- 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
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
The job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but a lot of my interests are in politics so I’m going to use that.
- Take
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- Nov 07, 2020
I’m interested in offence and why people take offence in certain ways about certain things.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I’ve stopped doing is going out of my way to make people feel OK about their mistakes.
- Glow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spend a lot of time bathing in a glow of consensus but you also have to be willing to say something to people who might not agree with you and take the consequences of what follows.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the event of a Mad Max-style post-apocalyptic dystopia, people with supplies of food and water could become warlords or chieftains in the social order that emerges out of the rubble.
- Celebrate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really know what 'American' is. I know what Ukrainian is. We're happy Slavic people. We're not Dostoyevsky Slavic people. There's this sense of 'pick it up, get your hands dirty, make the best of it, celebrate.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 3, I recited a poem at a festival in Passaic, New Jersey. The applause was tremendous, and it hit me that I could affect people positively by performing.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right.
- Angry
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- Nov 07, 2020
The murder of my husband by the railways has altered the way I think about everything. I had always thought that the majority of people were decent and honourable. In the wake of the crash, what made me angry more than anything else was the realisation that this was not true. I still find it very hard to come to terms with.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are going to make companies, corporations, actually responsible for the safety of other people's lives, then if they fail in their duty, the only thing to prevent them failing in their duty is the fear that they would be put behind bars.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020