- 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
- Try
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think freedom for Palestine could be an incredible source of hope to people struggling all over the world. I think it could also be an incredible inspiration to Arab people in the Middle East, who are struggling under undemocratic regimes which the U.S. supports.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't encounter it that often. You have to be far from civilization, you have to be far from New York or London to find people who do that.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have absolutely no concept of work, except for university. But I like to talk to people a lot about their jobs.
- Early Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It was as though I had been brainwashed, taken over by a cult religion. And yet this cult, motherhood, was not a place where I could actually live. Like any cult, it demanded a complete surrender of identity to belong to it.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people are better at maths than others: no one thinks you can be 'taught' to be a mathematical genius. And no one thinks of teaching, in that context, as a kind of forcing of the will. But there seems to be an idea of writing as an intuitive pastime which is being dishonestly subjected to counterintuitive methods.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politicians make mistakes. People misspeak in public. God knows I have proven both. A lot.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
As for body-shaming, there will always be people who will love chubby people and those who will dislike them.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Praise is good. Some people over-praise, though. Genuine appreciation is rare to come by.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are over 1 million refugees in Lebanon, a country of 4 million people. How do we solve that? I have no idea. What's going on, I really don't know.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional - and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020