People Quotes - Page 188

I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just sit back and let other people define our existence.

We live in an age where quantity is seen as preferable to quality, and many people tend to work in a horizontal line: next, next, next. But if you do that, you never investigate the vertical line - the depth of the piece.

If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough

I always remind people from outside our state that there’s plenty of room for all Alaska’s animals — right next to the mashed potatoes.

The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.

It is rather more noble to help people purely out of concern for their suffering than it is to help them because you think the Creator of the Universe wants you to do it, or will reward you for doing it, or will punish you for not doing it. The problem with this linkage between religion and morality is that it gives people bad reasons to help other human beings when good reasons are available.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.

It’s not stress that kills people, but how they react to it.

To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship.

I saw with open eyes, Singing birds sweet, Sold in the shops, For the people to eat, Sold in the shops of, Stupidity Street.

HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.

You have to learn how to care about people without taking on all of their problems.

We're not trying to prove the character of God through science. That's a bad idea. What I'm trying to do is clear away the misunderstandings, the debris that prevent people from accepting that God who wants to accept them.

What I've noticed is that people who love what they do, regardless of what that might be, tend to live longer.

The United States is like the Titanic, and I'm here with the lifeboat trying to get people to leave the ship... I see a real financial crisis coming for the United States.

Sometimes people's spiritual ideas become fixed and they use them against those who don't share their beliefs - in effect, becoming fundamentalist. It's very dangerous - the finger of righteous indignation pointing at someone who is identified as bad or wrong.

There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.

It’s pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

We see now that infringement of freedom is necessary with regard to the opponents of the revolution. At a time of revolution we cannot allow freedom for the enemies of the people and of the revolution. That is a surely clear, irrefutable conclusion.

I try to be the best husband I can be, and if people respect that, that's cool. But there's no "perfect husband." We just all try to do the best we can, you know what I mean?

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.

A lot of people that buy vinyl today don’t realise that they’re listening to CD masters on vinyl and that’s because the record companies have figured out that people want vinyl, And they're only making CD masters in digital, so all the new products that come out on vinyl are actually CDs on vinyl, which is really nothing but a fashion statement.

If you have to talk to more than three people about the same problem, you don't want help, you want attention.