- Good
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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
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't swap the era I competed in for anything, not a day of it. I started out as an amateur, and people like myself, Seb Coe, Steve Ovett, Steve Cram, Tessa Sanderson and the rest did it for the glory of winning medals for our country.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
People tend to like an athlete's performance, but if you don't get a feeling for the individual, you're not very emotive about them.
- Lucky
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't even know what it was when I started. But I was lucky. I found it at 16. Most people don't discover decathlon until they're 21 or 22.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.
- Box
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are always put in a box or slot.
- Honesty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings.
- Formation
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- Nov 07, 2020
What sometimes goes on in all sorts of Christian institutions is not formation of people in the character of Christ; it's teaching of outward conformity. You don't get in trouble for not having the character of Christ, but you do if you don't obey the laws.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.
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- Nov 07, 2020