Persons Quotes
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Twenty thousand years ago the family was the social unit. Now the social unit has become the world, in which it may truthfully be said that each person's welfare affects that of every other.
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I am a huge Leonard Cohen person.
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Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood can arise through the little ways in which we resist the pull. Our status is backed by the solid buildings of the world, while our sense of personal identity often resides in the cracks
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Shirley Sherrod seems like a good and dedicated person.
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Too many of us seem far too fond of narratives of our powerlessness, maybe because powerlessness lets us off the hook... But we don't need everyone on board; we don't need one magic person in office; we need ourselves. To act. It's the wind, not the weathervanes.
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I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral.
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It's kind of weird, because I look at myself as just a normal person. My friends get rejected all the time, so why shouldn't I? I don't think I'm anything special.
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When marriage exposes a person's selfishness and sins it's doing what it is meant to do: bringing our sins and wounds to light so we can recognize them, confess them, and begin the healing process.
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I admire people who are very successful. But if that success has been achieved through too much ruthlessness, then I may admire that person, but I can't respect him.
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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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As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not.
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There is nothing wrong with being the most important person under the sun if everybody else is just as important as you are.
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I am an honest, God-fearing man who is intensely dedicated to being the best person I can be on and off the football field.
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Every team doesn't fit every person's style of play.
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If you’re famous, I don’t — for the life of me — I don’t understand why any famous person would ever be on Twitter. Why on God’s green earth would you be on Twitter? Because first of all, the worst thing you can do is make yourself more available, right?
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Perhaps we always want the person we love, to have the existence of a ghost.
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I have to admit, in the end, I like to surrender to someone; the person I love.
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Normally I'm not like a big TV person. I never use my DVR.
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My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.
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I used to be the youngest person on the set [of Bored To Death]. Now I'm very often the oldest person on the set. I feel lucky about that, to be honest. Lena [Dunham], by the way is a doll to me. So much fun to work with and really open.
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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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We are not a monolithic group of individuals, not every single person believes the exact same thing.
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And while it is hard enough to take away something that makes a person happy it's even more difficult when it seems like it's the only thing.
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In every circle of friends there's always that one person everyone secretly hates. Don't have one? Then it's probably you.
