“We want Ollie to go to all the different events and see Republicans and see Bernie Sanders and just kind of experience it and be able to make up his own mind for what he wants, none of his friends know anything about politics. Granted, they're only 9, they don't vote for a while. They just completely don't understand why are all these people coming to New Hampshire, why this is so important.”
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People Quotes — page 631 of 5018
“It seems, after all that there are no nonpeculiar people.”
“Marriage to me means unity, it means strength because I believe that both people can be stronger in their calling because of each other.”
“There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.”
“It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist.”
“You know how some people, when they're together, they somehow make you feel more hopeful? Make you feel like the world is not the insane place it really is?”
“I stay fat because it just wouldn't be fair to all the thin people if I were this good-looking, intelligent, funny, and thin. It's a public service really.”
“People are so conditioned to take sides that a balanced analysis looks to them like hatred.”
“Mockery is an important social tool for squelching stupidity. I’ve never seen anyone change his mind because of the power of a superior argument or the acquisition of new facts. But I’ve seen plenty of people change behavior to avoid being mocked.”
“You can change only what people know, not what they do.”
“I would like to believe that most people don't get married anticipating divorce.”
“Lay down true principles and adhere to them inflexibly. Do not be frightened into their surrender by the alarms of the timid, or the croakings of wealth against the ascendency of the people.”
“The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.”
“I know nothing more important to inculcate into the minds of young people than the wisdom, the honor, and the blessed comfort of living within their income.”
“The purse of the people is the real seat of sensibility. Let it be drawn upon largely, and they will then listen to truths which could not excite them through any other organ.”
“People are in a hurry to magnify themselves by imitating what is popular- and too lazy to think of anything better.”
“Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.”
“I believe that it is important for the artist, painter, poet, dancer, etc. to keep in mind that it is the art that drives the art world and not the other way around. Artists and other people of intelligence have the power to bring deeper content to our culture.”
“I always point people to the article '1,000 True Fans' by Kevin Kelly. If you choose your thousand ideal customers or readers properly and find the single author blog that targets that audience, you never have to do any more marketing. You're done. That is a lesson that very few product developers and marketers have learned, and it's unfortunate.”
“Most people are good at a handful of things and utterly miserable at most.”