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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
- Busy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary to use some sort of standard with which to judge their reliability. Perhaps the answer (strictly advisory) is a body of their peers. Perhaps not.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
People forget at the time that 'The Simpsons' started out, it was controversial - the fact that they said 'hell' and 'damn' in a cartoon was a lot. America was in an uproar.
- Rock
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you ask people who their favorite comedian is or favorite African-American comedian, people generally say Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Eddie Murphy, or Richard Pryor. Redd Foxx gets left out a lot.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mike Tyson and I came up together in the streets, and being around people like him, I learned what goes on behind the scenes.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
As you get older and you hopefully battle your own demons, you find other reasons why you want to be an actor. The people that I truly admire do this because they love telling stories and they love the make-believe of the moment and not so much the gratification afterwards.
- Nov 07, 2020
To whatever degree you have as a celebrity or notoriety, there are people who see you as an opinion leader.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just growing up, my dad always told me the most important point of the game is the extra point. A lot of people take that play off. It's an opportunity to make something happen, and I'm going to make the most of it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like saying 'no' to people, and I'm going to have to learn how to say 'no' more.
- Situation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Frankly, I guess, I don't really understand why people, why so many people, are so risk averse. You know, there's always ways to wiggle your way out of any situation if you're motivated enough.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honestly, I feel you are poisoned if you read too much of the scientific literature because it makes you start thinking like other people. You're better off having a vague sense of what's going on and making your own way.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I make an analogy that each scientific paper is like putting out another record. And some people have careers that are nothing but a one-hit wonder. And then there are people who are only appreciated by aficionados but largely forgotten by the wider community.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
It always irritated me that people think they have to be locked into a career path.
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- Nov 07, 2020