- Opportunity
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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
- Fooling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Respect
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.
- Civilization
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- Nov 07, 2020
What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Leftovers' takes place three years after 2% of the population has gone missing. And it's about how that changes society. Cults form as a result, and it drastically changes home life for a lot of people, including the Garvey family, which is the family I belong to.
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
People talk about escapism as though it's something nasty but escapism is wonderful!
- Comparable
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- Nov 07, 2020
I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a great deal of confidence when I graduated from Berkeley. I had almost none when I was at Princeton. After a while, when people tell you you can't do something because you're a woman, you begin to believe maybe they're right.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
At least in part, people are attracted to subjects where they can identify at a basic level with the people who do it. The extraordinary aesthetic of the natural world is not obvious to someone who never leaves the inner city. Appreciation of the elegance and power of physical law is an acquired taste.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is always great when people take interest in your work.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
- Little Things
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- Nov 07, 2020