What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else. — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
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I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church. — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
At this moment, I don't think people would back the old-fashioned Marxist-Leninist ideas of FARC. But I do hope that the rebels… — Juan Manuel Santos Copy Share Image
There've been times on tour when people have said to us, 'Yeah, your band is really simple.' But it's really not. — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
I am happy to see that, increasingly, people care about farm workers. There is tremendous interest in where and how our food… — Dolores Huerta Copy Share Image
People often pretend to be happy simply because smiling tends to be easier than explaining to others why they're upset. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think.… — Julie Walters Copy Share Image
The real people nation have for centuries had the practice at birth of speaking the same first phrase to all newborns. Each… — Marlo Morgan Copy Share Image
Artists have been used over and over again since the early 1980s as the legitimizers of a neighborhood in New York. And… — Sharon Zukin Copy Share Image
I ain't the first on the list that people are sending scripts to. I'm very lucky. I've managed to put myself in… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
It is the first time since 1993 that Russians have come out into the streets without an explicit permission from the government… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Then I tell my own story. The two things that people really need to transform is language to understand their experience and… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
If you've ever had to recall your past in some way and you open a drawer of old photographs that your parents… — Gail Zappa Copy Share Image
Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that's part… — Adam Duritz Copy Share Image
I really hate people that spoil stuff by putting scripts online. I don't mind so much people that do movie spoilers when… — Craig Mazin Copy Share Image
Living with eight other people teaches you what to give up and what to take from others, and you have to appreciate… — Nayeon Copy Share Image
You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others?… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
Get over jet-lag quickly. I think a lot of people waste the first few days sleeping in the wrong time zone. Sometimes… — Jane Seymour Copy Share Image
You know that's why people don't like unlikeable characters. It's not that they're not interesting. Everybody knows the most interesting character in… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
I grew to love Baltimore during my three years there. I'm grateful to the people who allowed us to tell the stories… — Jamie Hector Copy Share Image
People are already living subsistence lives. Anything that happens that might impact their ability to survive is almost a death notice. — Linda Thomas-Greenfield Copy Share Image
A balanced diet may be the best medicine. I was eating too much good eats. But people consider that part of your… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
Living in the U.K., there is no way to know whether anyone in India likes my music, but I was surprised to… — Imogen Heap Copy Share Image
When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media. — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
When I made 'Sleepwalk with Me,' many people asked me if was a novelty thing, a one-off. But this is the goal,… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
One of the ways to be happy, to be truly happy, is to contribute to a cause that is greater than yourself.… — Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
I like the connection with fans and people who have been supportive of me. And I love the idea of real feedback… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Nobody would have me in their laboratory for five minutes. I couldn't cut up a frog, and I certainly couldn't perform surgery.… — Mary Lasker Copy Share Image
I think, you know, a lot of the business of comedy is taking your personal experiences and making them relatable to other… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
You know, there are only about 10 people in the United States that have ever argued 25 cases before the Supreme Court,… — Rod Parsley Copy Share Image
When I countered that Archie Bunker didn't have to put down a race of people to say that, he replied, 'and you're… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
War destroys people's souls. Most people focus on physical injuries, but the invisible injuries can take a lifetime to heal and affects… — Emmanuel Jal Copy Share Image
I don't feel that things need make their appeal exclusively to one demographic. I don't feel that there is truly great art… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
It is truly a triumph of rhetoric over reality when people can believe that going into politics is 'public service,' but that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan's era can be defined, number one in most people's minds, by the Cold War and by the end of it… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
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