- 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
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The qualities that make parties such a nightmare for people - and also so pleasurable - make them incredibly important inside of fiction. There's a chaos agent quality to them: You just don't know who's going to be there or why. You could run into an old enemy, an old friend, an old friend who's become an enemy.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
As of 2013, according to the World Health Organization, 35 million people were estimated to be living with HIV or AIDS globally, and 39 million have died from the disease. The epidemic of denial won, and now everyone knows there is money in the making of drugs for AIDS.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Information technology is a formidable enabler of freedoms. For example, it lowers barriers to freedom of expression and allows people to get a better grasp of their lives. It should not be used to reduce the freedom of people.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
As more people live longer, we can expect there to be additional costs for society.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often away. But when I'm asked that question I often reflect on my inability really to be able to answer it in any relative sense because I never grew up with a father doing anything else. So I just have no idea what it would be like otherwise.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people are concerned about my house and where I live again it's much more of a reflection on them than it is on me.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to feel I was more French than anything, but I don't feel that way anymore. I really don't feel like I belong to a specific country, and it is so difficult for people to understand that.
- Funny Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The funny thing about acting is, there's no 'right' way to make it. Some people need to work their butts off, and some don't. They're just naturals. I wasn't a natural. I sucked.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found that the nicer and more helpful I was to people I worked with, whether I was 'somebody' or 'nobody' on set, the more fun I had.
- Nov 07, 2020
People who are creating history don't realize they're creating it at the time it's happening.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020