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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
- Nov 07, 2020
Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a venture capitalist, I invest in people and ideas that are fresh, vibrant, and willing to disrupt the market. As a political donor, I like to see the same energy in the people I support.
- Technology
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
Older people say, 'Oh I loved you in 'Sense and Sensibility,' and that's the only film they want to talk about. Equally, there are people who only want to talk about 'Galaxy Quest.' And there's a whole bunch of teenagers who only want to talk about 'Dogma.'
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Markets do very weird things because it reacts to how people behave, and sometimes people are a little screwy.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
People don't realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but that's as far as we go. And I've had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward. The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
What a sound money system does is to stabilize all the elements in it, and reduces the uncertainty that people confront. And the one thing all human beings do when they are confronted with uncertainty is pull back, withdraw, disengage, and that means economic activity, which is really dealing with people, just goes straight down.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most high-income people in our country do not realize that their incomes are being subsidized by their protection from competition from highly skilled people who are prevented from immigrating to the United States. But we need such skills in order to staff our productive economy, so that the standard of living for Americans as a whole can grow.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020