Persons Quotes
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When I write I try as far as possible to forget I'm writing it at all. I tell it down onto the page, as if I'm telling it to one person only, my best friend.
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The reason I say I'm a horrible person is I don't want myself to be presented as somebody who's a great Catholic.
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The first person you have to resurrect is yourself
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Slavery is what slavery's always been: About one person controlling another person using violence and then exploiting them economically, paying them nothing. That's what slavery's about
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What you want in a mentor is someone who truly cares for you and who will look after your interests and not just their own. When you do come across the right person to mentor you, start by showing them that the time they spend with you is worthwhile.
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I was hoping to do an impressionist painting, but I wanted a good likeness and I wanted to create a feeling of the lady as a person, as a human being rather than as a figurehead for the monarchy and a pomp-and-circumstance sort of formal portrait. I wanted more of a relaxed portrait.
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A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
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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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Even among the married, sexual satisfaction must not be sought in a way which disregards man's character as a person and degrades him to the animal level.
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Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.
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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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A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
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I'm such a private person, and sexuality is such a private thing. A sex scene is much harder than a fight scene. It's one thing to say, 'Kick higher,' but 'Kiss harder' - that's just crazy.
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Forgive the person who has caused the most pain in your life and it will make you feel better.
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I went into Harvard one way and came out a different person... It's the air at Harvard; it's like a Renaissance court.
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Perhaps we always want the person we love, to have the existence of a ghost.
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A person's greatness is that which makes him/her equal to others
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Many of my personal enemies picture me as a cold type - a person who acts according to a certain line, a calculating type.
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Sure, I'm an optimistic, joyous person, but I'm also afraid and insecure.
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I wouldn't wish any specific thing for any specific person - it's none of my business. But the idea that a four-year degree is the only path to worthwhile knowledge is insane. It's insane.
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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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Now you, as a young person, may have no faith in your country, or in your church, or in your family. But you can still have faith in an ideal. If you have an ideal in front of you, you will never get lost on the journey of life. It is, after all, the journey that matters.
