People Quotes - Page 791

It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.

The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One timeless lesson is that if citizens are subjected to state-sponsored religious exercises, the State disavows its own duty to guard and respect that sphere of inviolable conscience and belief which is the mark of a free people.

I do dark [humor]. I like people who are silly and weird and people who are surprising and good at what they do.

Racist dermatologists think all black people have really bad skin.

Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.

Recognise excellence. Celebrate weirdness and innovation. Oddballs should be cherished, if they can do something other people can't do.

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.

When people refer to me as a 'regular' girl...it's code word for 'fat' in Hollywood....But...my body has chosen its shape. I'd rather be strong than skinny.

I am quite surprised, that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about The Miracle Worker. We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet.

Well, I'm playing for the fans so whenever they come and ask for autographs I always try to give it to everybody because I'm out there for the people.

I'm like the most expensive, exotic item on a gourmet menu. People can wonder about the sensuous delights of the dish, but they can't afford such an expensive luxury

People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude.

Telling my story is to empower people to believe in their own power. We have so much power individually.

I think people are universal.

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.

I believe in the value of paranoia. Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing left.

There are no hopeless situations, sweetheart, only people who have grown hopeless about them. You still have choices you can make.

I don't really have studios. I wander around - around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.

For better or worse, a lot of people's images are based on the first things that are written about them. You can't control what people write about you, so - good or bad - I have never lost sleep about it.

It is up to the leader to create a healthy environment where people are not afraid to fail. Mistakes should be seen as an integral part of the organizational process. They are a normal part of striving for excellence.

If I can keep losing myself - and finding parts of myself - in other people's writing and direction, then that's all I can really ask for. That's all I want, to keep losing myself.

I just like to make people laugh.

It's hard to explain how much one can love writing. If people knew how happy it can make you, we would all be writing all the time. It's the greatest secret of the world.

I want to hear raucous music, to see faces, to brush against bodies, to drink fiery Benedictine. Beautiful women and handsome men arouse fierce desires in me. I want to dance. I want drugs. I want to know perverse people, to be intimate with them. I never look at naive faces. I want to bite into life, and to be torn by it.