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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
For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation... they are coming from something that totally has nothing to do with this. If they are expecting to come into a room full of people praising them, then they are in the wrong place.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people are just so happy to get published to, they sign anything. Next thing you know, they've signed over the rights to their book.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a lot of people watch these Victorian-era shows, they're in love with the costumes, the romance, the whole sweep of it all. But there is nothing nostalgic about 'The Knick' at all.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm resigned to the fact that I'm gonna be the person in shows that people hate and dislike and root against. And I'm OK with it.
- Blame
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't just blame things on evil. Everyone's a human, so when people say that somebody's behaving 'inhuman,' it's not. It's very human - it's just not a very nice side of it.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a performer, I'm happy if one person gets to see the work I do, but to have lots of people see it and appreciate it, it feels good.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 1950s and early 1960s, psychoanalysis swept through the intellectual community, and it was the dominant mode of thinking about the mind. People felt that this was a completely new set of insights into human motivation, and that its therapeutic potential was significant.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was reluctant to be critical of the United States because I thought the United States could do no wrong; that the government could not lie to its people.
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the ultimate challenges of biology is to understand how the brain becomes consciously aware of perception, experience and emotion. But it is equally conceivable that the exchange would be useful for the beholders of art, for people who enjoy art, for historians, and for the artists themselves.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the wonderful things about Internet is it's like a salon. It brings people together from different intellectual walks of life.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and that the function of the scientist was to figure out the mathematical rules whereby the universe was created.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem for many people is that we cannot point to the underlying biological bases of most psychiatric disorders. In fact, we are nowhere near understanding them as well as we understand disorders of the liver or the heart.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020