In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.
Kevin HartCapitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
George Bernard ShawOdd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
Virginia WoolfI think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.
Taylor SwiftPainting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
Vincent Van GoghThere are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I’m not like that I never shoot blanks.
Richard M. NixonThe intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
Noam ChomskyBehind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
Theodore RooseveltIs science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.
Richard P. FeynmanWhen you feel like it’s too hard to obey God, remember that He will never tell you to do something without giving you the grace, power and ability to do it.
Joyce MeyerWhat is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
Friedrich NietzscheA friend in power is a friend lost.
Henry AdamsThere is a group of people that I think in good faith honestly believe that further curtailing our Second Amendment rights will enhance public safety. But there’s another group that just hates the Second Amendment.
John KennedyImmigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.
Thomas SowellPeople with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann HesseWords have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Edgar Allan PoePower over others is weakness disguised as strength.
Eckhart TolleI look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
Benjamin FranklinPeople, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.
Audrey HepburnI know of only one duty, and that is to love.
Albert CamusI like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
Jane GoodallFor a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
Thomas JeffersonPeople are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
PlatoI have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power.
Arthur C. ClarkeIt is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.
VoltaireEvery right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
John D. RockefellerI think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinThe reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
George EliotThe intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.
Terry PratchettDon’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
Abraham LincolnIn the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.
Noam ChomskyThe people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.
Benjamin DisraeliSmiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.
Billie EilishArbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
George WashingtonTime is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.
Margaret AtwoodMuch that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
Bertrand RussellOne should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Napoleon BonaparteI tend to believe that audiences are relatively well-balanced people.
Clint EastwoodThe United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.
Fidel CastroMusic has the power to inspire the world.
Bad BunnyThe only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
Franklin D. RooseveltPatriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Bertrand RussellPeople are terrified of me, and I want them to be.
Billie EilishThe new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.
Niccolo MachiavelliIt’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.
Stephen KingPower means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.
Beyonce KnowlesThat’s the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.
Barack ObamaTo understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.
Russell M. NelsonThe oppression of any people for opinion’s sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.
Hosea BallouI believe that a government has only one religion – India first. A government has only one holy book – our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion – towards nation.
Narendra ModiDo you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.
John F. KennedyPeople in tough times – it doesn’t mean they don’t have a great attitude.
Joel OsteenOn account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
Will RogersThe Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
George WashingtonTo be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaGratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
Jean-Jacques RousseauI’m entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they’re thinking and who they are and who’s hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what’s the story, really?
Alice WalkerThe legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied.
Abraham LincolnIn the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
Thomas CarlyleWhenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
Thomas Jefferson