- 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
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had to turn social media off. It was just crazy. Just to see the messages rolling through and people shouting, 'Till beat Tyron,' booking flights and booking hotels, that's becoming the norm right now.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are anticipating my next move, and whatever it's going to be, it's going to be big. I'm not fussy over my opponent.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.
- Nov 07, 2020
I would say a successful campaign reflects the desire of the people who are there to support a candidate.
- Some
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you spend almost two years out talking to people, praying with them, and really finding out some of those tough issues that are impacting them, it makes a lasting impression on you.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like anything, I remember who I work for. You work for the people who sent you to office.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of my life, I've been told no. That I was too poor, too short, too black. I enjoy it when people underestimate me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unfortunately for me, I was one of these people who took a long time to learn that the material at his feet was fine.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a lot of notes and fragments and observations that never amounted to anything. After the Wall had gone down, so many people were writing about Berlin, I didn't have the same urgency or feel enough authority.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
The city - as the theater of experience, the refuge, the hiding place - has, in turn, been replaced by an abstraction, the fast lane. In the fast lane, the passive observer reduces everything - streets, people, rock lyrics, headlines - to landscape. Every night holds magical promises of renewal. But burnout is inevitable, like some law of physics.
- Farther
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of black people in Manhattan is a story of people getting pushed farther uptown as land acquires new uses and increases in value.
- Foreign Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Indianapolis, Ind., then a conservative, provincial city. Anglophilia was the first foreign language I was exposed to. Or maybe it was a way of one-upping the local white people. Or maybe it was an early manifestation of homohood.
- Racism
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- Nov 07, 2020
People learn racism through dialogue. Somebody tells them about it. So if you can learn it through dialogue, you can also unlearn it through dialogue.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020