Persons Quotes
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I get a lot of shit because I put "I" in the lyrics all the time. The "I" is always for someone else... When I say "I," it's so that when that person is singing along with the song, it empowers them.
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I am my own person. What I'm doing, I'm happy with it. I'm doing what I want to.
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If we always thought like that, why would we study physics, why would we think of cosmology, why would we do any kind of research? Because we know already so much that there is no one person who can contain all that information.
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Some of the best records are the ones that really affect you the most - they're pure emotion and energy, and it's like you're in that person's brain. It's pretty cool.
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Everything you have in your life, you have attracted to yourself because of the way you think, because of the person that you are. You can change your life because you can change the way you think.
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I hate leisure, except reading. I'm really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work.
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Every now and then you have like a realization moment where you get goosebumps and think, "I am literally the luckiest person in the world".
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Every single person has leadership ability. Some step up and take them. Some don't. My answer was to step up and lead.
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I've been living with that all my life. My name is Michael Jordan, so I'm always being compared to a person of greatness.
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When a young person loses faith in his religion because he begins to study science and its methodology it isn't that through the obtaining of real knowledge that he knows it all, but he suddenly realizes that he doesn't know it all.
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In this moment my thoughts go to the many persons he made suffer -- some are still alive, some are dead.
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I had discovered that there was something more painful than falling in love with someone who hasn't fallen for you; hurting that person-hurting him and not being able to do anything about it.
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Every story, each poem that a person shares, each voice that speaks against menstrual taboo, inspires me.
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Good improvisers seem telepathic; everything looks pre-arranged, This is because they accept all offers made—which is something no ‘normal’ person would do.
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Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in the expectation that those who have had a virtuous moral upbringing will respond, yet he is bound to impose chastisement and penalties on the disobedient and ill-conditioned, and to banish the incorrigible out of the state altogether. For (they argue) although the virtuous man, who guides his life by moral ideals, will be obedient to reason, the base, whose desires are fixed on pleasure, must be chastised by pain, like a beast of burden.
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When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive.
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If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?
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A person's greatness is that which makes him/her equal to others
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When your life changes and you become a more public person, in some ways you need to be a more closed person, you know?
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The only really weird part for me was making sense of the person on the TV at the same time as the person who I am friendly with and do something so friend-intimate with as text.
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I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by Yasiin since '99. At first it was just for friends and family, but now I'm declaring it openly.
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I'll always be fascinated with radio. Radio allows you to have a one-to-one relationship with the person sharing the music with you. You can also do very many things if you're listening to the radio, things you can't so if you're watching TV or watching a phone.
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Respect...is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique.
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A Nation... is a group of persons united by a common error about their ancestry, and a common dislike of their neighbors
