Individual Quotes
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Lyndon Johnson is still the most formidable, fascinating, frustrating, irritating individual I think I've ever known in my entire life. He was huge, a huge character, not only standing six feet four, but when you talked to him, he violated the normal human space between people. He was a great storyteller. The problem was that half his stories, I discovered, weren't true.
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Economic disasters or foolish wars are hardly guaranteed to bring about large-scale individual self-examination or renew the appeal of truly participatory democracy.
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If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.
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Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.
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Anything that shifts power from the individual judgment of free citizens to government is a bad thing.
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I'm growing as an individual, but your always growing. All of my albums are snapshots of where I am artistically.
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The first act of insight is throw away the labels. In fiction, while we do not necessarily write about ourselves, we write out of ourselves, using ourselves; what we learn from, what we are sensitive to, what we feel strongly about--these become our characters and go to make our plots. Characters in fiction are conceived from within, and they have, accordingly, their own interior life; they are individuals every time.
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What's really important? That I'm an individual, I guess. I am an individual - a strong one, too. I'm Natalie Cole. I gotta be me.
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We know that permanent sobriety can be attained only by a most revolutionary change in the life and outlook of the individual.
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Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
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All things are parts of one single system, which is called nature; the individual life is good when it is in harmony with nature.
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Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.
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My family, in a way, gives me a reference as to who I am as an individual, and my work gives me a reference as to who I am as a Homo sapiens. I think that's a very perfect match, in my view.
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To become conscious of this power is to become a 'live wire.' The universe is the live wire. It carries power sufficient to meet every situation in the life of every individual. When the individual mind touches the universal mind, it receives all its power.
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Since I was little, it was instilled in me to conserve water. In terms of what can you do as an individual, it's an easy issue to get behind.
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The prime minister is not a private individual, but the leader of the Jewish State and the Jewish world as a whole.
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Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.
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Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".
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Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.
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The Seventeenth Amendment serves not the public's interest but the interests of the governing masterminds and their disciples. Its early proponents advanced it not because they championed 'democracy' or the individual, but because they knew it would be one of several important mechanisms for empowering the federal government and unraveling constitutional republicanism.
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Crime against the individual is the equivalent of crime against humanity.
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Nobody owes anybody anything; it's up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.
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I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.
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The individual with a negative mental attitude attracts troubles as a magnet attracts steel fittings.
