#people

Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together. ↗

— Jewel

#always #big #business #career #could

To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons. ↗

— Ma Jian

#basic #become #beings #expression #freedom

Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room. If you just want to look up ways to screw people up, there it is, and you're justified because God told you to. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#because #bible #every #god #hotel

First, we must stop issuing drivers' licenses to people in our country illegally. Providing them with forms of government identification makes a mockery of our laws and undermines national security efforts. ↗

— Bobby Jindal

#drivers #efforts #first #forms #government

I'd like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don't have misconceptions - they understand. I believe that. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#feel #films #i #i believe #i believe that

Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#age #any #anybody #book #highly

Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy. ↗

— Grace Jones

#fantasy #illusion #like #look #models

I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#alone #anyway #because #being #being alone

You never write down to the people - you write the best you can with the hope that someone else will feel the same way. ↗

— William Kraft

#down #else #feel #hope #never

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#because #carry #citizens #criminals #decent