- 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
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like extreme situations: people pushed out of their comfort zones; the civil veneer stripped off.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of my literature deals with these people who are somehow magnetic because they have that ability to step over lines.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt impelled to write. It felt demonic, and I wanted to improve, the way some people habitually pick up a guitar and get better at playing it and making up songs.
- Nov 07, 2020
I am a feminist, although I always worry saying that because you then get people asking you about the 1970s.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
You are often asked to explain your work, as if the reader isn't able to work it out. And people always try and label you by your work.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly of people in power.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The work of WikiLeaks is with principal documentary evidence; that's where the truth lies. It gets to the heart of the matter. It educates people and in turn empowers them.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Britain has a Terrorism Act, which has within it a portion called Schedule 7, which is quite unique. What it is is it gives officials the ability to detain people at the border as they go in or out or even transit through the country.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a very sensitive person by nature. Things move me very easily, like music or videos on Facebook, and I feel for people.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been in companies where they have galas. U.S. companies aren't government-funded, so they invite wealthier people to come to these events. It's a very glamorous art form. They send you off to talk to bankers, and they make you feel objectified in a way.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the people to hear directly from their president, no matter what format that is in - whether it's through social-media platforms, whether it's through speeches, whether it's through interviews - that's always a positive.
- Ignore
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot have people leaking classified information at any level, and we certainly take that very seriously and would not ignore that.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American people elected somebody who's tough, who is smart, and who is a fighter. It's Donald Trump. And I don't think it's a surprise to anybody that he fights fire with fire.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020