Person Quotes
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The concept of a mental state is primarily the concept of a state of the person apt for bringing about a certain sort of behaviour.
David Malet Armstrong
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My own take on the word "transgender" is that it's an umbrella term for anyone who breaks any rules, laws, guidelines or protocol of gender. So, to really be an ally, it's important that you recognize and embrace your own transgender nature. Really, I haven't met a single person who doesn't break some rule of gender. In other words, we will assimilate you. Resistance is futile.
Kate Bornstein
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I don't go to church, and I don't know one person who does. Fifteen years ago, I didn't know one person who didn't.
Brian Kenny
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A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The intelligent person is not one who merely knows what is good and what is bad. The intelligent person is one who, when he sees what is good, follows it, and when he sees evil, shuns it.
Abu Nu`aym
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I’m the type of person that tries to fall back asleep in the morning just to finish a dream.
Marilyn Monroe
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When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.
Aimee Friedman
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If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.
Ben Affleck
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Folk are just folk, wherever you go, and it's only a nasty sort of person who thinks a body's a devil just because they come from another country and have different notions
Catherynne M. Valente
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I began by acting like the person I wanted to be, and eventually I became that person.
Cary Grant
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I think you need a really strong businessperson running the state, a person who's used to turning negatives into positives, which is what happens in business.
Mike Curb
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Every one of us every day has choices to make about the kind of person we are and what we wish to become. You can decide to be someone who brings people together, or you can fall prey to those who wish to divide us. You can be someone who educates yourself, or you can believe that being negative is clever and being cynical is fashionable. You have a choice.
Hillary Clinton
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I spent more time playing a person I was not than the person I am.
Sarah Jessica Parker
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After a while, the person who knows the character best is you, the actor.
Susan Kelechi Watson
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If a person’s inclined to look for something, he finds it wherever he looks. Even if there’s no trace of it at all, he still finds clear evidence. Even if there’s not even a shadow, still he sees not only a shadow of what he’s looking for but everything he’s looking for. He sees it in the most unmistakable terms, and these terms become clearer with each new glance and every new thought.
Nikolay Chernyshevsky
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We may compare the Bible to the Old Testament Tabernacle in the wilderness with its three courts. The outer court is the letter of the Scriptures; the inner court, or holy place, is the truth of the Scriptures; the holiest place of all is the person of Jesus Christ; and only when we pass the inmost veil do we come to Him.
Arthur Tappan Pierson
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I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.
Nicholas Sparks
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Only a weak person needed someone else around all the time.
Sarah Dessen
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Nevertheless, hateful as saying 'No' always is to an imaginative person, and certain as the offence may be that it will cause to individuals whose own work does not require isolated effort, the writer who is engaged on a book must learn to say it. He must say it consistently to all interrupters; to the numerous callers and correspondents who want him to speak, open bazaars, see them for 'only' ten minutes, attend literary parties, put people up, or read, correct and find publishers for semi-literate manuscripts by his personal friends.
Vera Brittain
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I'm a 'what if' person. I have always felt that failure was a completely underrated experience. I have taken blows. I have had high moments. But I don't think the blows have ever hardened me. My enthusiasms are still big.
Kevin Costner
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What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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When two people meet, as long as there is any form of rapport maintained, the person with the most certainty will eventually influence ther other person.
Anthony Robbins
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To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.
Thomas A. Edison
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It is incumbent upon every person of every description to contribute to his country's welfare.
George Washington