- 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.
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- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were.
- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.
- Clinton Administration
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though I have no real understanding of the mechanics of football, and can only nod along helplessly at complex post-match analyses, I do enjoy watching people who are enormously good at something doing that thing very well.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the time, I read something I've written, and I think, 'Well, that's competent. It's not exactly breaking any boundaries. It's not exactly transgressive. It's just a bunch of fake people in a room talking to each other. But maybe there's a value to that.'
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not writing to encourage people to read my book or even books in general. That's not my job. My job is to write them. And if people want to read them, that's great.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my fiction, I pursue this idea of intimacy, but also - philosophically, politically - I just feel like that's the interesting question for me. How much can we share with other people? I'm not interested in human individuality; I don't even know what that means.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at the history of the letter in the novel, small changes in the British postal service became really significant because of how quickly people are suddenly able to communicate, and letters actually arrive at the intended time, and they arrive to the correct recipient. All of this is really important to a plot.
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