- Like
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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
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd been in a vicious cycle and circle of people and couldn't see my way out. So I picked myself up one day about 15 years ago and moved where I didn't know anyone.
- Chopping
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like a lot of entrepreneurs hear all this talk about profitability and realize they need to lower their burn. So, they just start chopping off perks and people.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
The goal of a private company is, first, zero to one: Get past the product-market fit; figure out whether people actually care about what you're trying to build and someone will pay you money for that. That's the zero to one problem.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in people's hands. But I'm kind of a mainstream artist now. Not by choice.
- Business Side
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole point of 'Acid Rap' was just to ask people a question: does the music business side of this dictate what type of project this is? If it's all original music and it's got this much emotion around it and it connects this way with this many people, is it a mixtape? What's an 'album' these days, anyways?
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know where people think I'm from, but I'm from Chicago. It's really just that. People wanna romanticize it and say, 'There's two sides to it, and it's a beautiful love/hate story of violence and music.' But it's really just a very scummy place where people don't have respect for other people's lives.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music can kind of make you one-dimensional. People see what's on the surface and what you rap about, and they make their decision on who you are from there.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the first times I ever performed in front of a big group of people was at my kindergarten graduation. I did, like, a Michael Jackson impersonation as, like, a five year old. I had the suit and blazer, the glove and the fedora, and I just performed a whole Michael Jackson song. I'm sure it was 'Smooth Criminal.'
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020