I can't control how high my song goes on the charts, you know what I mean. I mean, I can sway it a little bit by working as hard as I can, hopefully being a decent person and giving good interviews and working hard on the road and being nice to peopl...
I just find the people I want to work with and put it all together, and it's a lot of hard work, and all kinds of catastrophes happen, but I don't really get too much resistance. But when you make a movie, it seems like there's nothing but resistance...
When I tell people I work to stop hazing in high schools I am almost always met with shocked expressions. 'High school? Really? I thought that was something that only arrogant frat guys do in college.' But it's true - as long as I have worked on prev...
Some people are busy working on their pose instead of their purpose.
It's not always thankless. Let's face it - it's not always thankless. I've gotten a lot of really great recognition and I've worked with amazing people.
The best part of my life is I've been hired to work for the people of the state of Maine, and I'm very humble and very proud.
I'm so jealous of people who have crushes on people they go to school with or work with. That's such a blessing. You actually get to see them all the time and spend time with them.
I don't want people poking around in my private stuff. They've no business in it. My work is what I give to people, that's my job, and that's where it stops.
If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew.
My theory of change is that there are already millions of people working day in and day out on the ground to deliver on promises on global change. We need to strengthen those institutions and help those people in the field.
I now, more and more, appreciate when I'm in a group of good people and get to work in good movies and projects. I'm wildly grateful and appreciative.
I want to go working with good people on something that's good, because otherwise it's a big waste of time. I don't have that much time.
George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I've ever known, but in spite of that fame, he was such a nice and friendly guy.
I have to just worry about my own opinion and the opinions of the people I'm working with and people who are close to me.
A lot of artists are much more concerned about how their work is used and how it's disseminated. That, to artists, is as important as the money, for some people.
I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about.
I worked in information technology and academia for a long time and met many people who were better with things and ideas than with people.
Bureaucrats and Politicians are different people, work of Bureaucrats makes us hate Politicians.
Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate.
People who work in financial services don't have one shred of concern about the well-being of the people they serve. They're only interested in themselves.
In the view of some people, you can only believe in civil rights if you work as a civil rights lawyer. I just don't buy that.
