- Face
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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
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a chaotic world, U.S. diplomats will probably have even less contact with the people they need to reach.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
Big mistakes were made in Benghazi, and people should be held accountable. But the brave officers who staff American posts in crisis zones know how dangerous the work is.
- Blame
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- Nov 07, 2020
Frightened people want to protect themselves, sometimes without thinking about others. Often, they get angry and want to find someone to blame for catastrophe. Inevitably, they spread information without checking if it's true.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fear brings out the best in some people and the worst in others. It's a test of character, for individuals and nations.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort on the part of a bunch of people trying to think alike.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can't be anti-everything - we need an energy plan that adds up. But there's a lack of numeracy in the public discussion of energy. Where people do use numbers, they select them to sound big and score points in arguments, rather than to aid thoughtful discussion.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like to help people have honest and constructive conversations about energy. We need to understand how much energy our modern lifestyles use, decide how much energy we would like to use in the future, and choose where we will get that energy from.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe our young people are not as vacuous as we would like to lead ourselves to believe - that all they're interested in is hairdos and looking at other beautiful people. Maybe they're interested in learning something.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
How do I feel about being called a national treasure? I think it's marvellous if that's people's opinion. But I'd rather have the money than the label.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's humour - doing what funny people have done since comedy began without being edgy and pushing boundaries.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
We get the impression through film and TV that Americans are violent gangsters with guns or upper-middle-class people in romcoms. I really liked the people. They were really warm. They could have been Brits. I mean that in the nicest possible way.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020