- 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
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even the toughest people have a backstory, and villains don't feel like they're the bad guys.
- Grandfathers
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- Nov 07, 2020
They call Howard University the 'capstone of black education.' Howard was one of the historically black colleges where people want to go and send their children. Both of my grandfathers went through the medical school, and being in D.C., not far from New York City, it was a natural choice for me.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, my father's people were Mormon, and had immigrated not long after Brigham Young had settled Utah.
- Horror
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do needlepoint from kits. I give them as gifts to people in the form of cushion covers and they are often speechless with horror.
- Egg
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to help my dad with a stall selling eggs when I was about 12. People were so hard up they would ask for one egg. But mostly no one came by at all. It was very demoralising.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate to be treated as if I'm invisible. I get incensed when people talk across me or refuse to catch my eye in a restaurant or shop.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
To some people, the fact that I am not married, or don't have children, would be the reason I have written a book on punctuation.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very bubbly, so when people meet me, they sometimes think I'm fake. I'm excited to meet new people, but I guess I sound like I'm being sarcastic.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't play music very well, so I've always surrounded myself with people who played a lot better than I did. I'm a loyal person, and I just tend to leave it to the experts.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would just randomly blurt out things like, 'What if a man showed up today and was carrying an umbrella, but it wasn't raining?' Eventually, people started to call me weird.
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- Nov 07, 2020
However long, it's definitely the presence of other people that brings out the weirdness - that collision of your own way of being with the everyday lives of others, the abrupt awareness - always a surprise no matter how often it's happened - that their lives are very different from your own.
- Conditional Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
True adulthood occurs the moment we grasp that the people who raised us do not exist solely for our comfort and reassurance. From that point on, the steady stream of unconditional love and support we've expected from them all our lives has to flow both ways.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the beginning of time, we've told stories, Shamans and Medicine People, and not to be pompous about it, but I feel like that is the lineage I take down and where I come from. There is magic to storytelling.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020