- Challenges
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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
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.
- Wish
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In addition to exploring imaginative worlds, I believe that young people should have access to reading material that validates their life, that gives them a sense of identity - to be able to read texts that chimes with their own world, corrals thoughts, and connects with the emotional conflicts of growing up.
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well can I just make a point about the numbers because people talk a lot about police numbers as if police numbers are the holy grail. But actually what matters is what those police are doing. It's about how those police are deployed.
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are mandating forces to hold regular neighbourhood beat meetings. These meetings will give local people the chance to scrutinise the work of their local police.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
People will be able to raise their concerns: what are local officers doing about the drug dealing in the local park? What's happening about the pub where all the trouble is? And the police will have to respond.
- Universe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have admiration for people who can do it well - the guys who wrote 'Cheers' and 'Frasier.' They created sort of a blissful comedic universe.
- Other
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find a lot of input from other people very stressful.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had such a good experience doing 'The Understudy' with the Roundabout, and people were really enthusiastic about the work.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of times, I think people feel that new plays are suspect, and actually, I don't know where that came from. I completely disagree with it!
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020