#people

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#best #court #ear #fool #foolish

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#become #between #big #big business #business

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#communicated #complex #considerable #distant #distortion

When it began I wrote this passionate letter to people I knew, studio members, of course, and other people with whom we have worked over the years and I said come and teach our students. ↗

— James Lipton

#come #course #i #knew #letter

I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't. ↗

— John Lithgow

#artist #believe #con #i #know

Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving. ↗

— John Lithgow

#care #considerate #kind #loving #other

A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes other people sick. ↗

— Mary Wilson Little

#first #girl #himself #his #makes

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you. ↗

— Mary Wilson Little

#bored #formerly #penalty #people #success

I really believe that's one of the many reasons that God had put me right in the middle of the Backstreet Boys. There are so many stars today that don't realize the impact they have on young people. Being a superstar is great, as long as you can be a positive role model. ↗

— Brian Littrell

#being #believe #god #great #had

If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly entitled him to do - his story would have carried very different meaning. If millions of part-black people had followed him into whiteness, then the N.A.A.C.P. would be in true crisis. ↗

— Eric Liu

#barack #barack obama #call #carried #certainly