- Fear
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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
- Ambition
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes with people I know, they're playing the hunky action guy and there's resistance to them coming out because it's so connected to straight masculinity. There's a plastic kind of movie star who has a very short shelf with very small kind of ambition. I see that but I still don't agree with it.
- Dawn
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it; also realizing it. Most lawyers are very successful, and they think that because they're making money and people think well of them, they must be doing everything right.
- Guns
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- Nov 07, 2020
The vast majority of gun owners don't kill, but people who do kill, tend to kill with guns, and often with illegal guns.
- Reasonable
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
I generally don't select my chicken or my hamburgers based on the personal ideology of the person who is either flipping the hamburgers or making the money back at corporate headquarters. But if people want to do that, they're free to do it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy.
- Nov 07, 2020
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
- Call
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are a lot of people like that! That's my audience.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good people don't spend their time being good. Good people want to spend their time mowing the lawn and playing with the dog. But bad people spend all their time being bad. It is all they think about.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write about the period 1933-42, and I read books written during those years: books by foreign correspondents of the time, histories of the time written contemporaneously or just afterwards, autobiographies and biographies of people who were there, present-day histories of the period, and novels written during those times.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020