People Quotes - Page 364

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make

I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.

Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people.

The sight of one's own heart is degrading; people are not meant to look inward - that's why they've been given bodies, to hide their souls.

I think penguins are the most human of all the birds, which may be why people love them. They're cute, they stand upright and they look like they're wearing tuxedos.

Truly powerful people don't explain why they want respect. They simply don't engage someone who doesn't give it to them.

I wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said?.

If you are always waiting to be, do, or have what you want, your energy becomes blocked. Your body may reflect this in excess weight or other physical problems. Express yourself directly. Set clear boundaries with other people and do what you need to do to take good care of yourself. Energy will then move freely through your body and this circulation will dissolve any excess weight. The more you are willing to be yourself, the less you'll need to use food as a substitute nurturer. You will be receiving the natural nurturing of the universe.

I don't know why people call me a jazz singer, though I guess people associate me with jazz because I was raised in it, from way back. I'm not putting jazz down, but I'm not a jazz singer...I've recorded all kinds of music, but (to them) I'm either a jazz singer or a blues singer. I can't sing a blues – just a right-out blues – but I can put the blues in whatever I sing. I might sing 'Send In the Clowns' and I might stick a little bluesy part in it, or any song. What I want to do, music-wise, is all kinds of music that I like, and I like all kinds of music.

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.

Ninety percent of the art of living consists of getting along with people you cannot stand.

There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.

For one, we very much need in any immigration bill - we need protection for people who are in this country and who have not become citizens, for example, that they are protected and legitimized and given permanent residency here. And we want to see some things of that kind added to the immigration bill.

The Founders warned that a free society depends on a virtuous and moral people. The current crisis reflects that their concerns were justified.

You desire a popular art? Begin by having a "people" whose minds are liberated, a people not crushed by misery and ceaseless toil, not brutalized by every superstition and every fanaticism, a people of itself, and victor in the fight that is being waged today.

Better to keep quiet and let people think you're an idiot than speak up and confirm it.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.

...Stop blaming me, thinking I'm the problem. If you think I'm the problem, then you have to change me. If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Most people want everyone else in the world to change themselves. Let me tell you, it's easier to change yourself than everyone else.

When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.

It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn't the whole population.

I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive.

When I was in Africa, this voice came to me and said, "Richard, what do you see?" I said, "I see all types of people." The voice said, "But do you see any niggers?" I said, "No." It said, "Do you know why? 'Cause there aren't any."

The human body is an incredible machine, but most people only get out of that machine what their mind allows them to.