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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We have a couple of dogs, but I wouldn't describe myself as an animal person.
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Write to one person, not a million.
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Every time we focus on someone else's darkness, we are blocking our own view of the light. We think the person we are involved with has attacked us or has withheld love from us, when they really haven't. We focus on their guilt instead of their innocence. Frequently people are just being themselves and we start projecting our own childhood dramas onto them, pushing away the very love we want so much.
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Not raising the debt ceiling does not trigger a default, because we've got enough money to service our debts. Default is when you can't service your debt.
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Training is the key to keep people from getting hurt.
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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?
