Person Quotes
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Nothing is more condemnable than selfishness. A man who thinks of himself alone is the most unlucky person of all.
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The movies helped define how I should be as a person.
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So many people and institutions are against homosexuals that, as a homosexual, you can't waste your time by trying to convince them that you're a good person.
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The most powerful person in the world is the story teller. The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda of an entire generation that is to come.
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I'm a very colorful person.
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Acceptable rules of conduct were suspended when it came to the spoon shortage. The deficit had gotten so bad that prices were all but unaffordable, and dynastic spoon succession had become a matter of considerable interest. Spoons were even postcode engraved and carried on one's person to eliminate theft, and good table manners, one of the eight pillars upon which the Collective was built, had been relaxed to allow tea to be stirred - shockingly - with the handle of a fork.
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Love is the most necessary of all virtues. Love in the person who preaches the word of God is like fire in a musket. If a person were to throw a bullet with his hands, he would hardly make a dent in anything; but if the person takes the same bullet and ignites some gunpowder behind it, it can kill. It is much the same with the word of God. If it is spoken by someone who is filled with the fire of charity – the fire of love of God and neighbor – it will work wonders.
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The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.
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I try to be a person of faith.
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The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.
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First of all, I'm no better than the next person.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Wonderful thing about novels is that sometimes we read a novel and we know the person in the novel more than we know people in our own lives.
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Pete Rose is the most likable arrogant person I've ever met.
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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 bohemian person. I don't speak German, and I live in a foreign country where all the signs are in German. I did that deliberately. I'm like a ghost. Look at how much media and advertising you're subjected to, this mindless chatter of advertising. I just block it out so effortlessly because it's all a foreign language to me. It's really a good thing for my head, living in Berlin.
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Outside the world of politics, one person in the world of the arts I would mention as an influence is Nick Cave, another person who has been around since the late 1970s. He has developed and changed remarkably, whilst remaining true to his vision. He has been a great help to me as well, without his knowing it.
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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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The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.
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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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The average person would have quit at the first failure. That’s why there have been many average men and only one Edison.
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I fancy myself as being a fairly competent person.
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The person that angers you most, teaches you best
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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.
