I want to be the kind of elected official who not only pays attention but who acts on behalf of people - just average people. Fancy lobbyists get to tell their story, but the average person doesn't.
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Related The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists. ERIC SCHMIDT Your average person in Illinois doesn't really even know what workers' comp is. The average ... BRUCE RAUNER The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about... OPRAH WINFREY Ben Hopkins is a very nervous, neurotic kind of person who is afraid of not being liked by people al... BEN HOPKINS I'm not a go-in-for-the-kill kind of interviewer. It's a great thing to me, that kind of int... IRA GLASS I'd like to say it is only average people who revel in the mistakes of others. SIBEL KEKILLI For the first time ever, overweight people outnumber average people in America. Doesn't that mak... JAY LENO There are people who tell you to shut up because you're just a celebrity, but pundits, talking h... KEVIN BACON I will never be an insider. I want to be the champion of people who don't have insiders and lobb... PAT QUINN I'm appealing to people who want something different, but the world, on the whole, doesn't r... FKA TWIGS There's an inordinate amount of attention put on actors. Some people want to make their lives pu... GRACE PARK Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy brea... BARACK OBAMA I think it's just funny, the things that come out of people's mouths, whether it's a pol... JESSE WATTERS Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT I want people who have received a diagnosis of Hepatitis C to know that they didn't just receive... MELODY BEATTIE Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irr... FRAN LEBOWITZ Average people get to school late; they're average. They barely do their school work. ERIC D. THOMAS Listen to other people tell their story, but don't believe them. You know that it's just a s... DON MIGUEL RUIZ Office holders are a self-selected group; you don't get elected if you don't put your name o... JOHN SUNUNU I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody wh... MALCOLM X It doesn't matter who they put in front of me, I just want people to remember me. RAFAEL DOS ANJOS I can't tell if I want to be a rapper who's funny because I kind of enjoy just doing really ... AWKWAFINA Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people. KIN HUBBARD There are people, radio talk show hosts, those kind of people, it's their job to only have one o... DANNY BONADUCE I would love to see churches start using their Web sites to present video profiles of people within ... FRANK JOHNSON People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the... YUVRAJ SINGH If you are doing what everyone else is doing, you are doing something wrong. Why? Because most peopl... ANDY ANDREWS I think if you lower the limits on money it would encourage our elected officials to get into their ... RUFUS JONES The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that'... DOROTHEA LANGE Many people may be heartbroken, but not enough to take action. CRAIG GROESCHEL I think - you know, I want to intimidate people when I'm on the field. I want people to be scare... CARLI LLOYD The kind of person who's going to stand on the red carpet and love the attention and have the bi... VICTORIA BECKHAM There is a similarity in the kinds of characters I gravitate to that goes back to my earliest years ... EUGENE LEVY When you're an actor or actress in this business, usually the natural progression is to direct, ... JAMIE FOXX People who like to do a lot of partying and going out and fancy dining - Moulton might not be to the... GARY HARRIS Decide be a success; decide to be great, decide to be above average, decide to do the very best of y... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After... BOB LILLY My fiancee's average size, and my son's average size, so I don't want to alter my whole ... MARTIN KLEBBA There are always going to be encounters that you kind of wish went differently. But the average fan ... CHESTER BENNINGTON If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, I want to come to your house and ha... DIANE ARBUS If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, ''I want to come to your house and ... DIANE ARBUS It's interesting because diversity doesn't just happen by garnishing your omelet with a litt... KELVIN YU [A politician is] a person skilled in the art of compromise. Usually an elected official who has com... DICK GREGORY The majority of people who get in the sport of gymnastics do not go to the Olympics or get a Divisio... DOMINIQUE DAWES I don't know why people feel that I am snooty. I am not a person who has ever given an interview... KAREENA KAPOOR KHAN The way the British 'Office' got away with being so dark was that it only had 13 episodes. T... JOHN KRASINSKI Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that ... SARAH KAY How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL That's really sad," Beth said softly, "To have no one left. R.J. SCOTT That's what happens in Hollywood. People are like, 'I want to hate you, because everyone els... EVANGELINE LILLY