- Like
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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
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing's ever easy about composing for other people's projects, but I like it. I've been lucky to have worked with adventurous directors who trust me.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people talk about how parameters can generate really good work, there's no better example than working within a genre in film. That's like the ultimate parameter.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people say 'Charlie Chaplin' I still think now of the guy in the moustache and bowler hat and funny walk - I don't think of an old man who was my grandfather.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother doesn't have much of a social life with other A-list people. Which in a way I'm very grateful for, because if I do make something of my career I will be able to say it wasn't because I was a Chaplin.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to go through auditions, and my surname has got me into rooms, but I'll never know if it gets me any jobs. There's a lot of sexism and objectification, and a lot of people put you down.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have two younger brothers, and I know my parents have spoken to them about driving and interacting with police. They didn't have those conversations with me, but they did have conversations about being exceptional black people.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black people, we are fully deserving of the room and space to fully express our humanity. This is what Black Lives Matter is truly about.
- Devalued
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's really important that we understand the ways in which blackness plays out, right, and discrimination against black people impacts different communities in different ways but ultimately leaves them undermined and really devalued in our society.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think about issues like climate change, and how six of the 10 worst impacted nations by climate change are actually on the continent of Africa. People are reeling from all sorts of unnatural disasters, displacing them from their ancestral homes and leaving them without a chance at making a decent living.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black Lives Matter is really an affirmation for our people. It's a love note for our people, but it's also a demand. We know that the system was not designed for justice for us.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We deserve to live in a world where there's no impunity, but beyond this question of impunity, there are all these structures that are actually doing a disservice to our people.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black Lives Matter has been viral, and people are taking it, appropriating it, and using it however they see fit.
- Chipping
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of the concessions that leading Democrats seem willing to make - from cutting diversity visas to chipping away at family visas - would be made on the backs of black immigrants, people from Africa and the Caribbean who deserve these policies to remain intact as some of the few legal tools they have to immigrate to this country.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we are oftentimes reminding people of is the fact that the history of police in the U.S. was that they were slave patrols. They were quite literally created in order to capture enslaved Africans.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Knowing that there is a community of people on every corner of this planet that believes in justice, that is willing to sacrifice, and that is willing to take a stand is the most heartening thing.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must create a committee to address the long-standing discrimination against black people in America.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know that there are people in our nation, black people, who are systematically being disenfranchised in a number of spheres in our lives.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020