- 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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
How many stories do you know about people cooped up in places because of deep snowfall? How many stories where something good happens to those people?
- Together
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is something about a mortarboard that gives otherwise sane and normal people the overwhelming urge to burden you with advice. Some of them cannot help themselves. They were asked to do it by a committee. But one can only take so many pieces of wisdom before they all start to blur together.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Books are wonderful. They are like people, except they mind less when you put them down and wander off to eat something.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Serious beliefs are awkward, especially religious ones. It's not that there's anything wrong with them, it's just that people's real, heart-felt, deeply held beliefs are, well, 'not easy to handle or deal with, requiring great skill, ingenuity, or care' - in a word, awkward.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as cantankerous old people have existed, they have complained that kids nowadays don't seem to know anything.
- Cross-Section
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone praises Harvard 'for the students.' But what makes Harvard's students so great is that they are, in many ways, a cross-section of the larger world. They are normal people who happen to be excellent, and this sets them apart. People who go to Yale go because they want to attend Yale. People who go to Harvard go because they can.
- Nov 07, 2020
I love all reality TV - Strictly, 'The X Factor.' I really don't see why people are so snobby about it.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of the differences that cause students to be excluded in school are actually the same qualities or skills that other people are going to admire, respect or value about that person in adulthood.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to focus on young people and on giving a voice to groups of people who don't normally get their voices heard.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like people to really get a feel for the house before they do anything to it.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get all dressed up in fuchsia, looking like a clown, and show pretty pictures to people.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unhappy people make me feel like I've done something wrong.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020