, but people outside of the sport are generally repulsed by him and therefore, repulsed by the sport.
In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way.
People don't go to the movies to get the news, people don't go to the movies to learn a lesson. People go to the movie to get an emotional experience.
I think I'm really lucky that the things I'm able to love - people, animals - it's like the more you put yourself into it, the more you get out of it.
The movie people would have nothing to do with me until they heard me speak in a Broadway play, then they all wanted to sign me for the silent movies.
As an actor, you're trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say the right thing about the people you're working with...
When people look at a photograph, they believe it... My photographs crawl along that edge. I document the world, but from my own biased point of view.
Sometimes I'll leave the house and go to a delicatessen down the street from me - it's been there a million years - just because I can look at people.
Blaxploitation films were black films targeting black people. They were films made to appeal to a culture in a way that was supposed to be unfiltered.
People say that death is a part of life and there must be something to it, but I just see it as bad news and I want everybody to stop sugarcoating it.
I look at myself and read what people say on the internet and some fans say the club should get rid of me - which shows how fickle some people can be.
People can look at me any way they want to. If somebody meets me and hangs out with me, they can see what kind person I am. I can't change for people.
Enlightenment is a perfect state of mind. It is the direct seeing of reality. The world most people see, which they call life, is really just a dream.
All things being equal, letting people make decisions for themselves will produce smarter outcomes, collectively, than relying on government planners.
Being snubbed is not always a bad thing at awards shows because you end up getting a lot of people coming up to you and telling you how great you are.
People knew about Babi Yar before Yevtushenko's poem, but they were silent. And when they read the poem, the silence was broken. Art destroys silence.