- Business
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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
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm happy to do interviews from time to time, but I don't find them that necessary - and that hasn't seemed to have affected people's understanding of our work.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love how most people in 'Sixteen Candles' don't actually look their age. It adds to the movie's funky and low-budget vibe.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think people realize what it's like for people of color to audition for film and TV.
- Nov 07, 2020
Feminism is being broken open, to welcome more people than just white women of a certain class.
- Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to believe in yourself and only trust your own vision and instincts. If I'd listened to what other people thought about my work in the first 10 years that I was a writer, I never would have made it to begin with.
- Teach
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would be very, very uncomfortable at teaching, at dreaming to teach, people things.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Phoenix is an interesting example. Drive around and see the golf courses everywhere, and you see people's big green lawns. And you live in a desert! I've always remarked about the capacity of human beings to look at somewhere and move there because of its uniqueness and its beauty and then change it.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to elementary school in L.A. I was born in L.A. My mother was from Redondo Beach. My father was French. He died six months before I was born, so my mother went home. I was born there. Not the childhood that most people think. Middle-class, raised by my mother. Single mom.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up with my father's legacy, we never felt that we had to do anything, but we were always raised to think: What could be better than to explore the wonders of the world and share that with people? To try and make the world a better place. And I guess it stuck.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
I travel all over the country speaking to young people, and I am always amazed at how engaged in environmental conservation they are.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather pioneered exploration of what he called 'our water planet,' then my father sought to understand the human connection, and now, as part of the third generation, I'm dedicated to not only raising awareness but also to empowering people to take action.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since oceans are the life support system of our planet, regulating the climate, providing most of our oxygen and feeding over a billion people, what's bad for oceans is bad for us - very bad.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Helping people understand the impact of key environmental and human issues worldwide is something that I'm passionate about. CNN's 'Going Green' series of specials are engaging viewers around the world through important messages of conservation and hope.
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020