- Man
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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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide that will never return. The white man's God cannot love our people, or He would protect them.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
As ubiquitous as the brands of the warehouse clubs are - Costco, BJ's and Sam's - they're not everywhere. If you have less than a million people in your town, or less than 500K, you might never get access to wholesale savings.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to running a business and interacting with people, you need to be very transparent.
- Treat
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone is now praying at the altar of every last dollar of profits to please shareholders. If you invest in your people and treat them well, it's a different way to increase profits.
- Anything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always favored kids as a player. If I walked out of the locker room and there were 100 people there and 50 of them were kids, I'd sign the 50 kids before anything else.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
I ask questions. I watch the world. And what I have discovered is that the parts of my fiction that people most tell me are 'unbelievable' are those that are most closely based on the real, those least diluted by my imagination.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I often think that people who write a lot about poverty need to go and spend more time with poor people.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think people are frightened of saying what they think, and I think that's a bad thing for society.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always done things that made me happy. I work with people I like, and I do the job I like. I only see people who I like to be with. I have led a wonderful life.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.
- Condoleezza
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- Nov 07, 2020