“It's always nice to anticipate working in something that you know people will have an appetite for.”
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“If dresses would have qualified people, then whores would have ruled the world.”
“Give the people - confidence. Give the people - delight. Give the people - hope. Give the people - the best.”
“People respond faster to you on a text than an e-mail. Why is that? Why will they ignore an e-mail, but get back to a text?”
“The ratio of male to female characters in movies has been exactly the same since 1946. So if you've ever had people say, you know, "It's better now, it's all changed, it's all different," it's not, it hasn't. Not yet.”
“There are people here [in South Africa] who, whatever the debate is on a particular issue, their dominating idea is that at the end of the debate we must emerge stronger than we were before and closer to one another.”
“At the meeting I argued that the state had given us no alternative to violence. I said it was wrong and immoral to subject our people to armed attacks by the state without offering them some kind of alternative. I mentioned again that people on their own had taken up arms. Violence would begin whether we initiated it or not. Would it not be better to guide this violence ourselves, according to principles where we saved lives by attacking symbols of oppression, and not people? If we did not take the lead now, I said, we would soon be latecomers and followers to a movement we did not control.”
“Because other people are fools, must you be so too?”
“Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?”
“All wars are crusades, or we're made to feel they are. That's just what's so wicked about them. We're made to feel - not think - and people can't think when they feel.”
“In my life the most influential people are people who are sort of brought to me, as opposed to people I seek out.”
“It's funny - more people talk about my 'babe-dom' now than they did before I had a child. Whatever. I guess I'm a role model in hot pants now. That's cool!”
“It's impossible to expect polite behavior from people who've never witnessed it.”
“That studies have shown that more people are getting up earlier, they're getting their news earlier. They're getting less sleep, getting up at earlier hours.”
“We had such a wonderful set of circumstances in Wilmington. Yes, the four of us became famous literally overnight, but we were in a small town and we always knew when people were coming down. We always knew when to behave.”
“What is pronounced these days is staying on the Internet for hours. It's really about distraction. We are living in such an over stimulated culture. There's a nervous energy of always having to be focused out there. People have a hard time just being happy, settled, and content. We're not taught how to just be by ourselves, be present. We always want to change the channel in our minds because we don't like what's going on. It's uncomfortable.”
“I don't think anyone is more intrinsically holy. People experience God in many ways; and it seems to me that God does what the rest of us do: He chooses the means that best gets His message across.”
“I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.”
“It's no use to worry about what people think. I never do. I used to. But when I saw that they'd really rather think wrong than right I gave it up.”
“A statesman doesn't try to pull himself up by dragging someboy else down, and he doesn't try to convience people they're victims just so he can posture as their savior.”