- Brain
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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
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I absolutely believe in assimilation. I don't believe I'm any different from straight people. My wants and needs are the same as theirs. I don't look at sexual orientation as that big of a deal. It's just an orientation.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very proud of being Italian-American, but people don't realize that the mafia is just this aberration. The real community is built on the working man, the guy who's the cop, the fireman, the truck driver, the bus driver.
- Nov 07, 2020
I love people who just started making movies - first-timers, second-timers. They take chances.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world's problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain.
- Consulting
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- Nov 07, 2020
How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is important to emphasize that guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people. The guerrilla band is an armed nucleus, the fighting vanguard of the people. It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves.
- Clarify
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's crazy that the Constitution has to be amended to clarify what for the majority of Americans is a clear and true statement: corporations are not people.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Corporations serve an important purpose, but telling people how to vote isn't one of them.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
As more and more people reach the Internet by mobile phone, we should make sure users are getting the open access they believe they're paying for.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
The FCC can and indeed should do more to protect the Internet as the free and open environment people have come to expect and depend on - which is why we need to stand up to attacks on the FCC's authority.
- Clicks
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- Nov 07, 2020
People's mouse clicks decide what businesses, services, and content succeed. Users have equal access to tiny businesses with viral ideas and blue-chip companies, allowing these enterprises to compete on their own merits. It's how so many small start-ups have been able to become Internet success stories.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has been one of my good friends in the House of Representatives. When she was brutally shot, Gabby was out doing what she loved to do - meeting with her constituents in a local setting, allowing people to speak to her directly about the issues that concerned them.
- Open-Minded
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maine people have a live-and-let-live philosophy, and tend to be fair and open-minded.
- Overcome
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in the Maine Senate and proposed Maine RX - a plan to lower prescription drug costs by forcing the pharmaceutical companies to negotiate - I was told by many people that it was too big an idea, and we couldn't overcome opposition from the drug companies.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup, because you're taking some time away from turning the pages, answering your emails, talking to people on the phone, and you're letting your brain process whatever is stuck up in there.
- Common Cause
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like many older D.C. organizations, Common Cause has had to come a long way both in its use of the Internet and its understanding of the great value of engaging people in a broader online dialogue.
- Fallout
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been more interested in what happens after the bad thing has happened - the fallout of the bad thing, when people are already damaged. I'm less interested in seeing people when they're fine and following their journey to becoming damaged.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020