Person Quotes
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What was a person, if not the things they knew and the face they wore?
Catherynne M. Valente
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I'm much too modest a person.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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No person with a grievance can be also a person with an attractive personality!
Napoleon Hill
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I used to be a thing; I'm a person now.
Lesley Lawson
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Anwar Sadat once said that if you see a good person with admirable qualities, try to adapt those qualities to yourself, and he was such a great man.
Harry Hamlin
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Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory normal person + anonymity + audience = total fuckwad
Christian Rudder
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A person does not choose his or her fate; he or she only fulfills it. We are bound by our fate as long as we accept the values that determine it.
Alexander Lowen
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There is no paycheck that can equal the feeling of contentment that comes from being the person you are meant to be.
Oprah Winfrey
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There's nothing I'm doing to my body that a regular person is not doing to theirs outside of just running into somebody at full speed.
Ray Lewis
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What time he can spare from the adornment of his person he devotes to the neglect of his duties.
William Hepworth Thompson
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The jam stuff doesn't appeal to me in general. My newfound love for the Dead came from Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia's songwriting, not the elaborate guitar solos. I'm a song person. Once it starts to break out of that structure and become loopy, it's uninteresting to me.
Colin Meloy
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This person realizes that staying home means blowing off everyone this person has ever known. But the desire to stay in is very strong. This person wants to run a bath and then read in bed.
Miranda July
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You can't go into the office and be a jerk. You can't yell at your kids or your wife or your husband for no reason. That makes you a terrible person.
Chuck Klosterman
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The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process.
Wallace Stegner
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I wanna hear it, I wanna hear it from each and every one of you. I wanna hear it from the kids, the men, the women. I wanna hear it from every single person in this arena. I want you to stand up out of your seat, I want you to get up and do what you should have done a long time ago! I want you to admit that you were wrong! All of you! You all were wrong! Each and every single one of you! I made it!
Michael Gregory Mizanin
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A person who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he or she ought only to consider whether in doing anything he or she is doing right or wrong- acting the part of a good person or a bad person.
Plato
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A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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In my opinion, it helps enormously to know why something is true, rather than being told it is true, for why should you believe me? Never believe anything on the authority of a single person but seek confirmation - and reason is the best confirmation.
Dennis Lindley
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A person demonstrates their maturity by what they pay attention to in the world.
Etsko Schuitema
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I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.
Walt Whitman
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The person most in control is the person who can give up control.
Fritz Perls
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A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either.
Alfred Binet
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Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.
Socrates
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Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those little kidnaps in the dark. And then the luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of them that hangs in your mind when you turn back to the page you were trying to translate.
Anne Carson