- Life
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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
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a single mother in the late 1950s was a very shocking thing - and dreadful thing - for people.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it wasn't for John Peel, there would be no Joy Division and no New Order. He was one of the few people to give bands that played alternative music a chance to get heard, and he continued to be a champion of cutting-edge music throughout his life.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
Choosing a name for a band is always a difficult thing, and I don't think people should read too much into a name because, after all, it's just a handle. It doesn't mean anything.
- Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't see yourself in the same way other people see you.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sure every time I bring something out that isn't New Order, people say it sounds like New Order.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,' usually figure they will not be hit by a chip.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was attracted to opera when I was 15 or 16. A very rich man in England bankrupted himself to put on a lot of opera during the war, but he converted a lot of people, myself included, in the process.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have been predicting the death of philosophy since the 17th century. When I was a student, people were saying, 'We're in the last days of philosophy.' Then we were told in the '60s it would be replaced by sociology, then by literary criticism.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Dreamers' was because I really wanted to go back after I heard so much nonsense about '68. I wanted to go back to what for me was '68, when young people thought that they could change the world.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like being able to see an innocence in people. I see a lot of beauty in youth. Young people are in progress. Their faces and bodies and minds are constantly changing. It's exciting to capture that on film.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although some people call me anti-feminist, I know I wasn't because Germaine Greer supported me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020