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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
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made this Swedish movie called 'Snabba Cash,' or 'Easy Money,' and it was shown at the Berlin Film Festival. A lot of American studios, agents, and people like that saw it there and liked it.
- Come
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was quite a successful evangelist. I've had people write to me and say, 'Gee, I'm a Christian because of you and I hear you're not a Christian, that's shocking to me.' I don't take these things lightly, but that's who I am. I can't change it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.
- Illusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think this is an illusion of uniqueness.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art.
- Emigrate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. That's half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tell people, if you really want me to look that good, why don't you cough up about $2 million more and hire Alec or Billy? If you want me to do it, this is what you get.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one thing that disturbs me about Alec is that people don't realize that he's really funny.
- Spiritual
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the spectrum when you get to that 12th step, when you have that spiritual awakening we make ourselves available to help other people.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020