People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, bu... WILLIAM BENNET MUNRO People say, 'He doesn't want to be a spokesperson for the gay community.' I do, of cours... SAM SMITH I'll take photographs with kids. People who want to take photographs with me. People who like th... JOHNNY DEPP In golf, advice is not a big thing. If you don't have the ability, you won't get anywhere no... ANGEL CABRERA I don't want to be just an average guy. I want to do whatever possible to win a lot of games. I&... FELIX HERNANDEZ I'm such a believer in 'if you're beautiful on the inside it really shows on the outside... MEGAN PARK I just kind of went from being a standup, one-man band, to then kind of breezing back and working wi... MIKE BINDER I'm not saying I'm the only Jewish person who cares about Palestinian people, but unfortunat... JULIAN SCHNABEL I'm the least confident person in so many ways. But I believed that if somebody gave me the chance t... JOSS WHEDON People get comfort from music. They get joy from it and understanding from it, and most of all, the ... TODD RUNDGREN If people don't know who you are, they're not going to listen to your message. And not every... AARON SCHOCK I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock '... CARLOS SANTANA I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never bee... AL YANKOVIC Is it average Joes like ourselves who go to the ballot box and truly decide who are going to be the ... MATT BEVIN I was amazed at the quality of the letters we would get from average people, who would spend an enor... JEN COLBY Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive sto... CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE Wal-Mart hires average people but squeezes above average performance and results out of them. MICHAEL BERGDAHL He's not stupid enough. And he's not the kind of person who says 'I got two, but I'm sending you one... ROBERT MCDUFF Let him who walks in darkness and no light trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God PEOPLE OF CHRIST I think my iTunes is a kind of strange and embarrassing mix of show tunes and artists that I have no... ANNA KENDRICK The average person doesn't understand what a stem cell is. There's a lack of health literacy... RICHARD CARMONA Only after the last tree has been cut down,only after the last river has been poisoned,only after th... THE CREE PEOPLE I can think of the number of people who were like, 'I will never get a cellphone because I don... DENNIS CROWLEY The problem for us, as viewers, is that we want famous people who are passionate about the things th... BO BURNHAM We are really focused on the beauty enthusiast... but also, as you know, everybody has got a great p... MARY DILLON Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for a... WILLIAM RALPH INGE I imagine if you're one of those genius people working on AI, the desire to find out what's ... EMILY BERRINGTON Lazy doesn't exist. Lazy is a symptom of something else. The person who can't get up off the... JILLIAN MICHAELS We collect things not just for their monetary value, but also because they tell the story of who we ... LOUISA JAGGAR I want everybody to succeed. It's just part of who I am. I probably do that with my kids tenfold... LISA RINNA Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their ow... HARRY BROWNE Some of these actresses or public personas who are very public about their disciplined diets, more p... AMY ADAMS I find more of an authenticity in people who are a little strange - so I really like characters who ... MISSI PYLE I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person w... ERYKAH BADU To be a good director, you have to spend a lot of time on actual sets, but today, there's a lot ... C. THOMAS HOWELL Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT With comics, you've got to develop some kind of shorthand. You can't make every drawing look... ROBERT CRUMB I have learned that some of the nicest people you’ll ever meet are those who have suffered a traum... SASHA AZEVEDO I'm not on Twitter or Facebook. I've never been interested in being on any of them. I don... HANNAH WARE People who hardly ever cook at all, suddenly at the holidays, feel like it's their responsibilit... TED ALLEN I knew that because of who I am, and the situation I'm in, that I'd attract more critics tha... LISA MARIE PRESLEY I'm the kind of person who just can't wait to get on a train and not know where I'm goin... SUMMER ALTICE I know plenty of people in China who don't like what their government does to the Falun Gong, bu... REBECCA MACKINNON I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help t... ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS Some people try to tell you the things you want in life are out of your grasp, while others lift you... KATIE KACVINSKY I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For peo... KEVIN COSTNER People who start habitually exercising tend on average to eat better. They also tend to use their cr... CHARLES DUHIGG Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept wh... ABBAS KIAROSTAMI I don't really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person... CHANCE THE RAPPER
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