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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
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not conventionally religious, but I am an ongoing student of the Old and the New Testament and the history of the Jewish people and the birth of Christianity.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people ask me if I have worked for the C.I.A., I often answer: what good to you is my answer? Because if I did, I might not say so.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Books guided my life from high school, and the greatest, most interesting, most provocative, funniest, smartest people who ever lived in the last 200 or 300 years wrote those books. I would fall in love with Victor Hugo and read not just 'Les Miserables,' but 'Bug-Jargal' and 'The Toilers of the Sea' and so forth.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are certain families who absolutely incorporate their nanny as part of the family, and there are other people, and there are codes for this, when they call in, they say, 'I am really not looking for a friend.' It is clear they will not be members of the family.
- Conversation
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a cliche that probably has some anecdotal evidence on the side that comedians are very depressed people, but that's because no one is ever going to seem as funny in a normal conversation as compared to when they're up there onstage in the spotlight making a huge audience keel over with laughter.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I'm pleased and proud of the respect of my peers, and that when I disappear from the scene or from this earth, I will have left a mark. They'll say, 'He did it well.' I like being funny; it opens people up.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the priesthood. That immigrant Jewish humor is still with us.
- Who
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're running businesses anywhere in the world, people who really do well are the people who have mental toughness.
- Good People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to hire good people and let them do their job and don't question how they do things.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to stay very busy. I basically work seven days a week. I try to do new things, to meet new people.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not comfortable discussing politics publicly; I am very comfortable talking about my friendships with people who happen to be in politics.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020