#for the people

My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#because #exception #for the people #free #friends

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#earth #for the people #government #people #perish

Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#everybody #experiments #for the people #go #means

But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there. ↗

— Roger McGuinn

#beatles #developed #down #folk #folk songs

This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

#for the people #great #hunger #misery #people

It's one thing for the people in the industry to know who you are, because they've heard about you earlier. I have friends calling me from the Christian bookstore because there's a poster on the wall. It's just weird. ↗

— Stacie Orrico

#because #bookstore #calling #christian #earlier

I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#about #divorce #express #family #for the people

My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never forgotten that. ↗

— Sam Raimi

#dress #father #for the people #forgotten #i

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#disagree #for the people #friends #heaven #hell

I think that Hiphop should be a pulpit for the people. ↗

— Slick Rick

#hiphop #i #i think #people #pulpit