- 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
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people who work in the scientific field, they need help to convey what it's about.
- Black And White
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- Nov 07, 2020
At first I read mostly books by Southern authors - black and white - because almost all the people I knew were born and raised in the South, starting with my mother. I remember I got a lot of Erskine Caldwell.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people I grew up around, almost all of them had been born and raised in the South. And, you know, they didn't always go to church, but they lived their lives as if God were watching everything they did.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like that.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Something happened during the 1980s - perhaps the political climate of that time - that caused me to ask how a people would become part of a system that oppresses their own people.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd read about Los Angeles and this fact stuck in my mind: that the city gained 1,000 new people every day. In 1956! A thousand people every day! I felt: 'I want to be part of that.'
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of ego is displaying the ego. I've got ego, and I think I'm really good. But maybe I fall down in trying to sell it to people.
- First People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was one of the first people in the Palestinian world, in the late 1970s, to say that there is no military option, either for us or for them, and I'm certainly the only well-known Arab who writes these things - and who writes exactly the same things in the Arab press that I say here.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the secrets the CIA has are about people, not machines and systems, so I didn't feel comfortable with disclosures that I thought could endanger anyone.
- Almost Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who has lost a child will tell you that they don't recover their sense of endless possibility. Some people hide that well. But after a certain age, almost everyone is carrying something like that around, I suppose.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many people have believed that they were Chosen, but none more baldly than the Texans.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of the kind best appreciated if most days are the same.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.
- Planet
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- Nov 07, 2020