“Sometimes in peacekeeping operations you show force in order not to use force - people realise that there's a pushback and there's a solid force there that's not going to be pushed around, that sometimes helps.”
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“People respect us, they love us and they're entertained by us, so it's like when you trust somebody on that level, it's a lot easier to speak some real knowledge into their minds.”
“I really embrace things that I think people who like music can relate to, they grew up with the same stuff and know the same references so when they hear it being used as a metaphor to something else they'll be like that's unique, or funny or something that's relatable to me.”
“It's easy to choose doing what you love when there are people out there supporting you.”
“The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.”
“Some languages are musical in themselves, so that it is pleasant to hear any one read or converse in them, even though we do not understand a word that we hear.... Others are full of growling, snarling, hissing sounds, as though wild beasts and serpents had first taught the people to speak.”
“Dogs are very, very pleasant with people that they're connected to.”
“Look, I'm not a perfect person. I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. I wear suits that are cheap. But I say what I think and I believe what I say, and I'm willing to say things that are not popular but ordinary people know are right.”
“That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do.”
“I think most people... would be glad to pay the same taxes they paid when Bill Clinton was president, if only they could have the same economy they had when Bill Clinton was president.”
“The biggest communities in which young people now reside are online communities.”
“I want our pie to grow all the people, but if some other guy's pie is growing a little faster, that's terrific.”
“I mean people -- people don't get -- they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed and you can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is, and he's doing these things, you know, and he's getting rich, and your spouse is getting unhappy with you because you aren't doing -- pretty soon you start doing it. And so you get what I call the natural progression, the three Is. The innovators, the imitators, and the idiots.”
“The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.”
“Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages.”
“Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.”
“I really miss being able to blend in with people.”
“People are coming to shows on the strength of one song. I guess that's the way it goes.”
“I suppose there are a lot of people who'd kill to have my career, but I still feel like a fan.”
“If people insist on living as if there's no tomorrow, there really won't be one.”