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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
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
People were very nice to me. They knew I didn't have the money to do figure-drawing classes, so they let me annex the figure-drawing classes that the animators had.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we can be the best people we are as individuals, then that's the way to change the world.
- Nov 07, 2020
Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not successful in Hollywood, and I probably would never be. I think Hollywood has such an interesting model for success, and it creates those successful people. I'm not in that chosen category, but what is successful for me is that, in spite of that, I've been able to work and do the things that I wrote down that I wanted to do and be.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
That is why we are working with these various groups that have volunteers. We can get a lot of these things done. Nobody has dropped out, and a lot of people would like to join. We now know what each other does.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn't exist without them.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger numbers of people. It's as though you begin to think that poetry is a resource, and that at certain times people seem to need it or want it or can find sustenance in it, and at other times they can't.
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
- Nov 07, 2020
In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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- Nov 07, 2020