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- Nov 07, 2020
People Quotes
Quotes about people, privacy, and human nature.
This page collects quotes touching on people in different senses - novelists describing how characters take on independent vitality, and technologists warning how easily people's movements and data can be tracked. It's a broader mix than a single theme, much like Like Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
In other countries they have histories with revolutions and class movements. In America, people don't like to think of themselves like being in a lower class. They all like to think of themselves as potential millionaires.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
We love wealth, and we hate poor people. I know people who work in TV news who have actually been told to do stand-ups rather than put interviews with poor people on the air. We physically don't want to look at them.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I'm sort of spoiled because, most of the things that I get to do, people know that you're a good improviser, so they allow you at least one improv take, and for comedy, that's great.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never gotten hired for drama because I'm a good improviser. I don't think people who write drama scripts want you playing with them as much.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
L.A. can be pretty insane because there's so much show business here, but I also know a lot of kids who grew up in Manhattan who are some of the most normal, nicest people I know. Casting directors always say Chicago people are just nicer.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Improv Olympics, Second City are some of the most tolerant, accepting people. They're like circus folk. They're freaks themselves.
- Golf Courses
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started when I was three, and on some courses they wouldn't let me play because they said I was too little. They wouldn't accept that a child could play. So my parents had to argue at times with some people at golf courses so I could.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people are all the same underneath, how has society changed so fast and so radically? Life now is completely different to how it was 32,000 years ago. It's changed like that of no other species has. What's made that difference?
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if you put people in front of some huge temptation where it's possible to grab as much as they can for themselves, almost everyone will. The beauty of commerce is that it mutes that. The chap behind the counter in the corner shop has no interest in short-changing you, because he wants you to come back.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sense very little appetite for green efforts to persuade people to accept a frozen or declining standard of living for the sake of the environment. Recessions remind us that economic retreat or stagnation is painful, whatever the goal.
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, people who almost - yeah, there's a slight reluctance there - but there's also an ambiguity. What are their morals? What is their code of living. What are they really doing here. And it is just interesting because it is never black or white.
- Principles
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jon Tester no longer can say that he supports the principles and values of the people of Montana.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people of Montana want to send me to Washington - not to bring home the bacon but to slaughter the hog.
- Enough Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people of Montana understand that you will never be able to take enough money from them and give it to the government to quench that thirst. The government will always spend more money.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020