Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.
People want to classify and say, 'OK, this is a gangster film.' 'This is a Western.' 'This is a... ' You know? It's easy to classify and it makes people feel comfortable, but it doesn't matter, it doesn't really matter.
If you stand for something you will have people for you and people against you. But if you stand for nothing you will have nobody for you and nobody against you.
I just think the word interview, although it is the view between two people exchanged, became a sort of cliche. You ask questions and the other one answers.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
There's some people that obviously abuse social networking or whatever, but I think it's a fantastic idea. I've never had any bad encounters with any of it.
I have known healthy, wealthy people who were depressed, and people with critical illnesses who could honestly attest to joy.
People who attend support groups who have been diagnosed with a life-challenging illness live on average twice as long after diagnosis as people who don't.
There's a way that white people and black people spoke in the '70s that is nothing like how they speak now. They spoke from a soul, actually. There's a singsongy way of walking and talking that's just different now.
The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.
Never test good people because they are like diamonds. when you hit them, they will not break but they will only slip away from your life
This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.
I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
People have the right to defend their country from foreign occupiers, and people have the right to defend their country from invaders who are destroying their country.
I tend to move between turtlenecks and shirts and ties. I don't really have a uniform in the sense that some people might.
I will continue to find ways to help poor people find a job, get a job, and learn someday to own the job.
Nothing's ever the same," she said. Be it a second later or a hundred years. It's always churning and roiling. And people change as much as oceans.
It always starts with people's disbelieve in other, because of their own shortage in visualising. When success had followed the one with the vision about, envy will haunt the people, without.
I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.
And I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.
There isn't a political price to be paid yet for doing nothing. People need to get upset with President Bush. People need to get upset with their Congressmen.
