“A billion people died on the news tonight.”
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People Quotes — page 993 of 5018
“Sometimes I'll write a song. When I've gone through something really hard in my life, sometimes it's other people's music. Other times it's actually writing the songs and getting out of mind and into the song.”
“The songs themselves sometimes have messages and people can read into them different ways, but I try to use concerts as a way to gather people and then have information there. I think that's important to find that balance, a way to be able to turn people on to things at the shows, but also just have it be an entertainment experience for people who just want to hear music and dance and don't want the extra stuff.”
“I love playing my music and I love sharing the music with people. But at the same time, it is pretty taxing.”
“To be part of a community feels really good - to be among people who have similar feelings and want to share thoughts. It's a nice feeling.”
“It's such a shame that people are so much more worried about being right than being decent.”
“It's time for the [Confederate] Flag to come down, because it just doesn't represent who we are as a people, as Americans anymore.”
“I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren't people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.”
“Why did I allow myself to be bored ever in the past and to compensate for it got high or drunk or rages or all the tricks people have because they want anything but serene understanding of just what there is, which is after all so much.”
“Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift. . . . The net result of Naked Lunch will be to make people shudder at their own lies, will be to make them open up and be straight with one another. Swift and Rabelais and Sterne accomplished a step in that direction, and Burroughs another.”
“Go moan for man. It's the pathos of people that gets us down, all the lovers in this dream.”
“I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.”
“I don't waste time in flowery small talk, as people do in India.”
“I want to succeed. And I want to succeed in the best way possible, without caring whether people call my actions leftist or rightist.”
“At first people asked us, 'Can you do it?' And we kept silent because we didn't believe in ourselves, we didn't believe that we could do things. Today people no longer say to us, 'Can you?' They say, 'When can you?' Because the Indians finally believe in themselves, they believe they can do things.”
“How is it possible for people in the modern world to go on killing each other for religion? The problems we should be concerned with nowadays are quite different!”
“I can't take it seriously when people get excited and scream that religion is in danger, and similar stupidities.”
“No one wanted that marriage, no one. Even Mahatma Gandhi wasn't happy about it. As for my father...it's not true that he opposed it, as people say, but he wasn't eager for it. I suppose because the fathers of only daughters would prefer to see them get married as late as possible.”
“The word 'when' is so important for a people, for an individual! If an individual thinks he won't do it, he'll never do it. Even if he's highly intelligent, even if he has countless talents.”
“In India people can't stomach this attitude of mine, and when I say, 'Hurry up, let's get to the point,' they feel hurt.”