People Quotes - Page 666

It's therapy. [people] say true healing requires honest confrontation, and that can be seen on a macro scale with America and the things that have been swept under the rug, whether it be with the native Americans or slavery, or whatever holocaust that's happened on this soil.

Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.

People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.

People in towns are always preoccupied. 'Have I missed the bus? Have I forgotten the potatoes? Can I get across the road?

In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.

Newspapers are horror happening to other people.

You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people.

A lot of people have their own perceptions about me, like I'm very stuck up, so full of myself, you know. But it's not true.

The central benefit of Zen, in the context of ordinary ups and downs of life,is not in preventing the minus and promoting the plus,but in directing people to the fundamental reality that is not under the sway of ups and downs.

The State is a professional apparatus that sets itself apart from the people and apart from the institutions that the people themselves create. It's a monopoly on violence that manages and institutionalizes social activities. The people are perfectly capable of managing themselves and creating their own institutions.

Divisiveness is not good for the people.

Poverty is not created by poor people. It is produced by our failure to create institutions to support human capabilities.

When people say I don't see you enough, well just because you don't see me don't mean I don't exist or just 'cause you haven't heard me don't mean I haven't been making noise. But if I keep making noise, you'll pick up.

I don't believe in good people and bad people. I believe in the better parts of people.

I'm for capital punishment. You've got to execute people. How else are they going to learn?

You can do and have and be things that people once said that's impossible for you to do and have and be.

People who know Clinton knew the guy has a real problem keeping his hands off women.

I find the positive in the negative all the time. Any time you give something power, it wins, and it can continuously happen, so I just let negative people know they have no place in my life. They have no place around my children.

Try to achieve the impossible and direct your people to ways of achieving it.

It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.

Music can always serve a role in people's lives when it's emotional and warm and inviting and beautiful.

My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the country's unique culture and folk customs.

I like being able to fire people.

The minimum wage is mostly an entry-level wage for young people.

You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.