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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
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people I admire unreservedly are my parents. They are the real pioneers of Africa in many ways. They were born and raised in rural Africa during the colonial period. They are the ones who came to the U.S. long before I did.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
A nascent economy needs a transparent and accountable government and an efficient civil service to help meet social needs. Its people need jobs and a belief in their country's future. A surfeit of aid has been shown to be unable to help achieve these goals.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa... It's not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there'd be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.
- Words
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- Nov 07, 2020
Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It's very easy when you're a young actor to have these intense, explosive friendships for short periods of time, because you can control what's shown of you. Then you go on to your next job and reinvent yourself again. I think it's important to find something constant.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don't need to do so.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love music. In a lot of my downtime, I spend time listening to other people's music or other people's rhymes and writing my own.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know, personally, people said a lot about what kind of defender I was. So I wanted to get better at it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want him to hurt himself. I don't want him to choke on something. You're just so concerned for them, and it hurts you. It's so alarming, man. I feel it for the people around me, but it's deeper for my son. Only a parent would understand.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
This era is like, 'Oh, I want to win championships, and how many rings do you have?' I've said that's what I play for: to win. But I'm not as overly consumed by that as how I treat people around me. And how I care about the people around me.
- Pressure
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people kind of... conform. I don't want it to sound like I'm saying don't care about championships. That's not my point. But what I'm saying is a lot of people give in to the pressure of, 'I didn't have this; I didn't have rings.'
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.
- Each Individual
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- Nov 07, 2020