Politics doesn’t mean playing deceitful and trickery games against the people, it means playing resourceful and organized games for the people.
Statements of ordinary people are ignored like poor freebies, statements of great people are accepted like profound philosophy.
Check the history, more people died for freedom than love, people need freedom before they need love.
People ask, how can a person abuse a child? I ask, how can so many 'good' people not do anything about it?
What people are tired of, the people who agree with me, what they're tired of is listening to that sound, the sound of the people who've given up.
I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
There are only two kinds of people in this world, Mr. Sallinger: people who rise above that suffering and people who let it define them." (The Ables)
Helping people and putting smiles on their faces is a great, great thing. God only knows why more people don't do it more often.
The people don't run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help.
I want to be surprised by what people do, I don't want to work with people who need to be told what to do. I want people to show me what they've got.
When you're talking about people like Shonda Rhimes, Vince Gilligan or Beau Willimon, you're talking to people who are notable and celebrities in their own right. People want to know how their brains work.
Dublin people think they are the center of the world and the center of Ireland. And they don't realize that people have to leave Ireland to get work, and they look down on people who do.
There's really not much that people can pick on me for my work, so obviously they find other reasons to write something bad about me. I mean, people enjoy reading bad stuff about people.
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