People Quotes

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

I try not to put anything political on the forefront of what I'm trying to do creatively. At the same time, I do think it's wonderful when I hear people say that it's inspirational that I'm an Indian woman on camera. My life is very diverse, and my friends are a diverse group of people.

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.

This is a frightening statistic. More people vote in 'American Idol' than in any US election.

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

Too many people say to their brokers, I can't deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. That's the worst attitude you can have.

Sometimes, in public life, people ask inappropriate, off-the-wall kinds of questions, don't they?

I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving and then you do it.

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

It doesn't matter what people say about me, I weather the storm.

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

I love getting attention, just like a child loves it, and it's never worn off. So when people say, oh the book signings go on, why would I shoo away someone who's giving me attention? What part of standing in line for 10 hours to say how much they love you is bad to you?

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.

Some people say it's scarier to direct the people you work with; not me, I'm a team guy.

People protect what they love.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.