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Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?
Marketers know that if people you respect - perhaps laughably including entertainers and athletes - say they like a product, you're more likely to buy.
I was blessed throughout my entire career. I had people rooting for me. It started with my parents, but it extended to almost every teacher that I had.
Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality to reach the widest possible audience.
The general public knows practically nothing about the prison and appears to be little concerned about how it is managed and how prisoners are treated.
Look at the whole criminal correction game, which is a big piece of our economy. It's just an invention. Crime is being invented to put people to work.
When you see big people, they expect them to wobble or something. The whole feeling of bigger people in this country is so negative. This works for me.
It is always difficult to get across to people who are not professional writers that a talent to write does not mean a talent to write anything at all.
I have known people throughout my years of playing where maybe they had a gig, but then lost the gig because they didn't really move forward with them.
An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.
I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come.
"Winning" is a subjective word, but we are making advancement. This is the correct word, because winning for some people is when you finish completely.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them.
Mary Kay knew that when you put people first and then surround them with processes and disciplines that recognize their efforts, performance will soar.
Though, when a people shall have become incapable of governing themselves and fit for a master, it is of little consequence from what quarter he comes.
The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching way.
Try to find the path of least resistance and use it without harming others. Live with integrity and morality, not only with people but with all beings.
I feel like a good song is one that ticks all the boxes, but a great song is one that has this kind of special quality that just resonates with people.
A lot of people don't know the culture shock of how you can be in a rich area and then be in poverty. People don't know how different it is over there.
There are no words to express my sorrow and regret for the pain I have caused others by words and actions. To the people I have hurt, I am truly sorry.
There are some people who love being a something, but I also got the gist in the 60's when I grew up that you could be, in the art scene, very diverse.
And every now and then people find the bugs, and they interpret those as cool failures in the Sims terms. For them it's like a treasure hunt, you know.
It's funny, people talk about the characters they play and who do you sort of see yourself as or which ones maybe were closest to you and in some ways.
The United States was proud to stand with the people of Germany as this nation and this continent reunited and rebuilt and reached for a better future.
My work has been much more Caribbean and eclectic. I am interested in people, and where they come from happens to have fallen within an area of Africa.
Some people only dream about touring around the world with their friends and that's exactly what we're doing, and we could never take that for granted.
Some people perceive Skinner to be complex. I just basically was trying to remember my lines, so I guess that's what they perceive as being complexity.
The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.
Certainly within any decadent period, you would probably find the purest expressions of conviction, and I do not see that in many of the people I know.
I told John Kerry and General Allen, the Americans’ expert, ‘We live here, I live here, I know what we need to ensure the security of Israel’s people.’
It's the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.
I think that most great artists who are extremely known, as I am, would intimidate a lot of people. I don't want to do that to people, but I know I do.
Sometimes good television doesn't depend on money, it depends on imagination and good people directing, casting and doing the job with talented people.
The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand it.
Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system which suppresses the truth or fears to publish it, deserves to collapse.
I'd rather work on my radio show, which no one hears but I put about eight hours of programming and writing into it for those 30 people who do tune in.
The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.
A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope.
It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be accomplished by passing a Constitutional amendment.
When God is about to give His people the expected good, He pours out a Spirit of prayer, and it is a good sign that He is coming towards them in mercy.
I have a lot of fans who are people of color. I think, if nothing else, I kind of understand that sense of being on the outside looking in, culturally.
Some people take pleasure in regaling one and all with details of their poor health. They are happy to give an organ recital to anyone who will listen.
The real trick for me as a director is to make sure that people don't start pushing because the harder you push as a perform the less funny it becomes.
In my fourth grade classroom, I even instituted a government structure, because I was really interested in people having positions and there being law.
The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave until it is healed or dead.
People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out.
A vision is something you see and others don't. Some people would say that's a pocket definition of lunacy. But it also defines entrepreneurial spirit.
My paternal grandmother gave me the courage to investigate things and not take things at face value or judge people by what I first imagine them to be.
The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.
But the absolute worst was when people asked if I was okay. Because then I had to admit that it was real, it happened, and we weren't together anymore.