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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
- Science
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way we have been thinking about brain science is that people show you pretty pictures, pretty images, and you think that that tells you something about how they behave. It doesn't.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If politicians did care about their constituents, they would work harder to seek out people like me. They don't.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am committed to the people who are sick and tired of seeing their tax dollars being used to fund unethical people and corporations.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a parent, a scientist, and educator, what I know is that it's always better to provide the education that will help keep my children - all people - safe, even if I don't want them to engage in the behavior.
- Prison
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you go to jail, you are under the supervision of the state. You are housed with people who are criminals, so that becomes the expectation. People learn to become better criminals in jail and prison.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Too often, ill-informed rhetoric has led to emotional hysteria that obfuscates solid evidence regarding the real problems faced by poor people and, in overwhelmingly great proportions, by black people.
- Boredom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people are curious at some level, and they want to alter their current state of being. I mean, that could be from curiosity, that could be from stress, that can be from some other sort of ailments or problem that they are experiencing or could just be from boredom, but humans have always attempted to alter their consciousness.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things we know about people is that people are not very courageous in general.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've always been fascinated with movie stars and singers, but the fascination with people who really have nothing to offer is something new.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.
- Good Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes it takes a wake-up call, doesn't it, to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lives instead of actually living them; that we're living the fast life instead of the good life. And I think, for many people, that wake-up call takes the form of an illness.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread right across Europe and beyond. And in this, towns begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape so that people are encouraged to slow down and smell the roses and connect with one another.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020