- Mirror
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My wife and I don't have kids and people are down on us about it. But we're just not wired that way, so don't tell me I have to.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hard thing is getting people to come to the theater to see something, no matter if it's good or not.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the day, successful box office just means that more people saw what you did and liked it, and that to me is the most important thing. That a lot of people saw it and liked it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not looking for people to bow down to me or do things in my name or even pass around a collection plate for me. I say that I'd like to be God for a while because He really can get away with anything. I mean, ANYTHING.
- Good People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do things and work with good people.
- Entertainment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hey, I'm like the Wayne Gretsky of the entertainment biz - I have other people do my dirty work while I skate around and get to be a nice guy. What can I say? I'm a coward.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
People don't like to be nagged. When people nag us, we instantly resist, but when the facts force us in that same direction, we instantly adapt.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually went on a vegan diet. So I was nagging myself there. I don't nag other people about it. It was sort of an interesting experiment, and I found it wasn't that hard at all.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to write a book that would have people talking, theorizing, arguing.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable, but it fails to capture the public's imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really focus on process as much as anything else: process for how we evaluate players, process for how we make decisions, process even for how we hire people internally, process for how we go about integrating our scouting reports with guys watching tape in the office.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got into baseball, and everyone just started calling me a geek, like, 'There's the nerd from Harvard.' Then it took 20 years of working in baseball and me actually leaving and going to football for people to say, 'He's the baseball guy.' So maybe at some point I'll be known as a football guy too.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
In disciplines as disparate as baseball, financial services, trucking and retail, people are realizing the power of data to help make better decisions.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you have to remind people you're the boss, I don't think you're going to be a very effective leader.
- Behind
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's one thing to be able to analyze something. It's another to implement it or execute on a vision or even to get a whole bunch of people to rally behind it.
- Dearer
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- Nov 07, 2020
There must be a rule of thumb in pop-culture archaeology that states that the allure of any topic is inversely related to its assigned importance in the affairs of humanity. The more trivial the subject, the dearer it is to most of its partisans and the more worthy of scholarship. The smallest things in life often mean the most to people.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020