Elizabeth Madox Roberts Quotes
First, there is the person one thinks he is and the appearance one thinks he has. Then there is the thing one actually is, and there is that which the others think, and here a myriad-faced being arose in her thought, but the second came back as being more difficult to know, for what eyes would see it and where would it stay?
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
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I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.
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I wish I was a wealthy person. I wish I could self-fund.
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A powerful person is equally cool with their flaws and things that aren't powerful about them at all.
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Well, first of all, I'm an incredibly gullible person - I'm so bad that when I said that to someone, my friend said, 'You know, 'gullible' isn't even in the dictionary.' And I said, 'Really?' As I was saying 'Really?' I will acknowledge that I then realized what was happening, but that's how bad I am.
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I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person.
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I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.
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I'm not really the type of person who wears my heart on my sleeve. I keep everything inside.
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I am just a quiet reclusive person who has managed to hang around for a while.
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When I was a teenager, my idol was the Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff. He's the only person I've ever asked for an autograph.
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The person who is bent on killing you will follow you wherever you are.
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If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.
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I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.
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Can any sane person say that before something comes on the Net you must screen it? How can there be pre-screening?
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I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.
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I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.
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I'm the kind of person who always wants more.
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I'm a person who tries not to have regrets.
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It is a terrible commentary on Christian civilization that the longest period of slave-raiding known to history was initiated by the action of Spain, Portugal, France, Holland and Britain, after the Christian faith had for more than a thousand years been the established religion of Europe.
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The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.
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There is absolutely nothing that you desire that you cannot achieve.
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First, there is the person one thinks he is and the appearance one thinks he has. Then there is the thing one actually is, and there is that which the others think, and here a myriad-faced being arose in her thought, but the second came back as being more difficult to know, for what eyes would see it and where would it stay?
