- Capitalism
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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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's important to remember that, in the 1930s, a lot of people in the West looked at communism as a pretty good idea. That was partly because they didn't know how bad things were on the communist side of the world, but it was also partly because things were bad in the West.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hollowing out of the middle class. That's not just about capitalism or the structure of taxation. That is also about the fundamental truth that machines can do a lot of things better than humans used to do. A lot of those people are being pushed down to do less value-adding jobs, so they get paid less money.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
This globalization is lifting up hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. The Left needs to see that.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
The progressives like to talk a lot about poverty - and you should. However, it's the guys in the middle who have really been hurt by the global economy . The people at the bottom have been holding on to their jobs quite well, actually.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Companies and capital operate internationally, often beyond the economic reach of any particular nation-state. People are pretty global, too, living lives that freely cross national borders.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you believe in democracy, than you can't trash it by being cynical about the people who do democracy: the politicians.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it.
- Big Band
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Big Band Era is my era. People say, 'Where did you get your style from?' I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That's the best way I could explain it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't just go to the studio and say, 'I'm going to write a hit.' It becomes a hit when people like your compositions.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a way, I feel it might be ill-mannered to try and top myself. The music I play is a ritual. Something that matters to people in a special way. I wouldn't want to interfere with that.
- Hear People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It amazes me when I hear people say, 'I want to go out and find out who I am.' I always knew who I was. I was going to be famous if it killed me.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020