People Quotes - Page 357

The one thing I have never been afraid of is standing before important people and speaking my mind. I represent women who may never have the opportunity to go to the UN or meet with a president. I'm never afraid to speak truth to power.

A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.

Democrats should be focused on which way we can help the most people in this country, and Republicans should be focused on how to do that in the most fiscally responsible manner possible.

Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.

If you'll do now what other people won't, you'll do later what other people can't.

The world sucks, people are not true

Treat people you do business with as if they were a part of your family.

The people who make policy decisions should damned well know what they are talking about before they make the decisions. There is nobody who is an expert on cloning who would be afraid after seeing Attack of the Clones.

Conscious people always have a choice of whether to try to modify the actions of people around them or to change their response to the incoming stimuli.

I tell people not to do their best. I don't know when that started. Quite a while ago. Because I . . . when they're doing their best I don't get their best. So I try to persuade them to be average. Because if you're wonderful and you're average, you're still wonderful. If you're a bad improviser and you're average, you're what you are.

In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective for posterity: "Compare then the blessings enjoyed by Spaniards of prudence, genius, magnanimity, temperance, humanity, and religion with those of the little men [the Indians] in whom you will scarcely find even vestiges of humanity. . . . How can we doubt that these people - so uncivilized, so barbaric, contaminated with so many impieties and obscenities - have been justly conquered?"

There are only two qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency; and only two sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient.

I thrive on change. That's probably why my chord changes are weird, because chords depict emotions. They'll be going along on one key and I'll drop off a cliff, and suddenly they will go into a whole other key signature. That will drive some people crazy, but that's how my life is.

Worry about your character, not your reputation. Your character is who you are, and your reputetion is who people think you re.

Don’t sleep with people who don’t read.

People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser...and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.

People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions.

You are not prime minister of Australia because of some kind of process of divine selection. You are prime minister of Australia through the gift of the Australian people.

There was a time when all dark-skinned people were called Ethiopians, for the Greeks referred to Africa as, 'The Land Of The Burnt-Face People.'

People who don't make mistakes are no bloody good to you at all.

People spend all their time focused on things they can't control. In truth, there are only two things you can control: your attitude and your work ethic.

Once you dive into the African-American struggle or whatever you want to call it and you look past that, you realize that it's not a black people problem, it's a human problem. We all can't be at peace until we are all at peace. If there's a piece of us suffering, then we are all suffering. That's what it's about. That's the macro level.

Be careful with whom you associate, especially when you feel emotionally vulnerable, because negative people can steal the dream right out of your heart.

I wouldn't say rock & roll is dead but the current music made by young people isn't really rock & roll.

After this whole acting thing is over and done, you eventually have to be human. Some people are never human. It's very weird.