- Dalai
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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
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am often struck by the anxious inferiority many well-educated British people display towards the U.S., particularly Londoners dazzled by New York, when many postcolonials are accustomed to regarding Britain's old imperial cosmopolis as the true capital of the western world.
- Strong
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- Nov 07, 2020
Britain's unique success as an industrialised nation-state prompted strong imitative endeavours not only across Europe, but also in Asia. Now many people, who were once humiliated into a sense of nationality by British rule, loom larger than their former masters.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had never thought that so many people would know me, will talk about me, and most of all, I will be given a National Award.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way people express themselves online, that's also how they express themselves in the real world.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that the Chinese people as a whole love to make investments in real estate.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
People don't actually stay still, you know - when their area is a disaster, they go somewhere else, right? And that's just a natural human impulse.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think inherently, a little bit, I'm a bit of a pleaser, and I want people to like me and be nice, and to not ruffle feathers and just make everybody happy and stuff. It's a personality flaw.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an author, you're really grateful for the people who are supporting you, but on some other level, that can be a dangerous echo chamber.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know people who have gone into career death spins, and that's something you're always aware of as a writer.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
- Europe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Europe - with hundreds of millions of people - can accept hundreds of thousands of migrants.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the best things I get to do is meet people that have been to the shows and listened to the music. I still don't indulge in the social media side of things, so that's my way of starting conversations - actually hearing people talk.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020