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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
First, I was so dazzled and besotted by India. People said the poverty was biblical, and I'm afraid that was my attitude, too. It's terribly easy to get used to someone else's poverty if you're living a middle-class life in it. But after a while, I saw it wasn't possible to accept it, and I also didn't want to.
- Nov 07, 2020
You don't want to give people what they want. Give them something that they didn't know that they wanted.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I meet people, and we can get past small talk pretty quickly if they've read my books. It's a great shortcut.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's hard, when you're someone who likes to please people, as I am, to be a boss. I had to learn how to rein myself in and not terrify people.
- Chef
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- Nov 07, 2020
We in the media have been guilty about not doing a better job of making people understand how really simple cooking is. We've made everyone feel like they have to be a chef.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are so used to eating terrible pancakes, no matter how you mess up, they're going to be great. And if you make fresh orange juice, they'll be over the moon.
- Nov 07, 2020
Anybody who believes Yelp is an idiot. Most people on Yelp have no idea what they're talking about.
- Overcome
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is an almost anti-epicurean tradition at the very base of America. For much of the middle part of American history, people who wanted to overcome that went to France.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens. So I can do that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It makes me actually quite angry to think about people writing about torture with a sort of relish. Horrible.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are still being put into geriatric wards when they don't need it. They need treatment, not just being put into bed and fed.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who have had a stroke and are recovering from it love being read to... especially by someone who is a good reader - it does help them to get better.
- Aspiring
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- Nov 07, 2020