- City
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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
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Greek people today voted for Greece to remain on its European path and in the eurozone.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great European dream was to diminish militant nationalism. We would all be happy Europeans together. But we are going to see the old monster of militant nationalism being awoken when people realise how little control their politicians have.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some novelists want to give people in history a voice because they have been denied it in the past.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Entertainment history is now the main source of supposedly historical knowledge for more and more people, but 'histo-tainment' is superficial and lacks all context.
- Clue
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- Nov 07, 2020
The temptation in any approaching crisis or conflict is, because people haven't got a clue what lies ahead, they're always searching into the past for some sort of pattern ... to galvanise the nation or their supporters and put themselves on a pedestal to sound Churchillian or Rooseveltian.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of good things about string theory, and it's great that some people want to work on it.
- Cooling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want people to be excited about cooling towers and megasheds; they're as much part of our history as the rural barn.
- Speak
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- Nov 07, 2020
If your work doesn't speak to people, it's beyond comprehension and risible, but if people engage with it, you become tarred with the brush of populism.
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles. Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not famous; I am simply very well-known to certain people. Famous is something different.
- Musicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
You always want to come back with an image that's interesting visually, and you hope to get something from the person you photograph that's different than other images you know of these people.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not totally blind to the fact that I like people to see my work, but if it's not something I would enjoy seeing in a magazine, then I think I shouldn't be making it. I think that I don't represent only myself, I represent more people; I mean, if I like it, then I think more people will like it because I think I'm quite a normal guy.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's so easy for people to stick a label on you, and then that taints everything you touch.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020