- Music
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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
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Strictly' is a bit like scoring the winning goal in the FA Cup Final or sinking the final putt in the Ryder Cup - only a few people get the opportunity to do it, and they have got to be famous.
- Egg
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think cookery shows have become so sophisticated, and everyone's so marvellous at it, but there are people like me who aren't into the cooking malarkey, who still don't know how to boil an egg for three minutes.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was one of those people who just flitted about in life. I had no plans and no sense of direction.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Frank Sinatra was a great singer, but my favourite is Sammy Davis Jr. He had incredible versatility in his voice, often doing impressions of people. It's always going to be classic, and you'll never get bored listening.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm actually embarrassed to tell people I'm Russian these days, because it's become such an awful place.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been lucky to be able to work with great people and on interesting material.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's great to express yourself and tell other people's stories and get into the minds of people who aren't like you.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who look for the first time through a microscope say, 'Now I see this, and then I see that,' and even a skilled observer can be fooled. On these observations I have spent more time than many will believe, but I have done them with joy, and I have taken no notice of those who have said, 'Why take so much trouble,' and, 'What good is it?'
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020