People Quotes - Page 1182

What's valuable to me has become clearer as I've got older. To me, it's about the value of your time and your day and the value of the people you spend it with.

We are all human and I want to relate that message to all people.

People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.

Different people feel differently about resigning

I always am very aggressive and putting out much more than people would like, but that's the business I'm in.

I have to paint fast on television because of the limited time, but I don't want people to see what I'm showing them as work, something to worry and fret over. This is supposed to be fun.

We're all real people with moments of intense honesty and pathos and humanity. We all experience that, whether you're comedic or not.

Why these people who want to do so much good for everyone, who call themselves government and this and that, why them say you must not use the herb? You see, them say you must not use the herb because it makes you a rebel. Against what?

Opportunities are abundant, but most people are afraid to do the work

Don't people know that they don't have to heckle the president of the United States? That's what Congress is for.

We were great mates [with Rajiv Gandhi]: very, very, very close friends. In fact, on my visit to India as Prime Minister, we were going to his home for dinner. There were two aspects I remember: one is him saying how he had trouble with his security people, because they insisted he wears a vest. He said it was very uncomfortable and he often took it off, but of course, in the end, it wouldn't have mattered if he'd been wearing three vests - he would have been gone.

Living a life fully engaged in full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget.

The thing I love about God is He intentionally guides people into failure.

Leadership is the ability to take people to places they would be afraid to go alone.

The people in my songs are all me.

There's a lot of false prophets around and that's the trouble. People say they think they know what's right and other people get people to follow them because they have a certain type of charisma, and there's always people willing to take over. People want a leader. And there will be more and more of them.

The essence of influence is pull. It's an attraction. Great influencers attract people, to themselves, and to their ideas.

It is not unnatural nor should it overly concern you that you feel the need for a change. The mistake most people make when they begin to feel this way is to ignore the voice that is telling them to stop and listen.

[Libertarians] don't denounce what the state does, they just object to who's doing it. This is why the people most victimized by the state display the least interest in libertarianism. Those on the receiving end of coercion don't quibble over their coercers' credentials. If you can't pay or don't want to, you don't much care if your deprivation is called larceny or taxation or restitution or rent. If you like to control your own time, you distinguish employment from enslavement only in degree and duration.

To find out that there is even one devoted fan who loves you, as a singer, without any condition, gives you tremendous amount of strength and courage. I work over and over again so I dont disappoint those people.

Do not ask directions from the people around you. Ask directions from the person who called you.

I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.

I never felt like I was stealing anyone's fans as much as I was introducing some younger people to comedy who will eventually find tons of other comedians that they love.

If comedy is about surprises, about tension, there's a lot of tension and surprise there, in the fact that people are expecting this to be natural.

My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that's a lovely addition.