“[ Vietnam War] brought the people together and made the '60s like they were. The youth were very unified against the status quo - against the old line and the new old line. It's the same exact thing today.”
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People Quotes — page 1008 of 5018
“I want to be a reflection of what's going on and let people draw their own conclusions.”
“I trust people. So I make my music for people not for candidates.”
“I think people, unfortunately, do live in constant fear. I think the government - and people in general - create scenarios people fear, because ultimately through fear you can control people. I wish we could live in a world where there would be no fear, but it's a driving force in many decisions people make these days, whether it's personal, economic, or even job-related. A lot of people stay out of fear in a job they hate.”
“If there is one thing more difficult than submitting oneself to a regime it is refraining from imposing it on other people.”
“No doubt very few people understand the purely subjective nature of the phenomenon that we call love, or how it creates, so to speak, a supplementary person, distinct from the person whom the world knows by the same name, a person most of whose constituent elements are derived from ourselves.”
“So long as I know what's boiling in my pot I don't bother my head about what's in other people's.”
“And indeed when we are no longer in love with women whom we meet after many years, is there not the abyss of death between them and ourselves, just as much as if they were no longer of this world, since the fact that we are no longer in love makes the people that they were or the person that we were then as good as dead?”
“Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.”
“Unkind people imagine themselves to be inflicting pain on someone equally unkind.”
“We ought at least, from prudence, never to speak of ourselves, because that is a subject on which we may be sure that other people's views are never in accordance with our own.”
“People who laugh so heartily at what they themselves have said, when it is not funny, dispense us accordingly, by taking upon themselves the responsibility for the mirth, from joining in it.”
“There are people whose faces assume an unaccustomed beauty and majesty the moment they cease to look out of their eyes.”
“No one knew what Rococode was "supposed" to sound like. Now we have a sound and we have a good idea of what we want to create and the type of songs we want to present to people. I think it's really exciting, actually.”
“I think there's a lot more to pop than just sugarcoated indie pop. Maybe to me it's something that's accessible, catchy, something people can remember.”
“There's always that one guy that you will always go back to. Even though you date other people in between, you are always in the back of your mind hoping to run into that guy.”
“So why don't you tell him you're sorry?" Gaby suggested. "Uh... because he probably never wants to speak to me again?" "How do you know? Do you have a fifth sense too?" Scarlett sighed. "No. And I think that's sixth sense." "No, I don't see dead people. It's different.”
“It's hard to tell people who they should hang out with and who they shouldn't, especially if they aren't ready to hear that. You have to let your friends make their own mistakes sometimes. You can't protect them from everything, or else they'll never learn”
“I don't think it's about trusting people, it's about knowing who to trust.”
“People are just obsessed with other people's lives. I don't know whether it's kind of a way to escape their own, or something to follow I really couldn't tell you.”