- 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
I don't have an all-embracing vision which people have to buy. I'm simply trying to work with the struggles we all deal with every day while we're trying to live out our personal destinies and make a living at the same time.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
New technology is not good or evil in and of itself. It's all about how people choose to use it.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
After being raised as an evangelical Christian, I for years assumed that Christianity was the default - there were Christians, and then there were weirdos. I was shocked when, in college, I found that some people get offended when you tell them, for instance, that their recovery from surgery was a 'miracle.'
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think anyone who doesn't say that they'd like people to think that they're doing the right thing is wrong. I mean, I'd like it to be that way, but I've never allowed it to influence my actions.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a lot for it.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's very dangerous, the idea of celebrity - you have to be constantly controversial to maintain the status of celebrity. Reality TV is the death of entertainment - it's just mindless TV but popular because of its voyeuristic nature, and people are very voyeuristic.
- Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between playwrights and novelists.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd love to be remembered as a character actor who brought illumination to roles in wonderful plays and who delivered performances that made people think and rethink those roles.
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really not interested in showing me or playing me. My gift as an actor, given to me, is to be able to become other people.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people inconvenienced.
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- Nov 07, 2020