This is our bottom line, and the will of 1.25 billion Chinese people.
If your work doesn't speak to people, it's beyond comprehension and risible, but if people engage with it, you become tarred with the brush of populism.
In a banana republic, one might slip on a banana peel but things do work - now and then for the people, albeit inefficiently and unreliably.
Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.
I know that some people work differently, but I have to work from the inside out. It doesn't matter how big the character is, there has to be a truthful core.
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with capital ought not to.
The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.
A lot of people say this honor validates my career, but I didn't work hard for validation.
I'm only stopped by people in uniform, whether it's customs people, janitors, or the FBI - they all watch 'The Wire.' Sadly, beautiful, glamorous women don't know anything about it.
There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That's their problem. It's not mine.
Women risked their lives for the right to vote. When I hear people say, 'Oh, I'm not gonna vote,' I just wanna tear their heart out.
People know Detroit for the cars, but the suburban areas of the city are really beautiful. It's much more inhabitable than people think. Many believe it's like Berlin at the end of World War II.
The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.
The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people.
Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.
There is no indication that any church official suggested or supported the emperor's action against gay people. On the contrary, the only persons known by name to have been punished for homosexual acts were prominent bishops.
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