- Me
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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
- Business People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal', the 'New York Times', constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.
- Ride
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I agree with Kathi Zellweger that sanctions mostly punish the ordinary people who live at the edge of starvation.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
- Crossed
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have crossed the Himalayas in flip-flops seeking a blessing from the Dalai Lama.
- China
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1949, Mao Tse-tung's Communists established the People's Republic of China, and the following year, his People's Liberation Army invaded central Tibet.
- Nov 07, 2020
The Uighurs are a Turkic people more closely related to Uzbeks and Kazakhs than to Chinese.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
- Corruptions
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- Nov 07, 2020
I often ask myself, 'Why is it that most of the lies come out of Islamic countries, and why is it that most of the social corruptions are in the Middle East and in these Islamic countries?' The answer is, when you control something, when you suppress something, people try to do it another way.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020