According to the percentage people, you would be perfectly comfortable. ~By Bobby Bragan ~
People make a big fuss over you when you're President. But I'm very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn't go to my head. ~By Jimmy Carter ~
Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice. ~By Elihu Root ~
The American people know that every day 3,000 kids begin to smoke, 1,000 of them die an early death. They're not going to allow us to go forward this year and not have comprehensive bipartisan legislation. It's in everybody's best interest. ~By Erskine Bowles ~
Life is beautiful but people are crazy. ~By Charles Osgood ~
When you sing and people want that you sing, then you can hope to be great. ~By Andrea Bocelli ~
We love the ability of the people to influence the actions of decision-makers, of lawmakers and presidents to be removed from or elevated to office by the will of voters, and of the community to connect amongst diverse populations through the ballot box. ~By Charles Rangel ~
Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do. ~By Siobhan Fahey ~
If you are making music for other people, you will have to be aware of how people relate to it. ~By Ken Hill ~
And I think I find, I know a lot of people around, in different cities, and so it's not - it might sound strange - but it's not that hard to say good-bye, because I know there's other people where I'm going. I can sort of fit in in a lot of places. ~By Joe Sacco ~
It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives. ~By Todd Gitlin ~
And to do that not only for the war fighter, but also to help prepare the people in the acquisition, personnel and policy worlds who need to make adjustments in the department's business, which itself may take 10 or 15 years to accomplish. ~By Stephen Cambone ~
Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right? ~By Charles Manson ~
You just have to trust your instincts and hope that if someone doesn't like your idea, you can prove them wrong in the final process. In the end, you can please some of the people some of the time, but that's about all you can do. ~By Bryan Singer ~
I have been sworn against by perjured and wicked people. ~By William Kidd ~
I would not be opposed to devising a new system of pensions, in which one part was based on collective provision, but which also gave incentives for people to take out an additional, personal plan. ~By Jacques Delors ~
One thing that's happened to me is I've been around a long time and I've played a lot of villains and so forth. I think it had to do with, well one thing is that I looked younger than I was for a long time. Now I think I'm suddenly starting to play people's father. ~By Christopher Walken ~
I don't honestly think people know what acting is. ~By Ben Kingsley ~
I don't remember ever being full of dislike and hatred for people, like some kids I've come across now. ~By Jeffrey Bernard ~
You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't. ~By Anita Brookner ~
I'm 24. I think when I was 18, 19, I had a problem with it because I wanted to look older and more womanly. I look in the mirror and I don't feel or look 14 to myself, regardless of what other people think. I'm fine with it and it really doesn't matter what age I'm playing. ~By Alison Lohman ~
Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical. ~By Leslie Fiedler ~
People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities. ~By Rob Reiner ~
I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving. ~By Morgan Freeman ~
I believe we're all in denial about the people we love. ~By David Geffen ~
True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is. ~By R. D. Laing ~
We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on. ~By Tim Berners Lee ~
You know, they just don't make big movie stars the way they used to, maybe because the system has changed, the studio system, but it's sad to see people like Jimmy Stewart go, all the giants of the past. ~By Tom Atkins ~
Certainly, my father would not want to see me destroy myself in this business, as so many people in our family have been destroyed. I try to take good care of myself, but we are fighting the good fight, and the truth is powerful. ~By Sam Sheppard ~
The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist. ~By Bruce Boxleitner ~
The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that. ~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out. ~By Dawn Powell ~
I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American. ~By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ~
What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these stories and people would say, You should write these things down. ~By Denis Johnson ~
Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. ~By Tony Robbins ~
I love the theatre and theatre people. ~By Cyril Cusack ~
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day. ~By Paul Cezanne ~
Despite what people think of cowboys, they take pride in how they look, and that look is important to them. ~By Steve Kanaly ~
You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble. ~By Charles Olson ~
Some people say I appeared on the Phil Donahue show to tell "my" sex change story but I've never appeared on his show for any reason... not even as a member of the studio audience. ~By Eileen Davidson ~
Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria. ~By Naomi Wolf ~
A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it. ~By Anne Spencer ~
The people really are what make New York City great. ~By David Dinkins ~
I think they'd rather us follow our hearts and I hope that's what some people will understand. ~By Fred Durst ~
I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ~By Boris Pasternak ~
Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II. ~By Pope Benedict XVI ~
I've been with the same person for a very long time but I'm just non-conventional in that way. I don't think people need to be married. I think a lot of people need that piece of paper, but I don't think everybody needs that to feel secure. ~By Eva Mendes ~
When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention. ~By Neil Young ~
