I thought I was an odd person, and since my hometown had only about 70,000 people in it, I knew I was going to have to leave there and go out and find other odd people.
Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been living in a state of terror in this country for more than 400 years.
I never thought that I would sell to young people, but now girls who are 14 and 15 buy my shoes.
Whenever people say they didn't like the main character of a book, they mean they didn't like the book. The main character has to be a friend? I don't get that.
We aren't using Guantanamo Bay anymore to take additional terrorists. That was the perfect facility to be able to use to extract information from people to keep the American people safe.
I feel like people have more in common than the news reports. People getting along doesn't sell very well in the news. I find that to be deeply depressing.
I'm not really sure what people's preconceived notions are. I don't look at the gossip websites - it's unhealthy and I think it's a large part of what drives people in L.A. crazy.
I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in children because they are people.
i had a dream that there were these huge indoor swimming pools called 'lobbies' that poor people used to do mass amounts of laundry
I do feel pressure. I have always been able to surprise people because they didn't know to expect anything from me. And now people are starting to have expectations.
Cliched characters are cliches because they're people being described by people who are on the outside. If you take two sentences from anybody and reduce them to just that, that's what you're going to get.
Everybody is different. Some people like to share more. I just wouldn't want to spoil someone's opinion of me by them knowing me as a person instead of an artist.
We will take a few moments and make fun of religious people, and we do this in love. No, we do, because we love to make fun of religious people.
People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.
Johnny Cash was a rebel, not only just in the musical sense, but he was somebody who was for the people, and an advocate for labor, for workers, for prisoners, people who have been trapped by the criminal justice system.
My God, these Feeling types! ... Sensitive people are just tyrannical people - everybody else has to adapt to them.
I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.
My capacity for humour may have come largely from my father - he liked to entertain people, make people laugh.
The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others.
Jean Paul Sartre says that ‘Hell is other people!’ In the name of completing this sentence we must also say this: ‘Heaven is other people too!
Most of the time it is a good job and a good honour to fight against people's values, because most of the time people's values are irrational and absurd!
