In the military, they give medals for people who are willing to sacrifice themselves so that others may survive. In business, we give bonuses to people who sacrifice others.
The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.
There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it.
I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
We had a huge audience, we sold truckloads of albums. If we do something that's cool, people will listen to it. If we don't, we would be selling people short.
While GeoCities isn't cool, it isn't a bad thing. It did a great thing - enabled great people to instantly publish to the Web.
Black and awkward is the worst, because black people are stereotyped as being anything but awkward in mainstream media... Black people are always portrayed to be cool or overly dramatic, anything but awkward.
We all have these notions of cool that come about at different points in our lives, and it's interesting in how it evolves or doesn't evolve in different people.
People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?
Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.
To establish personal relationships with the people you work with is stupid, because you never know when the winds will change. I try not to get too close to people.
If critics of 'readable fiction' want literature to change the ways people dream, they need first to come down from the mountain and speak to the people.
Our decade of change has unleashed the ingenuity, creativity, and character of the most extraordinary people in the world - the people of this state, who come from every corner of the globe.
There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to become depressed. These techniques are called cognitive behavioral therapy.
I think sometimes people are scared to change. Sometimes people are scared to do something different, especially if they've been successful at something.
In this century of hyper-postmodern ideals, with the digital future, we're segmented into different people, places, and things in a constant state of change.
To me, that's the role of government: not to give people a hand out, but a hand up... giving people the tools to pave their own way to success.
It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.
The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated.
Thanks to President Barack Obama, under the Affordable Care Act, millions more people will be eligible for health insurance, including many people with HIV.
When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home.
