Persons Quotes
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If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism.
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If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.
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I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.
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Despite his [Artie Shaw's] affectations of reclusiveness, he never tired of talking about himself, as countless long interviews reveal. I do not recall an anecdote he ever told me that was not in some way intended to convey a sense of his own superiority to everyone. . One wonders how a person of his character could produce such beauty.
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Did the Prime Minister have some sort of grudge against you by sending this publicity crazed person into your Department?
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Ironing is comfort. It's control. I'm a nutty person who likes to make sure everything is in its place.
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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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One of my goals is to inspire everyone I meet to become a better person.
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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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The person who gets hired is not necessarily the one who can do that job best; but, the one who knows the most about how to get hired.
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If I'm afraid of someone on the street, I'll turn to him (it's always a boy) and say, "Excuse me, do you happen to know what time it is?" This is my way of saying to the person, "I see you as a friend, and there is no need to hurt me or take my stuff. Also, I don't even have a watch and I am probably not worth mugging." So far, it's worked like gangbusters... And I've discovered that most people I'm afraid of are actually very friendly.
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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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Most forgers are caught because they tell the wrong person about what they do.
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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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Once you really love a person and, if you want to be in a committed relationship the games need to stop. I mean, you can find some other games to play.
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But ignorance of the law is no excuse. A person is guilty even if he breaks the law unknowingly. I shall be perhaps the first of the defendants to get up on that stand and admit that I am at least partly guilty.
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Life wanted faces that would express what we wanted to tell. Not just the unusual or striking face, but the face that would speak out the message from the printed page. I am always looking for some typical person or face that will tie the picture essay together in a human way.
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The richest persons are those who give most in service to others.
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As a young person, I wanted everyone to agree with me.
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We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying to be a better person or whatever.
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I always tell my employees, the busier it gets, the slower you should cook. When you run around like a crazy person, that's when things go wrong.
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Very often we don’t go elsewhere because we are looking for another person. We go elsewhere because we are looking for another self. It isn’t so much that we want to leave the person we are with as we want to leave the person we have become.
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And Donald Trump? That man literally has people shouting the n word at his rallies and he doesn't address it, which is astounding to me. He's a terrible person.
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Logic should no longer be considered an elegant and learned accomplishment; it should take its place as an indispensable study for every well-informed person.
