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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.
- Cognitive
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come.
- Pakistan
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas.
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- Nov 07, 2020
What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice; the laws are still on the books.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consider it a great honor to be able to step on stage every night and do a show that people have paid money to see.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I pay attention when people get manicures and pedicures. I've always noticed it as a guy. When my wife goes to get her nails done, I'm always very aware of it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know it's going to sound cliche, but we're all artists just trying to tell a story. Whether it's on television or whether it's in a theater, you just hope that people are moved.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020