Persons Quotes
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A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.
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What a thrill to be able to say that you had a contribution in the life of someone - a young person, perhaps, who is trying to take a look at the possibility of their own lives and find out what they are good at and you can help steer their career.
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It's not about you, it's about the next person. The single best use of a business book is to help someone else. Sharing what you read, handing the book to a person who needs it... pushing those around you to get in sync and to take action-that's the main reason it's a book, not a video or a seminar. A book is a souvenir and a container and a motivator and an easily leveraged tool. Hoarding books makes them worth less, not more.
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The characters that I have on Twitter have very little resemblance to me, the person who's writing them.
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I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that person. I have to do him true.
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I'm a very binary person in a bad way where it's like everything is either totally great or totally awful.
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If you're a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it's always shifting.
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I'm not a person who worries too much about what I've done.
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What I discovered was is that it's rare to find a person that you feel very intimate with, and you can sleep with lots of people and not find what you're looking for.
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The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading.
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I mean, it's impossible to fake anything if you've already seen the other person in a way they'd never choose for you to. You can't go back from that.
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I wasn't paid a dime for my track career. But participating in the Olympics gave me the opportunity to learn about different cultures; it made me a better person. I wouldn't trade the time I competed for anything.
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Most persons who indulge in second thought don't do much thinking when the subject is presented for first thought.
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I've always been opposed to groups. I can't believe the doctrine of group is going to work for every single person within the group.
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I'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything.
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To persuade thinking persons in Eastern Europe that Central American Marxists - the Sandinistas, the guerillas in El Salvador - are in absurd and tragic error is not difficult. Poles and Czechs and Hungarians can hardly believe, after what they experienced under socialism, that other human beings would fall for the same bundle of lies, half-truths, and distortions. Sadly, however, illusion is often sweeter to human taste than reality. The last marxist in the world will probably be an American nun.
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I'm a regular person with an extraordinary job.
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I am a completely different person when I am working on different collections.
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The capacity for judgment, to make plans, to choose one’s good, is what we share with other persons. It is what makes us persons.
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Nothing shakes my opinion of a book. Nothing -- nothing. Only perhaps if it's the book of a young person -- or of a friend -- no, even so, I think myself infallible.
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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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Marie Houzelle is a master of the first-person narrative. In Tita she has created a strange, utterly original child whose deadpan certainties are a beguiling invitation to readers of all ages.
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When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.
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I've always been a very sexual person. That doesn't mean I'm going around feeling my breasts and pressing myself against men, but I'm a sexual being.
