- Good
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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not sure I'd go back and do anything over in my life. I've definitely had my fair share of failures and moments where I wasted my time or that of other people, but if I did those moments over, I'd have missed out on so many lessons.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only problem we've had is the amount of time it's taking people to develop titles.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a big Hollywood guy. I don't know how the machine works. I leave that to people better than myself.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've got so many different cultural groups in my family that I've had to learn to accommodate them in different ways. My father speaks different to my mum. My mum speaks different to my grandmother. Everybody speaks different, so you find you start tweaking your language to be more accessible to people.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want to make people laugh and make them think about socially relevant issues, but comedy, by the very nature of the word, is to make people laugh. If people aren't laughing, it's not comedy. It's as simple as that.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in South Africa during apartheid, a system of laws that made it illegal for people to mix in South Africa. And this was obviously awkward because I grew up in a mixed family. My mother's a black woman, South African Xhosa woman... and my father's Swiss, from Switzerland.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I live in a country where I'd say nine out of ten people know me when I walk through the streets. There's people taking pictures, there's tabloids trying to make up stories. I'm used to that. The same thing when I'm in Australia or the U.K.: I get stopped.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been a fan of issues around race and racialism, and I've loved playing with it. People act as though it isn't an issue, but it's a recurring theme in our lives globally.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've experienced a private doubt, something that I've kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered a piece of work that people responded to with huge enthusiasm.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really don't think art is good at answering questions. It's much better at posing questions - and even better at simply asking people to open their eyes.
- Misunderstanding
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- Nov 07, 2020
People like to say that my work is about making the invisible visible, but that's a misunderstanding. It's about showing what invisibility looks like.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Across the board, people are looking at the problem, but simply not changing anywhere near fast enough.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020