- God
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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
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to be out in the city every day, listening to what people are saying and asking about what they need. I'd like to inspire others by doing as much as I can to help people who are trying to make a better life for themselves and others.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
A very tiny percentage of people with mental illness are also violent. We know this. The constant linking of the two together in national media is so misleading.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am more than just a label. Why are people so driven to labeling where we fall on the sexual spectrum?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to Wellesley College, and it was really hard for me to get a job after I graduated. I would go into places where I would not see any black people at all in Boston - like, zero. And then in publishing in New York City, it was pretty much the same. I knew that it wasn't about the value of my work.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Government is not just about maintaining the status quo. It's about helping people's lives to work.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't tend to offer up a critique unless I have a clearly formulated alternative, because there's nothing worse than people on a set or any kind of artistic life who critique something but who don't have anything to offer.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I was just never that interested in the lives of my favourite actors, like Cary Grant. I do wonder whether knowing too much about someone's personal life interrupts an audience's ability to suspend disbelief, to really invest in the characters. My preference would always be that people engage with the work.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're looking at people like Patrice Lumumba, you are looking at people who had a very definite plan, and events overran them.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Solomon Northup is one of the most remarkable people I've ever encountered in my life; one of the most amazing stories I have ever been in any kind of contact with. To not tell that story would have been disgraceful, in my opinion.
- Nov 07, 2020
The Second World War simplified things like race, and people came down on very clear lines.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020