- 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
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020
I certainly knew from an early age... how to tell stories; how to create pictures in other people's heads.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people think that horror films are some sort of second class filmmaking, and the only way to bypass that thinking is being proud of the fact that we do it.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of places where the image of a cube as a thing of power is pertinent. I don't know why that is. I don't have any mythic explanation for it, but it seems to work for people.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
The purity of finding the right artist, that artist that's gonna be the next hall of famer, that artist that's gonna be the next headliner, lifting people out of their seats at Madison Square Garden, that song that's gonna be sung for hundreds and hundreds of years, that essence remains the same.
- Nov 07, 2020
There will come a time when very few will care about other people's sexual preference - or preferences.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other - the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think the Internet has replaced cities in any significant way, nor really could it. Cities are dynamic - and deeply seductive for the people who flock there - because they broker all sorts of fantastic and useful connections, cultural and economic and social.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other people, arguing with them, relying on them to recall information for us.
- Nov 07, 2020
The amount of writing that people do online is astonishing, and historically unprecedented.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is something about the ability to externalize our thoughts and compare them with other people in a public way that is really transformative for the average person.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what's going on in the lives of other people - what they're thinking about, what they're doing, what they're looking at - by paying attention to the small stray status messages that people are putting online.
- Technology
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main message of 'Smarter Than You Think' is an attempt to look at the productively new and interesting ways that we have begun to learn about the world, to think about what we found, and to mull it over and argue about it with other people as we use technology.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020