- 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
- Moments
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most pivotal moments in people's lives revolve around emotions. Emotions make stories powerful.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I struck upon this kind of crazy idea that I was going to go to New York and stop 10,000 people on the streets and take their portrait and create kind of a photographic census of the city.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's the rejection that is hard. It's not the interviewing that's hard. It's not the photography that's hard. It's, you know, approaching people all day long and having a good portion of those people reject you and some of them be rude.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The interviews have gotten much longer with 'Humans of New York.' When I was first starting, I was just photographing people. And then I went to just kind of including a quote or two. Now when I'm approaching somebody on the street, I'm spending about 30 to 45 minutes with them often.
- Appreciation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that even though some of the things on 'Humans of New York' are kind of very personal and very revealing, I think the discomfort with sharing that tends to be overwritten by the appreciation of being able to distill the experience of your life into a story and share it with other people.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am interviewing people with a spirit of genuine interest and compassion, and therefore, the general tone of the site is one of genuine interest and compassion. The moment that culture changes, 'Humans of New York' is no longer viable.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Interviewing someone is a very proactive process and requires taking a lot of agency into your own hands to get past people's general normal self-preservation mode.
- Random
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a very immersive and intense form of travel to walk around with an interpreter and stop random people on the street and ask them about their lives.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think everyone feels alone in their sadness, and there's a certain value to hearing other people's sad stories.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think there's any better education than learning the intimate details of the lives of people who you most admire.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems that everywhere I go, people want the same things - security, education, family. It's just that so many people have no avenues through which to obtain these things.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know I have a caption that I'm going to use when somebody tells me something I've never heard before. It's very rarely a thought, a philosophy, when somebody says, 'Oh, I don't like cheese' or 'Oh, I think the government should be overthrown,' because so many people share these thoughts. But what people don't share is stories.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020