- 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
- Waiting
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- Nov 07, 2020
You've got a lot of very, very smart people standing by waiting for somebody else to do the work. Not a recipe for long-term solvency in my opinion.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every bad joke, every endorsement deal, all of the things that a typical host would normally get creamed for, people don't mind, because they know I don't cheat when it comes to the work I actually try. I'm a lab rat. I'm a perpetual apprentice. The joke is on me if there is one.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Forty years ago, we were on the tail of the Front Page era. There was a different point of view. Reporters and editors were more forgiving of public people. They didn't think they had to stick someone in jail to make a career.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gold Gloves are nice to have people mention. They're basically saying you're a pretty good defensive player along with everything else. But I was about the offensive side.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People ask me to record their answering machines all the time. I love it. It's a miracle to me that people want to hear back those characters.
- Fleeing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939 and you're a Jew, you don't think so much about relationships. People didn't have a lot of divorces during the Holocaust, for instance.
- Nov 07, 2020
You want to make money, remake 'Cinderella.' You want to move people, remake the Hippolytus and Phaedra myth.
- Kindness
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- Nov 07, 2020
The degree to which you're peculiar and different is the degree to which you must learn to hear people thinking. Just in self-defense you have to learn, where is their kindness? Where is their danger? Where is their generosity?
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm at a point now where I crave healthy musical environments, where there is a genuine exchange of ideas without repressed envy or resentment, and where people in the band want to be there regardless of what public accolades may come their way. Unfortunately, Mr. Bungle was not one of those places.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are reasons that bands and musicians make demos and outtakes - because they are not good enough to make the record. A lot of people forget that.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
People in both parties are restless for change, ready to break free of old patterns in Washington.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020