Person Quotes
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My mother's five-foot-two, and I'll be honest with you - she's the only person I'm scared of.
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James L.Brooks is just a very original person. So that was definitely the luckiest, most important thing that happened to me meeting him. Then I guess also meeting Ben Stiller. He cast me in the only thing I think I ever auditioned for and got: Cable Guy 1996. And that led to us becoming friends.
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It takes more than a college degree to make one a person of education. Any person who is educated is one who has learned to get whatever he wants in life without violating the rights of others.
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There was a time when someone would get on a plane and request to move their seat just because the person sitting next to them was of a different ethnicity or religion or nationality. But I don't think my generation wants that. That's how it used to be.
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So what does one do if one’s refuge is in another person? or in an institution? or in a way of thinking? or in family life? or in a political view? or in anything which is subject to change, to birth and death?
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Given one has before oneself a strong, healthy, youth rich in spirited blood and a powerless, weak, cachectic old man scarcely capable of breathing. If now the physician wishes to practise the rejuvenating art on the latter, he should make silver tubes which fit into each other: open then the artery of the healthy person and introduce one of the tubes into it and fasten it into the artery; thereupon he opens also the artery of the ill person...
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Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
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When you feel scared, hold someone's hand and look into their eyes. And when you feel brave, do the same thing. You are all here because you are smart. And you are brave. And if you add kindness and the ability to change a tire, you almost make up the perfect person.
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A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task.
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I taught myself to tune in to another person's wavelength, figure out what they were looking for, and try to project that thing back at them.
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As a person, I am not really someone who would intervene and tell you to do the right thing.
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I'm a very real person that has overcome a lot, so I think I'm relatable.
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No person or thing hurting you is worth you hurting yourself.
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The key to teaching anything is to remember what it was like not to understand that thing. That's a very hard thing to do. Every time you come to understand something you didn't understand before, you are transformed. You become a different person from who you were before. The key to teaching someone else to understand that same thing is to remember your former, untransformed self. If you can do that, I think you can teach anything, even physics.
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I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made fo figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently.
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One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.
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When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem.
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Love is eternal – the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and that way, one is more fit for one's work.
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Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
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Little by little a person reaches forty and fifty and sixty, and feels more complete. God could've thrown full blown prophets flying through the cosmos in an instant.
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I don't know if I'd go with an alien to space. I would have to feel the alien's vibe. I'm a vibe person.
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There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.
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A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.
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The only person stopping you from doing something is yourself, and looking for excuses all the time just gets in the way of obtaining your own goals. It's like the writer who keeps getting up and straightening the pictures in the room.
