- Better
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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
- Good Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing to put in the legwork.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs.
- Cheney
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Contrary to the popular misconception, the actor is not necessarily a specialist in imitating or portraying what he knows about other people. On the contrary, the actor may simply be a person who's more willing than others to reveal some truths about himself.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.
- Comparison
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- Nov 07, 2020
Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
- Favored
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The stability and security of authoritarian regimes cannot create but terrorism and violence and destruction. Let us accept the choice of the people. Let us not pick and choose who we would like to rule their future.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I like to call 'journalism of depth' is the media that regards the collective conscience of the masses to be its point of departure. It is the media that believes, as a matter of principle, in the potential capabilities of the people and respects their choices.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
At times, some journalists see nothing in the people apart from an opportunity to make material gain. They see them as consumers to whom we sell commodities at huge profits that keep our bank accounts growing.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020