- My Life
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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
- Skin
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- Nov 07, 2020
We evolved living in more sunlight than today. We make our own vitamin D when sunlight hits our skin cells. Many people living in the northern hemisphere, however, suffer from lower levels of vitamin D during the fall, winter and spring.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods, oil spills and radioactive fallout cause massive death of people, pigs, bats and birds. These disasters also impact the immune health of survivors. All harbor viruses.
- Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a difference between standing up and telling people what you're planning to do and standing up and going and accomplishing something.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doing my art came out of something very solitary and something that I had no intention of showing anybody, and yet once people saw pieces in my house, it became really clear that there was a great demand for my art.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people are doing something about their weight, but by their own reckoning, it isn't enough to get the results they want.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction, and I don't think that is the case now. And it's a place where people still kid themselves - you know, in a few years this will happen or that will happen. Well, it's not going to happen. It's never going to happen.
- Nov 07, 2020
People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.
- Humble
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people I've known who've done great things of that type - you know, building hospitals, running schools - are very humble people. They give their lives to the project.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate vacations. I hate them. I have no fun on them. I get nothing done. People sit and relax, but I don't want to relax. I want to see something.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020