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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
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grief, no matter where it comes from, can only be resolved by connecting to other people.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have recognized me sometimes but not much. I'm glad my life isn't too different. I don't want it to be.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I became director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was stodgy, gray, run by elitists. I said, 'Hey, let's kick the thing around.' I wanted to attract young people to the museum. I said, 'Make it hospitable. I want them to come. I want them to make dates, pick up girls, pick up boys - either way; I don't care.'
- Hat
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually did an Agatha Christie monologue for my audition showcase at Guildhall, and that's how I got my agent. Some people said 'ooh it's old hat' and 'too risky'. Some people think she's all about the narrative and thriller aspect at the expense of character and I disagree. I did it anyway and it worked well.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something I really love about independent filmmaking. Everyone is a little bit more close-knit, and you rely on people a little bit more. The bigger the budget gets, the more everyone toes the line in their department.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually, people write the characters into a box, and that's just not true to life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's one of those things where people tell you that when you have kids it will change your perspective on life, and you're like, 'Yea, yea,' but then you really understand it when it happens to you.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
Millionaires are risk-takers, and they don't become millionaires until they're 40 or 50. It's a slower process than a lot of people think.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason that so few people are financially independent today is that they place many negative roadblocks in their heads. Becoming wealthy is, in fact, a mind game.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think any good judge recognizes his or her place in our constitutional government, and that place is not to upset the will of the people as expressed through their elected representatives.
- Honor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm old enough to have lived through a time when Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers, Viola Liuzzo, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and others died so people of color could vote.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people are going to be happy with my decision, some people aren't... But I must live my life.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
An interest in ideas is a sign of human life. People are fascinated by what the future is going to be - and the future is going to be an accumulation of ideas.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020