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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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want to get back to it, and your life becomes a bit of an interruption. I would love readers to feel like that.
- Hat
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
- Concealing
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- Nov 07, 2020
People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I put those people in place. I trusted them. I had no idea they would do anything like this.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have met guys who work the overnight shift at 7-11, selling Slurpees and Camels to insomniacs who have more introspection than a lot of people in the mainstream media.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, I think everybody realizes that calling people racist is a waste of time; nobody buys it anymore.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people who voted for Barack Obama expected and were led to expect something new in politics: a new tone of political discourse in Washington. And I think - I think they're disappointed, because Barack Obama is not a new kind of politician. In fact, he's an old Chicago politician.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't understand why people expect tips. In hotels you order food in your room, and it's already more expensive from the room service menu, so it's a cheek to expect a tip on top. I do sometimes reward good service, but it should be at my discretion, and I'm not going to be held to ransom.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a really good time working with Jim Cameron. A lot of people didn't, but I did as I got on with him really quite well. For a director who spends most of his time looking down a lens or in the digitisation studio or working out some graphics, he is actually very good with actors.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not downplaying my age - because humankind is such that people run away from their age. Especially women. Guys pretend not to care, but they do. Age is not a good thing to most human beings. But, being an alien, I embrace it.
- Some
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people might think they're invincible, but I don't.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
Age is not a problem. It becomes a problem when people try and make us think old.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020