It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on. ~By Floyd Abrams ~
When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools. ~By Russell Baker ~
Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job. ~By Laura Dern ~
I want to express my deepest apology to the athletes, the people of Salt Lake City in Utah and the millions of citizens worldwide who love and respect the games. ~By Juan Antonio Samaranch ~
I put on such a good show, the story is outrageous, and people don't want to hear that I'm basically a reasonable human being. As long as it continues to get me print, I'll continue to perform in an exuberant manner. ~By James Ellroy ~
It's really a good feeling to know that we put this up there, that it's working, that all these people's plans that worked so hard came together and things fit and we've got a real space station. ~By Linda M. Godwin ~
First and foremost, I'm a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity, rights and respect. ~By Kathy Najimy ~
Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve. ~By Bob Riley ~
Planned obsolescence is not really a new concept. God used it with people. ~By Robert Orben ~
The Iraqi people are living better lives now than three year ago, no longer living in fear. ~By Tim Murphy ~
There are certain wicked people in the world that you can't deal with except by force. ~By John Keegan ~
Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth. ~By Toni Morrison ~
We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths. ~By Iris Chang ~
The voice of the people is the voice of humbug. ~By William Tecumseh Sherman ~
Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them. ~By Thomas Aquinas ~
I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world. ~By Judy Collins ~
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. ~By Kurt Eisner ~
Not compromising the music, but there is a way, by just showing the people that you're sincere and honest with what you're doing, and by talking to them. ~By Chuck Mangione ~
One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures. ~By Larry Wall ~
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people. ~By Abraham Lincoln ~
The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified. ~By Jeremy Renner ~
There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to want what they can't have and not want what is readily available to them. ~By M. Kathleen Casey ~
When you beat a team so often - especially like this season when Chelsea had already lost three times to us - you know people expect you to do it again. But you also know they're going to be even more motivated to finally win. ~By Dennis Bergkamp ~
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost. ~By Barack Obama ~
But the drugs are kind of like taboo, at least among me and my friends and the people I've worked with. ~By Ethan Suplee ~
I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh. ~By Alberto Sordi ~
With the situation now, people might be intrigued to see how a country coped with war all those years ago. ~By Dougray Scott ~
My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people. ~By James Cash Penney ~
As an actor and as a person you come together with being in familiar territory although that has not been my whole life. That's been a part of it. I think a lot of people associate me with the west because of Sundance. ~By Robert Redford ~
I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me. ~By Thomas Merton ~
I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams. ~By Princess Diana ~
People at .08 are too impaired to drive. Studies show that at .08, the ability to perform critical driving functions is decreased by as much as 60 percent. ~By Frank Lautenberg ~
Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me. ~By Jamie Lee Curtis ~
I think that, you know, when we start talking about the Tea Party, people want to marginalize that into some kind of organization or party, but it really isn't. ~By Sharron Angle ~
The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible. ~By Alexander Chase ~
James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention. ~By Gene Simmons ~
At first I missed it, but it was the amazing energy thing that happened during shows, when a lot of people were like Yay Yay Yeah! I missed that for a while. But I don't miss the regular and the business side of that whole thing. ~By Bill Kreutzmann ~
Zionism demands a publicly recognized and legally secured homeland in Palestine for the Jewish people. This platform is unchangeable. ~By Theodor Herzl ~
People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. ~By Thomas Sowell ~
When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think my company guarantees that. There's always something new and something to excite us and surprise us, and that's why people come back, I hope. ~By Matthew Bourne ~
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid. ~By Henry James ~
In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine. ~By J. William Fulbright ~
People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold. ~By John Jay Chapman ~
We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us. But we're presumably acting in such a way that people feel morally compelled to continue our mission, not to screw it up. ~By Julian Assange ~
When you've written a movie, you then get together with a whole lot of people and make it. In many ways, I think it is far nicer to be with people rather than being completely solitary. ~By Neil Jordan ~
You're talking to someone who has been married to various people for the last 40 years of her life. Dating is not really something familiar. I've never really been a dater. ~By Stockard Channing ~
A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence. ~By Marvin Bower ~
So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience. ~By James Iha ~
People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception. ~By Charles Dudley Warner ~
A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image. ~By Adrian Edmondson ~
I don't care what people's myths are about me. ~By Kelly Lynch ~
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it. ~By John Lennon ~
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