Quotes on People

American government is like a train on a track. You have the people on the left shouting; you have the people on the right. But the train's on track. They just keep ploughing ahead.

You need a community to succeed. In the back of every book is an acknowledgments page full of all the people it took to get that writer to the book you're holding.

There's nothing like that feeling of having just written a song that you know is 'the song,' and you know it's really great, and you can't wait to share it with people; you can't wait to record it.

People striving, being knocked down and coming back... this is what builds character in a man.

The only way I could get comfortable around people was to make them laugh. I was an obedient girl, and humor was my one form of rebellion. I used comedy to deflect. Like, 'Hey, check out my zit!' - you know, making fun of yourself before someone else has a chance to.

Getting out to protest, this is something real and, I would say, something patriotic. Part of the new authoritarianism is to get people to prefer fiction and inaction to reality and action.

What I learned at LucasArts was, you don't make your bets on ideas: ideas are cheap. You make your bets on people.

Part of the challenge of being a black Republican anywhere is that you start off with people walking in with chips on their shoulder trying to figure out what is wrong with you.

My original business model - I actually wrote this down - was 'interesting work for interesting people.'

Stories have a special way of putting us inside the people, inside the boots of the soldiers. You're absorbed in a way a documentary or nonfiction can't do for you.

I think time management as a label encourages people to view each 24-hour period as a slot in which they should pack as much as possible.

Our values are that we do think that people have a right to privacy. And that our customers are not our products.

You have to find the intersection of doing something you're passionate about and that, at the same time, is in the service of other people. I would argue if you don't find that intersection, you're not going to be very happy.

What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.

It's amazing how quickly people on the internet can pick something up, but it's also amazing how quickly they can drop it.

It's interesting that people throughout the existence of the web have been concerned about monopolies.

That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.

It is clear to me that people often want incompatible things. They want danger and excitement on the one hand, and safety and security on the other, and often simultaneously. Contradictory desires mean that life can never be wholly satisfying or without frustration.

What many economists fail to understand is that poor people are no less concerned about improving their lot and that of their children than rich people are.

When you're in a movie with an audience, you can feel where a film is dragging. People start to move. They fidget. You need that perspective. To give it a cold eye.

I'm making music for the people. If y'all love the music, y'all gonna buy the music.