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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 Nov 07, 2020

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't think people spend nearly enough time thinking about what they like and what they're good at.

Nov 07, 2020

To this day, I'm not as interested in music as people think. I'm more interested in how close we can get through the music.

Nov 07, 2020

People want to come to Pakistan but are not given visas. We wish for visas to be given to those people who want to come to Pakistan.

Nov 07, 2020

I think it's healthy that people that work in a creative field look for inspiration in a different creative field.

You
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Nov 07, 2020

You take so much on as a therapist: you just sit there and listen to people talk with you, and you're trying to help people, and it can be draining.

Nov 07, 2020

Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.

Time
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Nov 07, 2020

The U.K. voted for Brexit and a lot of weak-willed, lily-livered people will say ‘yeah but the people did not know what they were voting for, they had no idea of what this was going to entail.' Those are the people who are saying ‘lets get a second referendum, let's make the people aware this time that there is, in fact, a lot more to this.'

Think
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Nov 07, 2020

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Job
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Nov 07, 2020

I've been an actor since I was 18. So that's my proper job. But I was not a very successful actor, if you consider being able to afford your rent successful. I did lots of old people's tours; reminiscence tours.

Family
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Nov 07, 2020

On one hand, I can say, you know, I had many family members - I had many people in my extended family who left right after Katrina, who relocated to different cities, right? Houston, Atlanta. Right? Most of them have come back.

Nov 07, 2020

People just don't believe we'll deliver what we say we will. They don't believe we want to listen or to understand their lives. And they don't believe we are able to do much to make their lives better.

You
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Nov 07, 2020

Negotiation is empathy. It's almost trite to say that if you can't put yourself in the seat of the other person you're speaking with, you're not going to do well. It's not about being a bully, not about making offers people can't refuse.

Nov 07, 2020

We need to have a discussion on race, but we also need to have a discussion on how we are treating poor and minority people in this country.

Daily
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Nov 07, 2020

I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old.

Nov 07, 2020

People buy pads all the time, because they want to write stuff down. We're never going to get away from paper, ever. People like writing; that's why more people are writing more real thank-you notes now - not just to stand out, but because there's something about pen to paper, about holding something cool in your hands.

Work
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Nov 07, 2020

I just want to work on things that are really hard, and when I'm not working on things that are really hard, I want to hang out with people I like to be with, and that's it.

Nov 07, 2020

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

Technology
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Nov 07, 2020

We have to take our democracy back. We cannot leave it to Facebook or Snapchat or anyone else. We have to take democracy back and renew it. Society is about people and not about technology.

Nov 07, 2020

Outside of being an actress, I feel like being out is the biggest way that gay people can change perception. There are people that give millions of dollars to gay organizations but are closeted to their own families.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.

Several quotes here raise concerns about surveillance and encryption, a recurring subject among the public figures quoted. For more wide-ranging reflections, browse Good Quotes or Love Quotes.

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