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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
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I would rather people take me as straightforward and not have to wonder if I'm kidding or not. Because what I have to say, and what I'm interested in doing and communicating, is worthwhile enough that I don't want to muck it up with people being confused about where I'm really coming from.
- Hardest Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy comedic things. People don't understand it's the hardest thing to do. We have a ratio of 25-to-1 between good dramatic actors and people who are considered good comic actors.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always known and been interested in people who are a little bit off the norm. I like to call attention to the idea that they are there, that they are real people, not invisible.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.
- Nov 07, 2020
Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you need five minutes every hour to look at tweets or to just surf the Internet, you need to schedule that into your schedule, allow yourself to do that. Because when people start procrastinating, what they've done is, they've tried to ignore that urge. They try to deny themselves time on Facebook or time surfing the web.
- Habit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every habit is made of three parts... a cue, a routine and a habit. Most people focus on the routine and behavior, but these cues and rewards are really the way you make something into a habit.
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- Nov 07, 2020