- Great Opportunity
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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
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who try to tackle failure attract failure. The more you indulge in analysis, it gets tougher. So just keep making mistakes and learn.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if their name was associated with me.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.
- Brazen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a brazen extrovert, but I'm not as blushing or demure as people might think.
- Fierce
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one thing - apart from assumptions about German - that I have to challenge frequently is people assuming that lexicographers are fierce protectors of the language when in fact our job is not to put a lid on it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
German has always felt the language that I come back to. It's given a very hard time by most people for being ugly and guttural. In fact, it's one of the most melodic, lyrical languages around. And German literature is amazing. It's just a treasury for me.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.
- Bolster
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our idea of a healthy body is so destabilised that insecure people have come to bolster their own bodies by deeming others - those with fat bodies - less worthy, less capable and less employable.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse.
- Different Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have different ideas on how to increase female racing driver participation. My belief is that men and women should compete together.
- Immune
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- Nov 07, 2020
We found out that, contrary to what many people thought, in the immune system, genes can change during the life cycle of the individual.
- Some People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think everybody has something that takes them away or makes them happier. To some people it's baseball or sports or knitting or the movies.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I only tweet about food and silly things, but it's really fascinating because I get a lot of response on Twitter, and I'm always looking at the type of people who write me on there, and it is such a variety.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm single. I just moved to a new city. I'm sort of starting over. I'm in Los Angeles. I don't really know what my life is right now. It's not what I thought it'd be at 37, and I think a lot of people can relate to that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before.
- Flailing
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- Nov 07, 2020