Quotes on People

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day.

Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away.

They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy.

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

I laugh all the time - at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don't laugh onstage because then it's serious business.

I feel lucky that I can have people laugh solidly for a whole hour by just saying what I think and getting paid for it.

Young people need models, not critics.

People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays; it's one exclamation point to another.

My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.

When people say, you know, 'Good teacher,' 'Prophet,' 'Really nice guy'... this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you're left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that's odd, but I think it's odd if artists aren't interested in the world around them. I'm always chasing that.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're dealing with here.

My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can.

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.