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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
- Shoulder
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- Nov 07, 2020
People read stuff over your shoulder when you're in public, and when you write the kind of stuff I do, and people read it over your shoulder, it makes you a little self-conscious.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
People come to Portland, many of them for the quality of life. They love the physical space here. And yet every year, people climbing the mountain get killed by avalanches.
- Grad
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I say that I went to grad school in Iowa City, people often assume that I went to the famed writers' workshop MFA program at the University of Iowa. I didn't. I got a master's in journalism.
- Decade
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd lived in Portland on and off for a decade before I'd even heard of Vanport. It was this town of 20,000 people that washed away from north Portland.
- Natural Disasters
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What inspires me most are people who imagine and implement solutions to challenges in their own lives, in their communities, in our country and around the world.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope that young people will also look to politics as a vehicle to not only have their voices heard, but actually to be the change makers that they want to see. They are disaffected, understandably, but I hope that young people will not only turn out to vote but also run for office.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who imagine and implement solutions to challenges in their own lives, in their communities, in our country and in our world have always inspired me.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the summer I thought that I would seek out non-Americans as friends, just for diversity's sake. Now I find that I want to be around Americans - people who I know are thinking about our country as much as I am.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad had always been a big decaf coffee drinker. But my mom had always been more of a tea drinker. So I grew up around a lot of tea. And I also really love tea. But I'm not one of those people who has ever felt the need to choose between coffee and tea. I think that is a completely false dichotomy.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your mother embarrasses you in front of maybe a couple hundred people. My mother embarrasses me in front of millions.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to be the best daughter and wife and friend and person I can be. And I want to help empower the people around me to be the best they can be.
- Nov 07, 2020