Persons Quotes
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childhood was not a time in a person's life, but a country, a country under siege, from which certain individuals were taken too soon and never allowed to return. All people were exiled eventually, but whatever happened to them there marked them all their days.
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In romance or friendship, what's important is how much you love the other person.
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Black people have been killed for directing their gaze at the wrong person. I want my subjects to reclaim their right to look, to see, to be seen.
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In general, I think I'm a very private person. But I also love human beings.
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What is love? Love is when one person knows all of your secrets, deepest, darkest, most dreadful secrets of which no one else in the world knows. And yet in the end, that one person does not think any less of you.
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When a black person has no electricity, no water, they call it the ghetto. When white people have no electricity and no water, they call it camping.
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One quality in a person doesn't rule out any other quality. They can exist side by side, good and terrible. Socrates said it a lot better.
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With doing the movies I've done I don't think I would be half the person I am today.
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God knows what each one of us is dealing with. He knows our pressures. He knows our conflicts. And He has made a provision for each and every one of them. That provision is Himself in the person of the Holy Spirit, indwelling us and empowering us to respond rightly.
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I'm a regular person with an extraordinary job.
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I thank you all and here dismiss you all, and to the love and favor of my country commit myself, my person, and the cause.
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To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice.
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If the architecture is any good, a person who looks and listens will feel its good effects without noticing.
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I've learned to deal with stress. In fact, things that would make the next person go over a cliff don't even make my radar anymore.
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She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.
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My dad is the type of person that says yes to life, and to the adventures it throws at you. Because of that, he never forced me into a particular career, or had wild expectations for me; his concern was simply that I was fulfilled and happy.
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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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Real people are places to me as much as persons: I want to see them, as I want to see the places I am fond of, in all weathers and at all times of the year.
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I'm a really trusting person and I always have been. I just think I've cultivated a very keen skill of recognising someone I shouldn't trust, pretty readily. A person has about 15 to 27 seconds before I'm pretty sure whether or not I can trust them or not.
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There are persons who rise through grief and there are persons who fall because of grief.
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I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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When you speak a foreign language, you become someone else. If you aren't used to speaking a language, and you start speaking it again, for the first few sentences you'll find yourself in very strange shape, because you're still the person who was speaking the first language. But if you keep speaking that language, you will become the person who corresponds to it.
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But at least this got Mouth thinking about how his loneliness wasn't unique. We all suffered. And I guess we all had good times too. Man - if every person who ever felt lonely killed himself, the world would be littered with corpses. And far lonelier.
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If you tell a lie to make a person better, then that is not a sin.
