I don't watch that much TV, so I can't compare one show to another. When I watch television, I watch people talking to one another usually or a science show where they show me microbes, you know. Microbes actually communicate quite a bit, and so there's a lot of talking going on.
Barbra Streisand is without a doubt one of the most honest people I have ever known. There is no doubt in my mind that she will not be doing any more concerts. Of course, she still will be making records and starring and directing in movies.
Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.
But you base everything on people you know.
To me, comedy is a great occupation because I don't really worry that much about what other people think of me.
Gay people are born everyday. You will never legislate that away.
People make such a big deal about how people in bands look, especially if you're a girl.
God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people.
There are lots of women and lots of men in the business that the powers that be decide are the right people and they'll stand with them for quite a long time.
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
People always grow and mature.
People ask, like, 'How are you going to incorporate what you do onstage into everything else?' I'm not too worried about that. Whether it's theater or a TV show idea, or an animated thing or, I don't know, an animated screensaver. I really just want to keep creating things. And I've always been able to do that.
My work more than didn't fit in. It crossed willy-nilly the boundaries that people had spent their lives building up. It hits some 30 subfields of biology, even geology.
People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.
The irony is that the more specific you are in the portrayal of character, the more like other people you are. In the same way, the more you think about how alone you are in this life, you realise how much a brother and sister everyone else is.
We had teachers, we had high school principals, we had people teaching in colleges and university in Tuskegee, Alabama. But they were told they failed the so-called literacy test.
For a country to be looted, its people's voice must be silenced.
He worked for the day when all people would be clothed in dignity.
I wish I had Wonder Woman's magic lasso like her to make people tell the truth.
If you can't move and talk to people that you see, it's not really my scene.
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
People speculate or think what they want to think, but it's been really fun for me to kind of explore what I want to explore.
The biggest thing that I hope people take away when they listen to my music is that they feel that there is an outlet being presented that allows them to be more authentic and for them to be more honest in their own lives.
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other people, and my writing sucked. Now I have a laptop; I can do the most tedious part of my job in a public place.
Personally, I find looking at all of the supporting materials and bring it all back to me - the people I worked with, the experience of working on a project - makes it come alive again. So, I try to put those experiences into my commentary for the viewers.
I am not interested when people refer to a quarter or this year because the way I look at a country is what are its prospects over the next 20-30 years, and India's are good.
I have built a moat around myself, along with ways over that moat so that people can ask questions.
People cannot be free unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their interests to guarantee the freedom of others. The price of democracy is the ongoing pursuit of the common good by all of the people.
For most people, their home is their most valuable asset. Yet most of us don't take care of it.
I had spent many years before I was 31 hearing people tell me, Oh Man, you're so funny, you need to be in television. But that and a quarter won't get you on a bus.
If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
If you're asking me to compare myself to other people, I don't really know what other people are like.
I don't think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that's what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
It's not an Israeli model, it's a TSA, screwed-up model. It should actually be the person who's looking at the ticket and talking to the individual. Instead, they've hired people to stand around and observe, which is a bastardization of what should be done.
A lot of people want to die for a lot of reasons.
