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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You know, I've done this show for six years, and this could be the first time that I had a person that actually got no points, and I think it's a damn fine way to go out. I thought I was a loser until you walked up here; you made me feel like a man.
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I fancy myself as being a fairly competent person.
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But when we find that one person who completes us, we don't give up. No matter how bad we screw up. We make it right.
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The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.
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I am a total me, me, Me person.
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The poorest person is not one without a dollar but one without a dream.
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I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.
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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.
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I don't know how to not become every person I walk by.
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Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, 'Who do you think you are?'
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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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When I watch a guy I know is a big Republican, part of me thinks I probably wouldn't like this person if I met him, or we would have different opinions.
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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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While I have often said that all men out to be free, yet I would allow those colored persons to be slaves who want to be; and next to them those white persons who argue in favor of making other people slaves. I am in favor of giving an opportunity to such white men to try it on for themselves.
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It is so rare...to find a complete person, with a soul, a heart and an imagination; so rare for characters as ardent and restless as ours to meet and to be matched together, that I hardly know how to tell you what happiness it gives me to know you.
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There's this general craving-and-desire system that's engaged, only in this case the desire isn't for money or a drug or power or freedom. The desire is for merging with another person.
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He's a special person. No one knows how fair and ethical a person he is unless you've been around him. He has the highest degree of integrity. I'm glad he's staying around the state. I just wish I could see him win one (state championship).
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First of all, I'm no better than the next person.
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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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Documentaries were necessary for my growth as a person. I grew up very sheltered and it was a form of expressing myself.
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What sort of person says that he or she wants to be polished and pure, then complains about being handled roughly?
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I come to writing from hearing great stories as a child in Louisiana, where the mark of a person was his or her ability to be a raconteur. I also come to writing as a professional actress whose body has been trained to listen and smell and inhabit characters without judgment.
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But first be a person who needs people. People who need people are the luckiest people in the world.
