“Co-operation, like other difficult things, can be learned only by practice: and to be capable of it in great things, a people must be gradually trained to it in small. Now the whole course of advancing civilization is a series of such training.”
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“People make great films. I just don't have the eyes to watch them.”
“You do the work and you want people to see it; but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately, I don't, I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me, when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way.”
“I think Alice [Cooper] probably, on some level, recognized that good old self-destructive streak that does happen in some people's lives. So, though I wasn't there with Alice and the Vampires, but I'd give anything in the world to have been, I had my own version, I suppose, a little later.”
“People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less.”
“Democracy is welcoming people from other lands, and giving them something to hold onto. Usually a mop or a leaf blower.”
“I'm an entertainer, not a commentator. If you're a comedian your job is to make people laugh.”
“The wrong sort of people are always in power because they would not be in power if they were not the wrong sort of people.”
“It turns out that knowing how loved we are by God makes all the difference in the kind of people we will become.”
“Whence proceeds this weight we lay On what detracting people say? Their utmost malice cannot make Your head, or tooth, or finger ache; Nor spoil your shapes, distort your face, Or put one feature out of place.”
“I, for one, can't wait for this election to be over, because the curse of Donald Trump in a satirical comedy way is that, one, he's such a large character; it's hard to satirize at times. Two, he's sucking all the air out of every room he walks into so every attempt leads to covering only him. You can't turn a corner in New York City without people talking about Donald Trump, without talking about the same things about Donald Trump.”
“What teenagers are ready to laugh at is the misery of other people.”
“When people get together, we are capable of the most beautiful, amazing things. But we are also capable of genocide.”
“Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.”
“Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives.”
“I'm not a politician. I'm not a policy wonk. I was a political reporter, but that's not really what turns me on. What turns me on is how people perceive the issue and how people see people like me.”
“Independent of politics, the changing narrative on immigration is directly correlated to the fact that we have new technologies that are allowing people to talk to each other and tell their own stories and organize themselves.”
“How much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of Creation? What in the world was running through that warped, evil, scatological mind of His when He robbed old people of the power to control their bowel movements?”
“When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.”
“The people who cast the votes decide nothing; the people who count the votes decide everything.”