- 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
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are voluntarily giving money to A.E.I. - there is no government money - because they think the work we do is valuable.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
When 'The Bell Curve' came out, I'd have lectures with lots of people chanting and picketing with signs, but it was always within the confines of the event and I was eventually able to speak.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's much more fun to talk to an audience that includes a lot of people who disagree with me.
- Poor People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We decided in the mid-1960s that all poor people are the same: they are all poor. We know they're poor because we have defined a poverty line, and they're all underneath it.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here's the secret you should remember whenever you hear someone lamenting how tough it is to get ahead in the postindustrial global economy: Few people work nearly as hard as they could.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A voice in my head tells me that I'm at the twilight of an extraordinary life. I say extraordinary because of the people who have loved me. I say twilight because of what people say to me in the supermarket.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I was an only child, I don't like many people around, and that's why I don't have any servants.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.
- Nov 07, 2020
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
- Nov 07, 2020
The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Frankly, to be honest, I hadn't worked for two years before 'Murphy Brown.' It's a nice illusion now to think of all of us as terribly successful and talented people at the top of our profession, but that's hindsight. I had to pray for a job like this.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
The role of business is to provide products and services that make people's lives better - while using fewer resources - and to act lawfully and with integrity.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
In business, real jobs profitably produce goods and services that people value more highly than their alternatives. Subsidizing inefficient jobs is costly, wastes resources, and weakens our economy.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020