People Quotes - Page 1464

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people.

What we seek to advance, what we seek to develop in all of our colleges and universities, are educated men and women who can bear the burdens of responsible citizenship, who can make judgments about life as it is, and as it must be, and encourage the people to make those decisions which can bring not only prosperity and security, but happiness to the people of the United Sates and those who depend upon it.

The biggest weakness of the green-consumer movement, always, is that we tend to pick the easy-to-do things because that's where we can most readily engage people. It doesn't cost them very much to switch products or whatever it happens to be.

Simply making myself aware of others has remarkably improved my social life. People accept me much faster now that I ignore them less.

Because I come from that old-school optics environment, I know stuff about depth of field and camera movement and things that are not necessarily a part of the curriculum for people who started on a box and have never done anything that wasn't on a box.

The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.

Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.

The other thing I like, in fact, several months ago I introduced a bill to end the absurd catch and release policy where our government has been giving tickets, essentially, to people who enter illegally and then letting them go and show up of their own volition.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

History is full of people who thought they were right -- absolutely right, completely right, without a shadow of a doubt. And because history never seems like history when you are living through it, it is tempting for us to think the same.

The reason bin Laden staggered the planes going into the towers was so every camera would be focused on the second tower when the plane hit. It was not only the murder, but the perpetual image of the horror that permeated into people's consciousness.

Well, acting itself is a form of rebellion, always. Getting up there in front of people, telling stories - you're kind of going against the grain to begin with, wanting to do that, don't you think? Why else would you do it? Except maybe as kind of a way to affirm your very existence.

I think we ought to talk about what the American people want, and that is jobs and get the economy on track.

Naturally, people's image is of a performer, but the reality of it is the writing for me has always been the most important thing and the most rewarding thing.

In the Old Testament, God dealt with His people as a nation...Their relationship was completely external. But in the New Covenant, the presence of God moved out of the temple and into our hearts.

In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die.

One of the big lessons of a big project is you don't want people that aren't really programmers programming, you'll suffer for it!

I have seen so few films in which the sex felt really respected by the filmmaker. Hollywood too often shies away from it or makes adolescent jokes about it... Sex is only connected to the negative because people are scared of it.

Surprising people is the key to career longevity for someone like me.

I love that people can't place me. They don't know my name. That's 'mission accomplished' in my world.

People say, 'Don't you get tired of people coming up to you all the time?' But what's wrong with strangers saying they love you?

I like people who are able to keep pushing themselves and challenging themselves even after great success.

I like to be in waiting rooms with people as they're auditioning, because their terror calms me.

Many people help construct our attitudes at a certain time and place.

As a leader, you will never get ahead until your people are behind you.